Religion Archive

"Vipul Amrutlal Shah's 'The Kerala Story' Trailer Shows Thought-Provoking, Hard-Hitting Stories Behind the 32,000 Women Going Missing in the Indian Southern State of Kerala" from Koimoi.

Jantar Mantar is a group of astronomical observatories built in the early 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II, a ruler of the Rajput kingdom of Amber, in what is now Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. The observatory at Jaipur is the largest and most well-known of the five observatories built by Jai Singh II and is home to the world's largest sundial.

Following the discovery of alcohol and condoms in the principal’s room, a missionary school in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh has been sealed. The State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (SCPRC) conducted the surprise inspection on Saturday, March 25. Premium liquor bottles and packets of condoms were recovered from a room next to the library, which is sometimes used by the school principal.

Khalistan sympathizer and fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh had set up a temporary ‘shooting range’ at his native village Jallupur Khera in Punjab’s Amritsar district, where he was training his aides for setting up his militia, the ‘Anandpur Khalsa Fauj’ (AKF). The Waris Punjab De’ chief had been targeting drug addicts and rogue ex-servicemen to help him build a gang that could be easily transformed into a terrorist outfit, according to police.

Recently, reports started surfacing that Islamic preacher Zakir Naik is likely to be deported from the Sultanate of Oman to India. Many media outlets claimed that Indian Intelligence Agencies were in conversation with the authorities in Oman to detain Zakir Naik during his visit to the country.

Nagercoil (Tamil Nadu): A special team of police on Tuesday arrested a priest, who had been on the run in connection with a sexual assault case. The accused has been identified as Fr Benedict Anto, a Catholic priest who was serving as a priest in the church for many years. Earlier, several obscene photos and videos of the priest had emerged on social media after his phone and laptops were allegedly stolen.

The existence of Martial arts in India for over 3000 years can be proved by the mention of martial arts in the Vedas. According to ancient folklore, Lord Vishnu’s disciple Parasurama who was an avatar of Lord Vishnu is believed to be the founder of martial arts in India. Kalaripayattu, which is the most popular amongst many martial arts practiced in India, is believed to have been founded by Parasurama.

Anuradha Rao was one of the lucky survivors of the tsunami that devastated the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago in 2004. Alongside the loss of human lives, there was large-scale destruction of pristine jungles, endemic wildlife, and historical sites.

WARANGAL: A post-graduate (PG) first-year student of the Kakatiya Medical College (KMC), Dharavathi Preethi, on Wednesday attempted suicide due to alleged harassment by her senior by injecting herself with a heavy dose of suspected anesthesia medicine in the MGM Hospital, where she is doing her internship.

A Palestinian man on Sunday was sentenced to life imprisonment plus an additional 20 years for the rape and murder of Israeli teenager Ori Ansbacher in February 2019 in a Jerusalem forest.