Mumbai, Aug 23 (IANS) Lord Ganesh was visible in full splendour, in different 'avatars', moods, and images - ranging from eco-friendly to sheer opulence - at the homes of commoner...More

Panaji, Aug 23 (IANS) This year popular religious festival of Ganesh Chaturthi has come with a definite green lining in Goa. Aggressive campaigning and l...More

Kottayam (Kerala), Aug 23 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday released a set of commemorative coins to mark the birth centenary of the first Indian woman Catholic Sain...More

Bhubaneswar, Aug 23 (IANS) After ensuring peaceful Janmashtami, the district police of Kandhamal Sunday stepped up security as on this day last year Laxmananda Saraswati, a Hindu ...More

Mumbai, Aug 23 (IANS) The city of Mumbai reverberated with the first 'azaan' (call for prayers) of the holy month of Ramzan and the 'aartis' welcoming the elephant-headed Lord Gan...More

Chennai, Aug 23 (IANS) The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi was celebrated across Tamil Nadu Sunday with people thronging temples and making 'kozhakattai', a sweet said to be a favour...More

Hyderabad, Aug 22 (IANS) Police in Andhra Pradesh's temple town of Tirupati Saturday booked a case of theft and cheating against the chief priest of a temple under the control of ...More

New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) Educational institutes can impose any dress code provided it is not discriminatory or not targeted at a particular community, experts say, amid a controve...More

New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) Spiritual group Kryon Source is holding a series of workshops in the capital from next weekend. A one-day workshop called Past L...More

Bhopal, Aug 21 (IANS) At least 48 people, including two policemen, were injured Friday in the annual daylong Gotmaar Mela which the authorities in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara dist...More

Bhopal, Aug 21 (IANS) Despite imposing a ban on a ritual in which people hurl stones at each other, the authorities in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district were unable to stop peo...More

Hyderabad, Aug 21 (IANS) Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed Friday asked educational institutions to be sensitive to the concerns and feelings of all communities, speciall...More

Bangalore, Aug 20 (IANS) The Mangalore University has called a meeting of principals of affiliated colleges to discuss a campus dress code following the insistence of a Muslim stu...More

Mumbai, Aug 20 (IANS) Nearly 15 years ago, Mumbai housewife Neha V. yearned for a child. Though she and her husband were not known to have any medical complications, they were una...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) 'It was the darkest night of my life,' recalls 45-year-old Ravinder Nath Pradhan, who a year ago saw his house and paralysed brother being doused with pet...More