Beef ban hits lions, tigers
2015-03-30
Underlying the debate is unease among some liberal Indians worried that the ban shows the growing power of the Hindu right in the countryContinue Reading
Rape of Catholic nun, church attacks unnerve Indian Christians
2015-03-17
New Delhi – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned” about the recent rape of a nun and the destruction of a church, but Christian groups said his words did little to dispel the fear gripping the tiny community since his rightwing Hindu government cameContinue Reading
Police arrest main accused in Haryana church vandalisation case
2015-03-17
Chandigarh – Haryana Police on Tuesday arrested the main accused in the vandalisation of an under-construction church in a village in Hisar district. “The main accused Anil Godara has been arrested from Hisar today,” Hisar SP Saurabh Singh told PTI over phone. He said that the accused will be producedContinue Reading
Indian Jesuit abducted in Afghanistan released: Modi tweets
2015-02-22
Father Alexis Prem Kumar was abducted on June 2, 2014Continue Reading
Delhi polls, NRIs forced Modi U-turn on faith
2015-02-19
Representatives of Christian groups met PM Modi on Christmas eve to request him to assuage their fears of the ghar vapsi and attacks on churches, but he refused to do so.Continue Reading
President, Sonia happy over Modi statement on religious violence
2015-02-18
Mukherjee and Sonia asserted that attack on religious places is not the way India behavesContinue Reading
Thoughts on prime minister’s assurance
2015-02-18
Time the prime minister walked the talk on religious freedomContinue Reading
Modi to join Catholics to celebrate new saints
2015-02-12
The prime minister will open the concluding sessionContinue Reading
Govt pushes ordinance to help overseas Indians
2015-01-08
The President has signed the Citizenship OrdinanceContinue Reading
India’s deepening communal cleavages
2014-12-11
Emboldened individual Hindu activists “could be testing the waters, testing precedent, testing the limits of the politically possible”Continue Reading