In the regional vocabulary of the valley, Bhatta (often transliterated as Bhat, Bhatt, or Butt) is a Kashmiri linguistic adaptation of the Sanskrit Bhaṭṭa—a Brahmin title that has historically served ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in its guidelines for school-level history textbooks emphasizes that the role of religion ...

In a deeply disturbing incident from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a young man named Danish, aged 20, has been arrested for what appears to be a calculated act of deception and violence against a minor girl.

In the peaceful town of Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, the tranquility was violently ruptured by a horrifying incident that sparked anger and sorrow across the community. A young girl, whose life was just ...

It is said that there’s nothing original that a human being can say that’s not already present in nature. It follows that even the best human “originals” are just superlative imitations. So it is with ...

Some say it’s obvious we’re not alone, others scorn the very idea and still others yet will hauntingly report their own experiences of alien probings following their casual night-time stroll through ...

IN 1864, THE FAMOUS FRENCH world traveler Louis Rousselet described “[a] vast sheet of water, covered with lotuses in flower, amid which thousands of aquatic birds are sporting” at the shores of which ...

Bharatpur: A Hindu monk named Baba Vijay Das, who has been protesting against illegal mining in Pasopa village in Bharatpur, set himself on fire. He, along with other sages and saints, has been ...

Obvious evidence of child sex crimes in Telford was ignored for generations leading to more than 1,000 girls being abused, an inquiry has found. Agencies blamed children for the abuse they suffered, ...