Madhya Pradesh: A tribal family in Neemuch had to cremate a relative under police protection after being denied entry into the village’s three crematoriums allegedly meant for upper-caste people, underscoring a deep-seated social divide in Madhya Pradesh’s interior areas. The incident happened after 45-year-old Ratni Bai, a Bhil tribal woman,Continue Reading

Chennai: The Madras High Court today stayed the Church of South India (CSI) Coimbatore Diocese from conducting elections to the diocese from November 14 to 16. The court gave the interim stay on a petition by E Premkumar, one of the permanent member of the CSI, Slater Nagar Pastorate, Perundurai,Continue Reading

The debate on celebrating the second annual Tipu Jayanti is underway in Karnataka with the usual suspects taking the usual ideological positions. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have taken to the nasty sniping that could easily fuel the kind of acrimony, which has claimed two lives inContinue Reading