Masked vandals struck at a church in Thakkarpura village of Punjab's Tarn Taran district, damaging its pieta depicting the Virgin Mary cradling Christ's body and setting ablaze the administrator's parked car on their way out.

Amritsar: A clash broke out between Nihang Sikhs and followers of the Radha Soami Dera Satsang at Beas near here on Sunday after the former allegedly tried to forcibly enter the sprawling Dera premises to graze their cattle, leaving 10 people...

The Supreme Court has closed pending cases pertaining to the 2002 Gujarat riots for which it had formed an SIT under former CBI director R K Raghavan. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the SIT, informed the court that trials in eight...

The share of Muslims in India’s total prison population comprising convicts, undertrials, detenues and others has declined to 18.7% in 2021 from 20.2% in 2020, while the percentage of Hindus rose to 73.6% from 72.8% over the same period, according...

Veteran diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to Canada. Verma, a 1988-batch IFS officer currently India's Ambassador to Japan, will soon take over the new post.

Seeing the path taken by India since 2014, India is likely to get the tag of 3rd largest economy in 2029. India reported double digit economic growth at 13.5 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal. At this rate, India is likely...

A clash broke out in Congress over the forthcoming elections to the post of party president, with three MPs publicly demanding that the electoral rolls be made public, and the party rejecting it by saying that the practice has never existed.