Religious Grounds

A case has been filed against BJP's Bengaluru South candidate and MP Tejasvi Surya for seeking votes on religious grounds.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking a stay on release of the movie "The Kerala Story" on grounds that its a "worst kind of hate speech" and an "audio-visual propaganda".

A 22-year-old Dalit man, who fell in love with a woman of another religious faith, was allegedly humiliated by members of her community in full public glare in Bihar, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

A research analyst at the European Foundation for South Asian Studies has expressed concern over religious schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan becoming breeding grounds for terrorists.

Viral visuals of the police wrestling a Sikh man to the ground during the BJP's mega protest in Kolkata's twin city Howrah on Thursday during a protest march have set off a major controversy with the party accusing the police of hurting religious sentiments by pulling off the turban of 43-year-old Balwinder Singh, a resident of Bhatinda.

Ground information to electronic media - the police have been using all methods to navigate the contact tracing nightmare that has come up after the people who attended a massive religious gathering at Delhi's Nizamuddin area started testing positive for the highly contagious coronavirus. Seven people have died, one in Jammu and Kashmir and six in ...

Congress-ruled Rajasthan today passed a resolution against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA in the state assembly demanding repeal of the law amid countrywide protests. Rajasthan is the third state in the country to pass an anti-CAA resolution after Kerala and Punjab.

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA, violates constitutional provisions. "The CAA law that has been passed in my judgment should be turned down by the Supreme Court on the grounds of it being unconstitutional because you cannot have certain types of fundamental human rights linking citizenship with religious d...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday blamed the Congress for partition of the country on religious ground under pressure of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and asserted Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was brought to protect the religious minorities persecuted in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Around 23 opposition parties came together at the "United India Rally" organised by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today to reiterate their resolve to defeat the Narendra Modi-led BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The event -- held at Kolkata's Brigade Parade Grounds and attended by lakhs of people -- saw the participation of Samaj...

Days after a Noida park was declared out of bounds for religious activities, only a dozen people turned up there for the Friday namaz only to find parts of the ground waterlogged even as the police keeping a vigil.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea opposing the release "Kedarnath" on grounds that it hurt the religious sentiments of people and "lowered the dignity" of the eponymous deity.

The Shiv Sena today attacked ally BJP over the violence in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, asking if it was orchestrated to polarise society on religious grounds ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The education department under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation today directed a senior official to visit and inspect its school in Wazirabad over reports that students there were being allegedly segregated into Hindu and Muslim sections, official sources told news agency PTI.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea of a 50-year-old Sikh cycling enthusiast, who alleged he was discriminated against on religious grounds and disqualified from participating in a long-distance cycling event in Delhi three years ago for wearing a turban.

A case has been filed against BJP's Bengaluru South candidate and MP Tejasvi Surya for seeking votes on religious grounds.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking a stay on release of the movie "The Kerala Story" on grounds that its a "worst kind of hate speech" and an "audio-visual propaganda".

A 22-year-old Dalit man, who fell in love with a woman of another religious faith, was allegedly humiliated by members of her community in full public glare in Bihar, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

A research analyst at the European Foundation for South Asian Studies has expressed concern over religious schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan becoming breeding grounds for terrorists.

Viral visuals of the police wrestling a Sikh man to the ground during the BJP's mega protest in Kolkata's twin city Howrah on Thursday during a protest march have set off a major controversy with the party accusing the police of hurting religious sentiments by pulling off the turban of 43-year-old Balwinder Singh, a resident of Bhatinda.

Ground information to electronic media - the police have been using all methods to navigate the contact tracing nightmare that has come up after the people who attended a massive religious gathering at Delhi's Nizamuddin area started testing positive for the highly contagious coronavirus. Seven people have died, one in Jammu and Kashmir and six in ...

Congress-ruled Rajasthan today passed a resolution against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA in the state assembly demanding repeal of the law amid countrywide protests. Rajasthan is the third state in the country to pass an anti-CAA resolution after Kerala and Punjab.

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA, violates constitutional provisions. "The CAA law that has been passed in my judgment should be turned down by the Supreme Court on the grounds of it being unconstitutional because you cannot have certain types of fundamental human rights linking citizenship with religious d...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday blamed the Congress for partition of the country on religious ground under pressure of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and asserted Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was brought to protect the religious minorities persecuted in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Around 23 opposition parties came together at the "United India Rally" organised by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today to reiterate their resolve to defeat the Narendra Modi-led BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The event -- held at Kolkata's Brigade Parade Grounds and attended by lakhs of people -- saw the participation of Samaj...

Days after a Noida park was declared out of bounds for religious activities, only a dozen people turned up there for the Friday namaz only to find parts of the ground waterlogged even as the police keeping a vigil.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea opposing the release "Kedarnath" on grounds that it hurt the religious sentiments of people and "lowered the dignity" of the eponymous deity.

The Shiv Sena today attacked ally BJP over the violence in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, asking if it was orchestrated to polarise society on religious grounds ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The education department under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation today directed a senior official to visit and inspect its school in Wazirabad over reports that students there were being allegedly segregated into Hindu and Muslim sections, official sources told news agency PTI.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea of a 50-year-old Sikh cycling enthusiast, who alleged he was discriminated against on religious grounds and disqualified from participating in a long-distance cycling event in Delhi three years ago for wearing a turban.