News India Religion: India's top court to hear Ayodhya religious dispute on daily basis
India's top court will hear arguments every day in an effort to resolve a decades-old dispute over what should be built on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said on Friday. The move strengthens hopes for eventual resolution of a quarrel at the center of fraught ties
News India Religion: What the Criminalization of Instant Divorce Means for India’s Muslims
Other activists acknowledge that the change is needed, but say that it comes at a time when Hindu nationalism is the dominant political movement in India and as religious minorities, especially ...
News India Religion: Rumours, suspicions, fears: What Indian Muslims have battled since Independence
The repudiation of the two-nation theory, based on common religion, by Indian Muslims was reaffirmed by the breaking away of East Bengal and the birth of Bangladesh. It is surprising that Pakistan ...
News India Religion: Here's what life is like on the border between India and Pakistan, one of the world's most disputed regions
The two countries were both part of British India, but colonial rule ended in 1947 and India and Pakistan were split in two, divided along religious lines by a British lawyer who hadn't been to India ...
News India Religion: For 3 months, no girls were born in 132 Indian villages
In Hinduism, India’s predominant religion, male children perform the funeral rites of their parents. A 2011 census found that there were 943 females for every 1,000 males in the country, and recent ...
News India Religion: Science and the rise of nationalism in India
Or attempting to be: India was left with not so much a separation of state and religion as an intention to embrace all traditions evenly. Yet, since the 1990s, Hindu nationalism has steadily gathered ...
News India Religion: Indian celebrities protest attacks on dissent, minorities
NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of Indian celebrities have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and stop rising incidents of attacks on minorities, misuse of religion by Hindu hard-liners and ...
News India Religion: PM Modi files nomination papers in India’s general election
But critics say his party’s Hindu nationalism has aggravated religious tensions in India. In his five years as prime minister, Modi has pushed to promote this secular nation of 1.3 billion people and ...
News India Religion: India in terror crosshairs
The threat, however, remains and South Indian cities may have to remain on a heightened ... They may be shunned by fellow citizens in their homeland on the basis of their religious beliefs and are ...
News India Religion: Religious violence is rising in Narendra Modi’s India. It might not hurt his reelection hopes
In this village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a house has sat abandoned for more than 3½ years. It is locked from the outside, and a courtyard accessible from the back is full of ...
News India Religion: Alvi asks India to protect minorities
LAHORE: President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday asked India to learn from Pakistan the value of peace and the importance of respecting and protecting minorities, expressing his concern over what he described ...
