Tag: India
Incidents of communal violence rise in 9 Indian states
India credentials as a secular country are being adversely affected by the lawlessness in the country, activists say
Mobile theatres to screen child slavery film in rural India
Traffickers target people in rural villages luring them to cities with the promise of good jobs but then selling them into modern day slavery
Pakistan opens corridor to one Sikhism’s holiest shrines
Indian Sikhs now have visa-free access to one of their holiest shrines after Pakistan opened a historic corridor to pilgrims at the weekend.
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Mother Teresa award goes to NGO exposing organ harvesting in China
Transplant abuse in China needs to be confronted, says founder of medico group
Temple devotees ‘flex their muscles’ over scarce land in India
Hindus make up 80 percent of India's 1.3 billion population, and hundreds of thousands of temples dot the country
India’s increasing defenses eat away at farmland along border with Pakistan
Indian security forces have been acquiring land to fortify defenses in the border districts of Jammu and Kashmir
India’s palm oil buyers boycott Malaysia over Kashmir comments
Move comes after Malaysian PM said India had ‘invaded and occupied’ the disputed Muslim-majority region
Indian nun expelled after rape protest sees appeal rejected
The bishop is charged with raping a nun at a convent multiple times between 2014 and 2016
Indian nun Mariam Thresia declared a saint
Founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family was blessed with stigmata, offered her sufferings for the remission of the world’s sins
Indian students bring yoga in from the cold
The students at St. Joseph’s School in the Indian city of Ranchi stretched, twisted and turned in a carefully choreographed display that at first...