Hindutva’s war on names

Aiza Azam | Recent renaming of the historic city of Allahabad, a metropolitan center in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, has stirred up...

Deepika Padukone bought her Mangalsutra for whopping Rs. 20 lakhs

News Desk | Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are getting ready for their 'D' day... Deepika after attending puja at her home in Bengaluru is...

Heavy police as flashpoint Indian shrine reopens

AFP | Authorities in southern India deployed 2,300 police on Monday to prevent a repeat of violent clashes last month around one of Hindu's holiest...

US to exempt China, India, Japan from Iran oil sanctions: Pompeo

AFP | The United States will exempt China, India and Japan from oil sanctions on Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday, while vowing...

Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors

AFP | Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his surgeons wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing...

Man-eating tiger shot dead in India after massive hunt

AFP | A man-eating tiger that claimed more than a dozen victims in two years has been shot dead in India, sparking controversy over the...

Indian law college to teach Harry Potter

AFP | A die-hard Harry Potter fan has designed a spellbinding course for aspiring lawyers in India, offering classes on the legality of curses and...

Suspected separatists shoot dead five in Indian state

AFP | Suspected separatist gunmen on Thursday shot dead five people they singled out in an Indian village where ethnic tensions are simmering over a...

Oppressed Kashmiris and the right of self-determination

Abdul Rasool Syed | Like every year, the people of Kashmir marked 27th October as a black day. On this very fateful day in 1947,...

Indian Supreme Court wants Modi government to come clean about alleged Rafale Scandal

News Analysis | During proceeding of a petition filed in the Indian Supreme Court against the alleged corruption in the $8.7 billion worth Rafale jet...

Indian Cricket legend urges PM Khan to restore India-Pakistan Test links

AFP | India great Farokh Engineer has called on former Pakistan captain turned Prime Minister Imran Khan to use his political clout to help restore...

Malawi court halts ‘racist’ Gandhi statue plan

AFP | Campaigners in Malawi won an injunction on Wednesday to temporarily halt work on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the commercial capital as...