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In a world divided by nation-states, immigration remains one of the contentious and debated issues. Objections have been raised by governments of both developed and developing nations about the unchecked inflow of migrants due to employment, political instability, and religious persecution. While there is a growing consensus among nations to check illegal immigration, the case of refugees provides for a unique case.

In a controversial move, the micro-blogging site Twitter has verified the Twitter handle of notorious radical Islamic organisation – Popular Front of India (PFI).

A striking aspect of the Dravidian brand of rationalism is how it attacks only Hindu beliefs and icons and is very careful to never critique the beliefs and practices of any other religion. Let us peer back in history and see if it was always so.

A man named Mukesh (42), a resident of Kasar village in Bahadurgarh of Jhajjar district of Haryana had succumbed to burn injuries after farmer protestors allegedly set him ablaze at the Tikri border protest site on May 16 (Wednesday). Haryana police arrested one of the main accused named Krishna. The investigation into this inhumane incident has revealed so far that the protestors, under the influence of alcohol, got into a dispute with the deceased. In that inebriated state, the accused hurled casteist slurs at Mukesh thereafter burnt him alive.

As the conflict between the government of India and Twitter continues over the new Information Technology rules, the Indian officials of the microblogging site were questioned by the Parliamentary Panel on Information Technology on various issues.

The phenomenon termed ‘Church Planting’ – a concentrated exercise of Evangelical Missionaries from US and UK focusing on spreading the beliefs of the Christian faith in India. Most Christian missionary organisation from US and UK have put the map of India on their mission chart for spreading the Christian faith and bringing the Indian locals into accepting the teachings of the Evangelists.

The word, ‘Hindutva’ an abstract noun formed by appending the Sanskrit masculine ‘tva’ to ‘Hindu’, and loosely translated as ‘Hinduness’ is of relatively recent origin. Although it was popularized in Bengal towards the end of the nineteenth century, its current prevalence must be attributed to the work of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966). While the author of works such as Indian War of Independence 1857 (1908) and Hindu Pad-Padashahi (1925), there is no doubt that Savarkar’s most important and influential work is Hindutva ; Who is a Hindu? Written...

Lets accept that world is plunging into deep religious conflicts as happened way back in 10th and 11th centuries, those were the days when powerful crusaders invaded lands to conquer wealth and spreading the agenda of their religious objectives. Starting from the invasion of Mohammad bin Kasim in 711 AD, who plundered Sind province of India by deceitfully killing kind Dhar opened the doors for Arab invaders into holy Hindu land “Hindustan” and bloody trail continued for 9 centuries, Mahmud Ghaznavid notoriously known as plunderer of holy temple Somnath, Turkish, Mongols, Huns, Tai...

On Friday (June 18), Urban Dictionary sparked a furore on Twitter after it described Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati as an “unmarried pornstar”.