Gauhati High Court's division bench of Chief Justice Koteshwar Singh and Justice Manish Choudhury has issued a notice to the Home, Law & Minority Affair Ministry in a plea seeking identification of minorities at the State level. ..

Special CBI Court has acquitted all 32 accused of controversial Babri mosque demolition case. The Court said there was no conclusive proof against the accused. ..

In India-Sri Lanka Virtual Bilateral Summit held on Saturday (September 26), India announced a US $15 million grant assistance to Sri Lanka to strengthen Buddhist cultural links between the two countries...

In the report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region, an Australian think tank said that Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang province. ..

Christian missionaries are being accused of proselytizing by tribal communities in Chhattisgarh. Communities allege that religious conversions have destroyed their ancient traditions and customs. Christian missionaries have also been accused of converting tribal people to Christianity through fraudulent social work. ..

Crime Investigation Department (CID) recovered 74 antique idols from the house of a French national in Puducherry. The raid was carried out by 20 member team led by Superintendent of Police R Sakthivel on Wednesday (September 23). The seized idols included the deities of Ardhanarishara, Shiva-Parvathi and Alingana Pradosa Murthy. ..

Pakistani journalist and commentator Ansar Abbasi has condemned a video in which a woman was exercising for her fitness. According to Abbasi, the video is un-Islamic...

Though the Christian leaders are demanding separate code for Sarna community for the protection of their identity, language and culture, several incidences of conflicts have been reported between the Christian and Sarna communities. ..

In Srinagar, Sanjay Tickoo, the president of Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) started a 'fast-unto-death' for the rights of the non-migrant Pandit community of Kashmir. Along with him, several other Kashmiri Pandits started staged a sit-in protest. They have started a protest at historic Ganpatyar temple in old Srinagar city of Jammu and Kashmir...

Sankat Mochan Temple, located in Varanasi city of Uttar Pradesh, has reopened for devotees after six months. The restricted number of devotees will be allowed entry to the temple due to Coronavirus pandemic...

Religious oppression has been continued in China under the Communist rule. China has demolished a 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple located in Shanxi province. ..

Dalai Lama was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and the US Congressional Gold Medal in 2006. Dalai Lama has been residing in India since March 1959. He was fled from Potala Palace in Lhasa after the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) occupied the Tibet...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted the people on the occasion of Mahalaya, which marks the end of Pitru Paksha. ..

In Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu (TN), the administration has started receiving the application from churches which need to repair or renovate. ..

According to the officials, some fake websites were offering Seva tickets of Srivari Vastram, Udayasthamana and Abhisekam Sevas by taking money from devotees through online payment...

Haryana Government has imposed a ban on the gathering of devotees at any pilgrimage site during Amavasya on September 17. The decision was taken by the Government to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. ..

Al-Qaeda, a banned Islamic terrorist organization has threatened the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it reprinted a series of controversial caricatures depicting Prophet Mohammed. Al-Qaeda has threatened to carry out another massacre at the magazine's office located in Paris...

In Mandya district of Karnataka, three priests were found brutally murdered in the courtyard of Sri Arakeshwara Temple. This incident took place in Guttalu village in Mandya, which is 100 km from Bengaluru city. The police have identified the three priests as Ganesh, Prakash and Anand...

In the United Nations General Assembly's High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, India has highlighted the 'culture of violence' in Pakistan. In the statement, India said, "Pakistan's deplorable human rights records and discriminatory treatment of religious and ethnic minorities is a cause of persistent concern for the international community."..

The Government of Himachal Pradesh has decided to open all religious places across the State as a part of 'Unlock 4'. ..

In Thrissur district of Kerala, famous Lord Krishna temple located in Guruvayur town has been opened for devotees. The temple administration has made arrangements in the wake of Coronavirus pandemic according to the guidelines provided by Central Government...

The petitioner alleges that “Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Act is arbitrary and contrary to Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29 & 30 of the Constitution. The Notification dated 23.10.1993 facilitates the violation of fundamental rights viz. right to health, right to education, right to shelter and right to livelihood, etc. It is also against the equality, justice, and secularism, the great golden goals of our Constitution.”..

Two years ago, Tamil-dominated North Sri Lanka had witnessed protests led by Hindus demanding a complete ban on cow slaughter. It had generated good support even in the Sinhalese Buddhist-dominated Southern Sri Lanka. ..

In the wake of Coronavirus pandemic, which is spread across the world from China, the Pope has dropped all foreign trips which were scheduled for this year (2020). ..

Tamil Nadu Police has arrested Bishop of Advent Christian Church named S.D. David in connection with an Rs 50 crore land scam. The land is located in Velachery town in Chennai district and it is belonged to the Church. ..

Sudan has come a long way to move forward with a separation of religion and State. Under an extreme Islamic rule guided by the norms of Sharia, Sudan has faced massacres, genocide, economic obliteration and even breakage of its southern portion in 2011, which we now know as an independent South Sudan. ..

Tarkeshwar temple authorities have reopened the temple for devotees. The decision was taken two days back after the guidelines issued by the Central Government in the wake of the Coronavirus epidemic. The temple was closed for the last five months due to lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of Coronavirus...

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has tied up with the Indian Post, for the speedy delivery of Prasad to the devotees across the country. ..

After facing oppression from Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan, 182 members belonged to the Hindu and Sikh communities have arrived in India. The special flight was arranged for their arrival. ..

In Gujarat, a pastor of Khlesia Church in the Rabari Colony area, Ahmedabad, sexually abused a minor girl, made her nude videos, and threatened her to convert her religion to Christianity...

High Court of Bangladesh has ordered that Hindu widows will get a share in all kinds of properties, agricultural land and non-agricultural land, of their deceased husbands. Earlier, the law entitled the Hindu widows only to the homestead property of their husband...

By quoting France has a freedom of expression; President Emmanuel Macron said that it was not his place to pass judgment on the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to republish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad...

US Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden has greeted the Jain community on the concluding day of Paryushan and Das Lakshan festival...

On the death anniversary of terrorist Dilawar Singh, an assassin of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, some radical Sikhs have raised pro Khalistan slogans at the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhs, in Amritsar...

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has announced that it is going to develop a grand Radha Gopal Mandir Vedic India Cultural Centre in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, the second such after Kanpur...