Police arrested 14 people in overnight raids after a Hindu shrine was set on fire and severely damaged by a mob led by supporters of a cleric in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, officials said on Thursday. The temple’s destruction on Wednesday drew condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. Local police said […]
The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh (MP), where the Hindu nationalist party of Prime Minister; Narendra Modi is in power, is set to pass a bill that hands out a prison term; up to 10 years for anyone found guilty of using marriage; to force someone to change religion. If passed by the assembly, MP […]
New Delhi’s dreadful air quality turned a lot worse over the weekend as Hindus in India’s capital burned statues of their demon king Ravana and lit firecrackers; to celebrate the victory of good over evil during the Dussehra festival. As pollution spiked on Monday morning, India Gate, a monument near Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
