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: A school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where a school teacher reportedly encouraged students to slap a Muslim student, has been ordered shut until an investigation against the school authorities is completed. The schoolteacher has been booked and an investigation into
NEW DELHI: A mob of nearly 20 people shouting “Jai Shri Ram” and hailing India as a Hindu nation vandalised a church and assaulted members of the Christian community in Delhi’s Tahirpur on Sunday. In his complaint to the police, pastor Satpal Bhati said that the
GURUGRAM, India: Over 3,000 poor Muslims have fled a business hub outside New Delhi this month, fearing for their lives after Hindu-Muslim clashes and sporadic attacks targeting them, residents, police and a community group said. Shops and shacks owned or run by Muslims and their houses
Manipur: The Indian Army “released” at least 12 militants after they were surrounded by a 1,500-strong “women-led mob” in the northeastern state of Manipur that has been experiencing ethnic violence for about two months. The security forces confirmed they were forced to release the militants belonging
SITAPUR: The acting is dire and the scenarios fake, but staged videos are peddling disinformation and fanning sectarian tensions in India, which has seen rising Hindu radicalisation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. One such five-minute film purported to show a Muslim man mixing toilet cleaning liquid
Churachandpur, India: The stench of death hangs heavy over the morgue at an Indian hospital -- and relatives are refusing to bury the rotting corpses in protest at their killings in ethnic violence. Kamlallian Ype, 35, from the mainly Christian Kuki tribe, was killed fleeing attackers
Guwahati: The death toll after ethnic clashes in India’s remote northeast rose to 54 on Saturday, with fresh violence overnight despite authorities rushing in troops to restore order. Thousands of soldiers were sent to Manipur state after a protest march by a tribal group turned violent
Kolkata: At least 36 people have been arrested in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal after violent clashes disrupted a religious procession, a senior state police official said on Saturday. A few vehicles were set ablaze and some shops were ransacked on Thursday as warring
New Delhi: Bajrang Muni Das, a Hindu priest who was last year arrested on a charge of inciting Hindus to “kill and rape Muslims,” has now called for genocide of Muslims to establish a Hindu Rashtra. “We know that India was a peaceful country in the