KARNATAKA: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claims that the state’s Congress-led government had transferred reservations meant for backward classes and Dalits to the Muslim community, calling the remark a “blatant lie”. A day earlier, the prime minister has said at an election
NEW DELHI: India's main opposition Congress party has said that it would guarantee paid apprenticeships to every graduate under 25 if it wins the upcoming election, as it tries to tap into voter concerns over high unemployment, even among the well-educated. Opinion polls predict another big
KARNATAKA: The Karnataka Police arrested a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker in Mandya district for allegedly shouting a pro-Pakistan slogan during a protest organised by the party in 2022, the Hindustan Times reported. This came amid the arrest of three men by the Bengaluru Police on
NEW DELHI: A powerful Hindu group said several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just days after a huge temple was inaugurated on the site of a razed mosque. The comments from the Rashtriya
NEW DELHI: As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India's minority Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later this year, hoping to make a fresh start after a bloody, decades-long dispute. Haji
NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi set off on a 6,700 km “Unite India” march across the nation in an attempt to challenge the electoral hold of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, months before the national polls get underway. India, the world’s
MADINA MUNAWARA: In a rare diplomacy, a non-Muslim Indian delegation has been given access to the holy city of Madina Munawara in Saudi Arabia. The non-Muslim Indian delegation, led by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani, reached Saudi Arabia to pay
NEW DELHI: Cherished by the West and the whole of the world due to his principle stance advocating for non-violent protest, Mahatma Gandhi has become a victim of India’s growing Hindu nationalism 75-year, writes journalist Rana Ayyub — a staunch critic of Indian Prime Minister
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India on Monday overturned the life sentence reduction given to 11 Hindu men who were found guilty of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her relatives in 2002 during anti-Muslim protests in India's Gujarat state. The court ordered the men to
NEW DELHI: India's money laundering investigators has said that they seized properties worth 7.52 billion Indian rupees ($90.34 million) in a probe linked to a nine-year-old complaint against opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia. The complaint, lodged by a member of parliament