A delegation comprising United States parliamentarians and businessmen called on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has been denied visa by that country after the 2002 riots.
Breaking the shackles of tradition, hundreds of widows played Holi with gulal and flowers in the land of Lord Krishna.
A lookout notice was on Monday issued against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai, a day after fresh sexual abuse complaints were lodged against the father-son duo by two sisters in Surat.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram organisation, which works for the welfare of 10 crore Scheduled Tribes in the country, in its national executive committee at Howrah took a resolution to address the issue of bonded labour in India.
Some children complained that they were being 'harassed and tortured' at the facility run by a pastor from Kerala.
The real dirt of India lies not on the streets but in "our minds and in our unwillingness to let go of views that divide society into them and us", President Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday emphasising on cleansing minds of divisive thoughts.
What is particularly worrying is that the vast majority will not have access to testing or even to proper treatment. These cases could have been avoided if the government had shown the political will to do so, observes Rashme Sehgal.
Controversial spiritual leader Asaram, who has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl in Jodhpur, on Friday claimed he was innocent and alleged that a conspiracy was afoot against him.
The bureaucracy in Haryana blamed the government for inexperience and criminal negligence.
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Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu on Thursday indirectly targeted United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, and accused them of leveling false accusations against him, in connection with the sexual assault of a minor.
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Nearly 100 precious idols of Hindu deities have been stolen in Bihar in last 14 months from various temples, mutts and ashrams, the police have revealed on Friday.
Ravi Shankar mulls taking his products, available at 600 outlets, to 2,500 stores by 2017; others have plans, too.
'India's reputation is not and cannot be dependent on the whimsical opinions of some obscure foreign advisory committee packed with Hindu-phobic acolytes,' declares Vivek Gumaste.
The controversy over Sant Rampal and his army of followers taking the law into their hands has once again thrown the spotlight on the clout that India's godmen possess.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 70 on Thursday, and wishes poured in from top dignitaries, including the President and Vice President, Union ministers and leaders from across the political divide. The Bharatiya Janata Party is organising a number of events, mainly aimed at public service, across the country to celebrate Modi's birthday as 'Sewa Divas'.
Putting an end to all speculations regarding the menu of the dinner to be served to Chinese President Xi Jinping who will be coming to Ahmedabad on his maiden visit on Wednesday, the state government has said the food will consist of only Gujarati delicacies.
India registered over 10,000 cases for the eighth day in a row.
During his maiden visit to Bhadrabila village, where the ancestral house of his in-laws is located, on March 5, Mukherjee announced a gift of six computers to the local Ramakrishna Ashram and promised construction of a 12-class room block or a girls' hostel for a local school located on the bank of Chitra river, according to official sources said on Thursday.
The ashes of the late Pandit Ravi Shankar, the noted sitar player who passed away last week, will be taken to Varanasi for the final rites, Lakshmi Shankar, the musician's sister-in-law, told rediff.com at a memorial service held at the Self Realisation Fellowship Ashram Center in Encinitas, Southern California.
As the nation celebrates the 143rd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, TripAdvisor has come out with a list of the five most highly rated attractions closely associated with the Father of the Nation.
As part of their ongoing campaign for the July 19 Presidential election, United Progressive Alliance nominee Pranab Mukherjee and his rival P A Sangma will be separately visiting Gujarat in next couple of days.
Even as the Supreme Court on Friday refused to order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into death of two children at Asaram Bapu's ashram here, a commission probing the 2008 case ordered the religious guru and his son to appear before it.
The government on Wednesday named nine out of 15 members of the 'Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra' trust constituted for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya as mandated by the Supreme Court. Here's all you need to know about the members of the trust who have been named so far.
They delivered 11 earthern pots of the organic colours to the prime minister's home.
The SC said that the woman law student did not want to go to her home state Uttar Pradesh.
Supporters of self-styled godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai on Wednesday clashed with a group of people protesting against him outside the premises of a Delhi court, minutes before he was produced in a rape case.
A close aide of Asaram who was evading arrest in connection with the murder of a prime witness in a rape case against the self-styled godman has been arrested.
Narendra Modi, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Pratibha Patil, Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle took blessings of him.
Rahul Gandhi and young leaders close to him are planning to connect with party workers on the ground and are preparing to embark on a nationwide yatra, reports Archis Mohan.
Facing arrest, controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda on Tuesday moved the Karnataka high court seeking quashing of a first information report filed in connection with last week's violent incidents in his ashram near in Bengaluru.
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A senior woman Indian Police Service officer posted in Surat has allegedly received an anonymous call threatening to kill her if she continues to search for self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai, wanted in a sexual assault case lodged against the father-son duo by two Surat-based sisters.
Surat police have sent a team to Delhi to gather evidence against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai, following a complaint of sexual assault registered by two sisters against the father-son duo.
A youth from Bihar, who was arrested in connection with an incident at Mata Amritanandamayi Ashram in Kollam on August 1, had died of torture at the mental asylum where he was admitted after the incident, the crime branch said in Thiruvananthapuram.
