PEN: Recently married, Namrata Raut returned to her family home in rural western India to paint hundreds of Ganesha idols ahead of a major Hindu festival celebrating the elephant-headed deity...
Pen, in Maharashtra state, is renowned for its exquisitely designed and beautifully coloured statues of the auspicious god, which are sold around the world providing the lifeblood of this small community...
The violence broke out on Monday night when police fired tear gas at a group of sadhus (Hindu saints), who were protesting against the authorities’ refusal to allow them to immerse idols in the River Ganges last month...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday expressed dismay over the absence of idols in the Sri Ram and Hanuman temples in the Katas Raj temple complex in Chakwal, and sought an explanation from the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) in this regard...
Pilgrims bring their own idols to worship at Hanuman, Sri Ram temples, court toldThe court was perturbed to learn that two adjacent temples within the premises of the Katas Raj,...
Bangladesh defeated India by five wickets in Dhaka even though Sachin Tendulkar ended his long wait for his 100th international century in the Asia Cup game...
I saw the famous Indian fan Sudhir Gautam,” he said, referring to the India superfan who also dons body paint in national colours and has been seen around the world...
NEW DELHI: India's top court quashed criminal proceedings on Monday against One-Day International (ODI) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni over a magazine cover depicting him as a Hindu god...
we have taken note of the complaint and the offence alleged while passing this order,” a bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, according to the Press Trust of India...
”India’s movie industry is the biggest in the world, producing more than 1,600 new films a year in more than 20 local languages...
Yet he is so beloved — he boasts three million Twitter followers — that his movie release dates are anticipated in India like national holidays...
This is one of the mutashabihat verses of the Quran about the creation of Hazrat Adam, the reality of which is known only to God, but it implies the breathing of a spirit from Him, making humans unique to all other creations...
The 99 names of God are based on His attributes and actions and they are either mentioned or indicated in the Quran...
Francis asked the faithful in St Peter's Square to pray that God “saves them” and they receive help...
Born in the Punjabi city of Jalandhar (now in India), he moved to Lahore following India and Pakistan’s independence and Partition in 1947...
As its title suggests, Krishn Kanhaiya is a poem about the Hindu god Krishna...
In India, too, memorial stones are present extensively in the western/north-western and southern parts, such as Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra...
The northern and eastern parts of India do not have such relics, probably because of the centuries of Muslim settlement there...
Returning to God is returning home, and we will find that it was our stay in this world that was strange...
The Quran also likens death to sleep wherein the soul is taken by God and returned (when a person wakes up) but not when death has been decreed...
The Jews regard it as the place where ‘God’s divine presence is manifested more than any other place’...
Darkness has arrived; my feet are killing me but my peripatetic spirit urges me to continue walking the centuries-old streets where every stone bears testament to the millions of people — Muslims, Jews and Christians, who for thousands of years, have lived, fought and worshipped the one God on this Holy Land...
Unaccustomed to the heat of the plains, the British civil and military administrators serving in this part of India developed Thandiani as a summer retreat for themselves and their families...
THE book with a lofty title, The God Who Failed, by former Indian bureaucrat Madhav Godbole, is a well-researched study of the 17 years of Jawaharlal Nehru’s premiership, his leadership in general and its influence on India in the subsequent years...
He is also the author of 10 books in English and eight in Marathi, including Good Governance: Never on India’s Radar, India’s Parliamentary Democracy on Trial and The Holocaust of Indian...
Maradona's quarter-final goal against England in Mexico City gained added notoriety when the tiny Argentine, who tapped the ball over the head of onrushing goalkeeper Peter Shilton with his fist, claimed it had been scored by the 'Hand of God'...