Religion

Lucknow: Sambhal, in Uttar Pradesh, where communal violence broke out last November over a court-ordered survey of a mosque, is once again in the news. An advisory banning Eid prayers on...

New Delhi: India has slammed the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for suggesting that minorities were facing deteriorating treatment in the country. Calling it “biased and politically motivated”,...

Lucknow: Four months after violence erupted in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal over a court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid, president of the mosque committee Advocate Zafar Ali was arrested on...

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said on Friday that only Hindus should be employed at the Tirumala Temple in Tirupati. The ‘diktat’ of the chief minister, who...

New Delhi: Religious fanaticism can lead to intolerance, and even violence. A Muslim cleric who had recently called Mohammed Shami a ‘criminal’ for not observing roza (fasting) during Ramzan, has now...

Kolkata: With just about a year left for the Assembly elections in West Bengal, the issue of religion seems to have taken the political scenario in the state by storm....

New Delhi: Mohammed Shami has had his fair share of controversies, over religion and his troubled marriage. Now, the Team India pacer has been labelled “a criminal” by All India...

Dhaka: There is no end to atrocities against Hindus and other minority communities in Bangladesh. In the latest attack, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) alleged on Saturday that its...

Amritsar: Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of Sikhs, has imposed penalties on Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal and other leaders for some of their actions when...

Allahabad: A Hindu religious body, Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad, has reportedly demanded that no shops be allotted to ‘non-Hindus’ in the Mahakumbh Mela area in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj. The fair...