1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (250+ words) Animal sacrifice continues in many a temple even today. Temples of Kamakhya Devi (Assam), Dakshineshwar Kali Temple (West Bengal) and others are amongst the temples that continue this practice of sacrifice of meat and chicken. In Maharashtra, near Lonavala, at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1195+ words) Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo THE origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire that refined it into a recognizable strategic system. It was Persia that codified its…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (228+ words) NEW DELHI " "Dubai Airport on Monday announced to temporarily suspend all flights as a precautionary safety measure, after a drone struck a fuel tank in the area." "Further updates will be announced through official channels as soon as they become…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (268+ words) The centre currently has three functioning launch pads used for launching sounding rockets, polar satellites, and geosynchronous satellites.The U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) is a leading organisation of the ISRO responsible for design, development, assembly and integration of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (344+ words) NEW DELHI " The sharp increase in fuel prices in Pakistan are turning painful during Ramadan, when household budgets are already under strain because the rise in the prices of basic necessities disproportionately affects middle-class families, according to a new report....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (550+ words) Scholars and political leaders say scenes in the film are hurtful and unfair to Muslims, who have long faced bias in popular cinema NEW DELHI " The teaser of the film Godan, directed by Amit Prajapati, has led to sharp protests…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (680+ words) Dr Aslam Abdullah CRICKET likes to call itself a gentleman's game. Gentlemen, we are told, value fairness even when it costs them something. But modern cricket has learned arithmetic, and arithmetic has taught it a harsher lesson: fairness is expensive;…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (280+ words) NEW DELHI "Kalki Sambhal, a film based on the 1978 and 2024 riots rocking the town of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, is the latest in a series of Islamophobic pictures churned out by the entertainment industry, especially after the Bharatiya Janata Party…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (196+ words) When Javed Akhtar dismisses A.R. Rahman's concerns about the growing communalisation of Bollywood he contradicts lived & shared realities of Indian Muslims including those of his own wife Shabana Azmi, who has openly spoken about being denied housing for being Muslim in…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (462+ words) AMROHA " A fresh controversy has erupted in Amroha in Uttar Pradesh after a video from a private school programme showed students wearing a burqa and performing what many Muslims described as obscene dance moves, allegedly mocking Islam and its symbols....