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The Karnataka government has recognised the religion of Lingayats as entirely separate from Hinduism. The issue is likely to escalate into a major religious and political controversy for several reasons. The most immediate reason is that the assembly elections in Karnataka are barely a couple of months ...

Congress claims the External Affairs Minister gave wrong assurances that the Indians kidnapped in Mosul were “alive and safe.” The Congress on Thursday said it would bring a privilege motion in the Rajya Sabha against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for her statement on the killing of Indian ...

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A special court on Thursday granted bail to former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh, his wife and three others in a ₹7-crore money laundering case. Special Judge Arvind Kumar granted the relief to Mr. Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh, who were present in the court in response to the ...

In what might come as a surprise to his loyal American followers, K.P. Yohannan is about to join Hindu and Sufi masters for a three-day retreat where participants can spend $700-1000 each to find their “inner zen.” According to the website advertising the religious confab, participants will learn to “build a ...

Unfortunately, the broadcast media in the US has been unintentionally or carelessly used to paint a bleak, negative portrayal of Hindus and their religion. I will get to the specifics in a bit, but first let me share some background information to set the context. In the United States, there are around 2.5 million ...

In a top-level re-jig, the board of Sundram Fasteners Limited (SFL) has decided to appoint Arathi Krishna as the managing director of the company. Currently, she is the joint managing director of the company. She will take up the new assignment on April 20. The decision follows the imminent retirement of ...

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Stating that he had decided to present his version before the people, Mr. Raja said, “What I have said in the interviews given in The Hindu is the same thing that I said in the court, which is what Saini (Judge OP Saini) has said.” He further reminisced how DMK chief M. Karunanidhi chastised him for taking ...

City-based NGO Prajwala, with support of the U.S. Consulate General in Hyderabad, screened a series of short clips in the city on Monday to generate awareness on the ills of trafficking. The videos were made in collaboration with noted production houses such as Ramoji Film Studios, Suntouch ...

Scientists of the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) deployed drones to guide the rescuers at the Kolukkumalai forest area on Monday. At the request of the State DGP, three teams led by K. Senthil Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, MIT, reached Kolukkumalai around 6 ...

While it's hard to take aim when neon teal powder is obscuring your vision, that didn't stop kids and adults celebrating Holi, a Hindu spring holiday, from hurling vibrant colors at each other as part of the event on Sunday. The Festival of Colors party was sponsored by the United India Association of New ...

They were all dead,” he told The Hindu. Dr. C.P. Rajkumar, honorary wildlife warden, said he climbed up with his team of paramedical staff to the spot by midnight. “There were 10 of them. They all had burns. We administered firstaid and helped them till they were taken in dolis down to Kurangani,” he said.

Hindus, who make up four percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, have lately complained of forced conversions to Islam carried out by Islamists in their villages, causing many families to migrate to Hindu-majority India. In another historic development, late Monday the 104 member upper house of ...

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The Banashankari police were inundated with complaints from worried investors, a day after they arrested Raghavendra Srinath, director of Vikram Investments, for allegedly duping as many as 500 people of over Rs. 300 crore. On Monday, 66 people who said they had invested lakhs of rupees in Srinath's ...

Speaking to The Hindu, secretary of the library D.S. Varma said plans were afoot to start a counselling centre in the library. “A room will be dedicated for mock GD and interview sessions. This apart, we will be installing 41 new computers with internet facility and screen at least one Ted Talk on a daily basis,” ...

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However, a Sangh insider told The Hindu that his health had improved recently. The election of the RSS General Secretary takes place with the resignation of the general secretary and the appointment of an election agent. The election involves a delegate proposing a name and another one endorsing it.

Indian skies are home to a growing number of women pilots. The Hindu spent time with three elite pilots to find out what makes them fly. It is 8.30 in the morning on a Thursday. Shivani Reddy settles into a chair next to her mother Shobana. Her personal trainer has just left after a 45-minute session at their ...

Chennai Metro Rail will play host to another event this weekend. The grand finale of The Hindu In School Cello Young Writer's Club Chennai Chapter will be held at Vadapalani Metro Rail station on Saturday. About 300 students are expected to attend the grand finale to be held between 10 a.m. and noon.

During a hearing this week, she proposed a practical solution — why can't the President mute the users rather than block them if he doesn't want to see their comments? Now, that is a technological solution to a constitutional question. (Varghese K. George works for The Hindu and is based in Washington).

The majestic and mystical Nagalingam tree in the verdant Sri Ramana Ashram in Thiruvannamalai has had a deep impact on me. Situated in the garden opposite the samadhi of the master, this tree is always profusely in bloom. The flowers are bright, big and pink in colour with yellow stamens that look a ...

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Two videos that were viral in February this year on WhatsApp and on social media claiming Muslims attacked a Hindu temple in Rajasthan's Ranipura village, are false. One of the videos is from Bangladesh while the second video is a dispute between Hindus. Members of the Prajapati community were ...

The core philosophy underlying the Supreme Court's verdict allowing passive euthanasia and giving legal status to 'advance directives' is that the right to a dignified life extends up to the point of having a dignified death. In four concurring opinions, the five-member Constitution Bench grappled with a ...

There's one problem with this view: Congress runs the risk of having misdiagnosed the problem. I'm yet to come across a BJP supporter whose problem with Congress is that its leaders don't seem to pray enough. Rather, they complain that Congress treats members of religious minorities better than Hindus ...