Dehradun, Aug 19 (IANS) A series of landslides triggered by incessant rains over the past three days in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand has disrupted the Kailash-Mansarovar pi...More

Bangalore, Aug 19 (IANS) A government-aided college in a communally sensitive Karnataka district Wednesday justified its decision to bar Muslim girl students from wearing head sca...More

Panaji, Aug 19 (IANS) An art exhibition by renowned installation artist Subodh Kerkar with god Ganesh as its theme will now be held for two days instead of the planned 12 days, th...More

Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) As you join the Ganeshotsav celebrations, Maharashtra's biggest public festival which starts Aug 23, you will notice two themes recurring across the marquee...More

New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday greeted the nation on the 'joyous occasion' of Navroz, the beginning of the Parsi New Year. ...More

Chandigarh, Aug 17 (IANS) Radical Sikh groups of Punjab Monday presented a turban to state revenue official G.S. Benipal, who had stopped wearing one after being assaulted and str...More

Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS) Thousands of devotees gathered at the ISKCON temple in West Bengal's Nadia district as Janmashtami, the festival that marks the birth of Lord Krishna, was c...More

Bhubaneswar, Aug 13 (IANS) Hindu outfits Thursday observed quietly the first death anniversary of Laxmananda Saraswati, who was killed in August last year in Kandhamal district, u...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) India Thursday slammed a US body's move to put India on its 'watch list' for allegedly inadequate response in protecting its religious minorities, and ass...More

Panaji, Aug 13 (IANS) The Goa unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday advocated low-key Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in the state to check the spread of swine flu. ...More

Junagadh (Gujarat), Aug 13 (IANS) A group of Hindu monks will Monday launch a campaign to rid this Gujarat city of all polythene waste to save cows, considered holy by the Hindus....More

Lucknow, Aug 13 (IANS) Meet V.S. Saxena, 72, a retired senior engineer of the railways, who wears saffron coloured salwaar-kameez and dons anklets, bangles and earrings as he tran...More

Jammu, Aug 13 (IANS) Notwithstanding the scare caused by swine flu and the advisories to stay away from crowded places, shoppers are thronging markets in large numbers to make pur...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday greeted the nation on the occasion of Janmashtami and hoped the festival would encourage everyone to achieve of the...More

New Delhi, August 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said the government and civil society groups must keep an eye on and protest against those who resort to violen...More