Madhya Pradesh: A church in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district has been vandalised and torched by unknown persons, PTI reported on Monday, citing the police. The incident came to light on Sunday when some locals went to the church located in Chaukipura area to offer prayers. India
New Delhi: Member of Parliament from Hyderabad and President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Asaduddin Owaisi has said Muslims in India are living under constant threat and no month goes by without a threat to their lives. Asaduddin Owaisi speaking in Lok Sabha, the lower
New Delhi: More than 2.25 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship in 2022, the highest in the last 12 years, government data showed. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar presented the data in the Rajya Sabha in response to a question by Aam Aadmi Party MP Narain Dass
New Delhi: India unveiled its largest helicopter factory, which can turn out at least 1,000 aircraft a year, as part of a defence self-reliance push to counter China’s growing assertiveness. Earlier, New Delhi also announced a double-digit increase in its annual defence budget last week with
New Delhi: A total of 669 cases of death in police custody were registered across the country in the last five years from April 1, 2017, to March 31, 2022, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) told the Rajya Sabha. The data also revealed that the number
New Delhi: Indian authorities have abolished the VIP quota for pilgrims and allowed single women to apply as well, in a step they said on Tuesday was aimed at making the country’s pilgrimage policy more inclusive. With more than 200 million Indians professing Islam, the Hindu-majority
Despite explicit constitutional provision and guidelines, the suffering of Dalits and Adivasi communities across India remains the worst, according to newly released National Crime Records Bubreau (NRCB) data. Data on crimes against Dalits and Adivasis draws a distinct pattern of similarity between rural and urban spaces.
New Delhi: Amidst the opposition backlash in the parliament against the Union government’s silence on alleged stock manipulation by the Adani group, the Congress decided to pose three questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi every day on the purported financial scandal. The party’s decision to intensify
New Delhi: Authorities in the Indian southern state of Tamil Nadu have asked a pharma firm to halt the manufacturing of ophthalmic products after US health officials issued an alert regarding possible contamination of eye drops with adverse events in patients. This week, the Chennai city-based
The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan with the help of the World Bank, which is also a signatory. The negotiations were the initiative of former World Bank President Eugene Black. But Indian PM Modi during