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Indian troops have been deployed in strength and tracks cleared of snow for the annual pilgrimage by Hindus to one of their holiest cave shrines in Indian Kashmir, officials said...

AYODHYA: Indian police fired tear gas today to disperse Hindu activists who blocked roads and closed shops in dozens of cities to protest an attack on a holy site that has been a tinderbox for Hindu-Muslim violence...

NEW DELHI: Police fired tear gas and water cannon yesterday as angry Hindus staged scattered protests against an attack by militants on a flashpoint site sacred to both Hindus and Muslims...

World: Hindu nationalists today stormed an airport in central India in retaliation for yesterday's attack on a sacred shrine. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Hindu/SIG=12b96hocr/*http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,12559,1522461,00.html?gusrc=rss

Demanding the resignation of the UPA government, fundamentalist Hindu organisations and temple managements today took to the streets to register their protest against terrorist attack at Ayodhya, yesterday...

At least five gunmen blew up a security wall with a car bomb and stormed into a revered Hindu temple complex in India on Tuesday, setting off a gunbattle with security forces that left all the attackers dead, officials said...

In a likely suicide attack, unidentified militants blew up a security fence on Tuesday and stormed a northern Indian Hindu shrine at the heart of a bitter sectarian dispute, setting off a fierce gunbattle with security personnel that left five other attackers dead, officials said...

Four unidentified militants lobbing bombs and firing automatic weapons stormed a Hindu temple at one of India's holiest religious sites on Tuesday, setting off a fierce gunbattle with police that left all the attackers dead, news reports said...

India's main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has sacked former foreign minister Yashwant Sinha from the post of party spokesman, a party leader said, after a series of remarks criticising senior leaders...

V. S. Naipaul's writings about India, scathingly depreciating at times, have never gone down well with the Indian intelligentsia. His post Nobel Prize remark that he had contributed to India's intellectual development was greeted with profound scepticism and deep antipathy in India...

Sikh protesters disrupt wedding in U.K. LONDON: A Sikh couple had to postpone their wedding after protesters from the community stormed the hotel where the...

Prince Harry took DNA test? LONDON: Prince Harry, second son of Princess Diana, was made to undergo a DNA test to disprove rumours that James Hewitt, an Army officer with whom she had an affair, was his father, a media report claimed on Wednesday...

More than 1,500 people attended opening ceremonies Saturday at the new 40,000-square-foot temple of the Vallabh Priti Seva Samaj, a 500-year-old Hindu sect. Participants happily chanted at the unveiling of the statue of the Shri Nathji, or Lord Krishna, one of the main deities of Hinduism, in a...

Is Electrolux next on the takeover list? CLOSE on the heels of acquiring the colour picture-tube business of Thomson, the Videocon group seems to have more acquisitions in the pipeline...

For the first time, seers from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are planning to launch a drive against untouchability. Seers and sadhus will join hands cutting across community lines to spread the message of equality...

A Pakistan-based trust would spend Rs 12 crore for the beautification of the holy places of Hindu and Sikh communities in the country. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11mqc7cmo/*http%3A//www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=306631

New Delhi -- A San Francisco professor has become embroiled in a dispute with militant Hindu activists who, she says, threatened to parade her naked in the streets and rape her because she was working with a local organization investigating religious and caste tensions in eastern India...

PHOTO CALL: Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz (centre) and Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (third from left) with a delegation of members of the Indian Newspaper Society led by its Executive President, Pradeep Guha, and including N. Murali, Joint Managing Director, The Hindu , in...

A San Francisco professor has become embroiled in a dispute with militant Hindu activists who, she says, threatened to parade her naked in the streets and rape her because she was working with a local organization investigating religious and caste tensions in...

Insurance cover for car glass too! CHENNAI: Windshield Experts, a pioneer in car glass repair and replacement in the country, on Tuesday announced its national tie-up with Cholamandalam MS General Insurance for automotive glass claims...