British Indian businessman and peer, Lord Rami Ranger has condemned the UK's Forfeiture Committee's decision to revoke his Commander of the British Empire (CBE) honour, criticising the action as violating his freedom of speech. A spokesperson...

How the world can change in less than a week.  I refer of course to the collapse ofPresident Bashar al-Assad’sdictatorship in Syria. 

In recent years, the global Hindu community has found itself at a crossroads, with two powerful narratives vying for the soul of a religion that dates back millennia. On one side is the Hindutva ideology, championed by groups and individuals...

The UK and US have sanctioned British-Kenyan businessman Kamlesh Pattni, freezing his assets along with those of four others, including his wife and brother-in-law, over alleged involvement in the illicit gold trade, the UK Foreign Office announced.

Isro successfully launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 mission aboard the PSLV-C59 rocket, which lifted off from the first launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

Bollywood’s power couple, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, stepped out together for a rare joint appearance at a party in Mumbai. Married for over 15 years, the couple has been attending events separately of late, making this recent...

On Tuesday 10 December, as we went to press, Hindus in the UK gathered at Parliament Square with posters, banners and placards, shouting “we want justice” as they protested against the treatment of the community in Bangladesh, and demanding...

Over 100,000 volunteers (swayamsevak/karyakar) associated with the Bochasanvasi Akshar Purushottam Sansthan (BAPS) sect of Swaminarayan Sampradaya gathered at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday to celebrate 50 years since the...

Days after the Mahayuti alliance secured a resounding victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the state’s chief minister on December 5. Joining him at the oath-taking ceremony at Mumbai’s Azad...

Syrian rebels declared they had ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad after seizing control of Damascus, forcing him to flee the country, which has been ruled by his family with an iron fist since the early 1970s. It marked a dramatic breakthrough...