About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Narendra Modi rose from his chair and walked briskly towards the podium to deliver another nighttime address to the nation. It was expected the speech would include a rare message of ...

MEERUT, India (RNS) — In February 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi donned scuba gear and dove off a small boat into the Arabian Sea to perform an underwater ceremony in what some ...

Hinduism is widely regarded as the oldest religion in the world, with roots that trace back thousands of years. Unlike other major religions, Hinduism has no single founder, no fixed date of origin, ...

The changes removed or shrank references to material that the governing party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi finds inconvenient to its Hindu-first vision. By Suhasini Raj Reporting from New Delhi ...

At the start of the academic year this month, 12th-year students of history and politics at tens of thousands of schools across India returned to a syllabus and textbooks that had been significantly ...

Supporters of the right-wing Hindu groups Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal reacting to communal clashes in Haryana state, burn an effigy and shout slogans in Ahmedabad, India, on Aug. 2, ...