by Elsa Marty | Nov 11, 2012 | Opinion
Last month, McDonald’s announced that it will be opening its first purely vegetarian restaurants in India. If you’re headed to the Golden Temple in Amritsar or Vaishno Devi in Kashmir and decide you’d like to grab a burger at the local... by Vishal Arora | Feb 17, 2011 | News
NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha’s bones to Sri Lanka for the 2600th anniversary of Buddha’s Enlightenment in May, and some see it as part of India’s strategy to gain a regional edge over neighboring China. Indranil Banerjie, head of... by Vishal Arora | Feb 4, 2011 | News
NEW DELHI (RNS) In an unprecedented probe of exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks, Indian officials want to know why top Buddhist leaders had $1.5 million in cash stashed away at their headquarters in Dharmsala. Police seized $1.5 million of cash in Indian and foreign... by Anto Akkara | Oct 4, 2010 | News
Bangalore, India (RNS/ENInews) Churches in India have joined other faiths and political leaders in calling for calm after a court ruled that a religious site violently disputed by Hindus and Muslims should be split between the two groups. The high court of northern... by Vishal Arora | Aug 6, 2010 | News
NEW DELHI (RNS) Tensions between Christians and Muslims in India’s Kerala state have reached the boiling point over allegations of widespread coerced conversions to Islam. Kerala’s communist Chief Minister, V.S. Achuthanandan, accused an Islamist...