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Maulvi Yaqoob estimates that around 9,000 Hindu conversions have taken place at the Madarsa during the last 15 years. More recently though they have started maintaining a record, and he can confirm that last year, around 850 Hindus underwent conversion here.

The manager of a regional rural bank (Ellaquai Dehati Bank) was shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday.

The Enforcement Directorate has frozen the bank accounts of the Islamist organization Popular Front of India (PFI) under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Niraj Rai, the group head of the ancient DNA lab at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences Lucknow, on Wednesday (1 June) slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and some journalists for propagating a "mischievous" media report on an alleged "racial purity" study on Indians.

Controversial Pastor Bajinder Singh absconded after multiple complaints were filed by the SC-ST Forum and Odisha Hindu organizations. They wanted the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) to register an FIR against the Balangir Sub-collector for aiding a massive conversion event organized by Singh targeting innocent tribals of indigenous faith.

Mudassir Ahmad Sheikh, the martyred Jammu, and Kashmir policeman gave his life up for the nation when he met a tragic end in the Baramulla encounter which killed three Pakistani terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on May 25, Wednesday.

In the clearest sign yet of the existence of a Hindu temple underneath the disputed Gyanvapi structure, new videos and photos surfaced online show Shivling inside the wuzukhana of the mosque, along with the motifs of Swastika, Trishul, Lotus, and Hindu deities engraved on the walls of the basement.

On May 25, an 18-year-old gunman identified as Salvador Ramos killed 18 children and three adults after killing his own grandmother. He reported his vehicle and entered the school, where he opened fire on the students.

Photograph of a sculpture of Kurmavatara (tortoise incarnation of Vishnu), from Garhwa, Allahabad District, taken by Joseph David Beglar in the 1870s.

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the order of the Orissa High Court not restraining the State government from carrying out excavation work around Shree Jagannath temple at Puri in Odisha alleging that the said excavation poses a serious threat to the temple.