SRINAGAR:  Amid the hectic negotiations to cobble up a majority to form the government in Jammu and Kashmir, the Peoples Democratic Party today said that there is no question of the party compromising on its ideology and that government formation in the state could take some time. "We are not loo

NEW DELHI: One rupee currency notes are set to make a comeback after two decades, although in a different colour. Instead of the familiar indigo, the new Re 1 notes will be predominantly pink-green on the front and back in combination with others, a finance ministry notification said. Unlike othe

SRINAGAR:  Omar Abdullah has emphatically denied that his National Conference is in talks with the BJP on government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, even as the BJP began discussions with his arch rival the People's Democratic Party or PDP on Thursday night. "So many stories doing the rounds abou

GUWAHATI:  Bodo militants launched a fresh attack on Wednesday in Udalguri, the fourth district of Assam where violence has now spread, a day after the serial attacks in three other districts killed 76 people. 21 women and 18 children are among those killed. Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with its ally, the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), won an absolute majority in Jharkhand Assembly elections on Tuesday. The BJP-AJSU alliance secured 42 seats. The BJP alone won 37 in the 81-member House. However, in Jammu & Kashmir, a fractured

SURAT: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad claims to have brought 500 people from 100 Christian families back into the Hindu fold in a 'ghar wapsi' programme organized in the tribal Arnai village in Valsad on Saturday. The organizers said that they did not take any permission and did not violate any law. T

Voting began Saturday in the fifth and final phase of the assembly elections in Jharkhand and J&K, officials said. Sixteen of the 81 assembly constituencies will vote in this phase. Votes will be counted Dec 23. As many as 213 candidates will be battling it out for 20 legislative asembly s

New Delhi: Dharm Jagran Manch leader Rajeshwar Singh, of the Aligarh Christmas conversion programme fame, has raked up a new controversy with a fresh dose of vitriol. Rajeshwar Singh has said that they plan to root out Christianity and Islam from India by December 31, 2021, adding that Christians

BHOPAL: Sectarian violence erupted in the city with over 60 houses of a minority community torched by a mob on Thursday. Aman Colony in Karond resembled a war-torn site with thick smoke billowing from gutted houses, women screaming and injured being rushed to hospital. At least 75 people, including

Indian activists of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) pose while raising slogans during a rally to mark the 22nd anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid Mosque in Ayodhya, in Amritsar, in this Dec. 6, 2014 photo. Hindu hardliners demolished the Babri Mosque on December 6, 1992. (AFP) DELH

AGRA: A day after a group of around 200 Muslims in Madhunagar slum-cluster here claimed they had "reconverted" to Hinduism, many of them on Tuesday said they were still Muslims, with some admitting that they had joined the RSS and Bajrang Dal-organized 'ghar vapsi' ceremony after being promised rati

AGRA: Members of at least 57 Muslim families were converted to Hinduism at a ceremony called 'Purkhon ki ghar vapsi', a mass conversion jointly organized by Dharma Jagran Samanvay Vibhag, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and Bajrang Dal in Agra on Monday. RSS regional head Ra

Washington: The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC - www.iamc.com), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, has condemned the burning of St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Delhi on December 1, 2015 as an attack on India's religious minorities. Early foren

Mumbai:  As India continues its pursuit of black money allegedly stashed abroad, Switzerland has said it would not entertain any 'fishing expedition' and authorities cannot ask for names of all Indian account holders in Swiss banks without doing their own independent investigations. Switzerland's

BENGALURU:  After its launch was deferred twice due to bad weather, India's latest communication satellite GSAT-16 was placed in orbit by Ariane 5 rocket in the early hours today from the space port of Kourou in French Guiana. The European launcher blasted off at 2.10 AM (IST) and hurled the GSAT

While increased social exclusion and religious polarisation are pushing Muslims to urban areas, poverty amongst urban Muslims is 13-16% higher than the national average. In the western and northern states in particular, communalised state machineries and politics act as barriers to the economic and

AMRITSAR: At least 60 persons have lost their eyesight after an operation at an eye camp organised by an NGO in Gurdaspur district, civil and medical authorities said on Thursday. While 16 persons belonged to villages of Amritsar the rest were from Gurdaspur district. All of them were admitted in

The Modi government contradicted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah’s statement that the Saradha scam money was routed to Bangladesh terror groups.  Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday said: "The investigation has so far