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When The Professors was first published in February 2006, it was greeted by cries of outrage from the academic Left. The author was denounced as a reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy and his book as a “blacklist,” although no evidence existed to support either claim and both were the opposite of the truth.

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.

Amid the ongoing row over the restoration of 27 Hindu and Jain temples in the Qutub Minar complex, a new controversy has begun in the state of Telangana over the ASI protected heritage structure ‘Charminar’.

On Sunday (May 29), the English daily ‘The Times of India (TOI)’ provided a platform to the Indian-origin British journalist Hasan Suroor to give sermons on secularism. Hasan Suroor was arrested for the sexual grooming of a minor in 2015 but was later acquitted by a UK court.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. In Gandhi’s case, the questions one feels inclined to ask are: to what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity — by the consciousness of himself as a humble, naked old man, sitting on a praying-mat and shaking empires by sheer spiritual power — and to what extent did he compromise his own principles by entering politics, which of their nature are inseparable from coercion and fraud?

‘Valor and Dharma’ are two of a kind for Naga Sadhus. They have been warrior saints and taken on numerous conflicts against Islamic thieves and after that British, in this manner shielded Hindus and temples. Who is curious about the valor of the Naga Sadhus shielding Gokul from the Afghans drove by Sardar Khan?

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.

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has been boasting that they have recovered temple lands worth Rs.2600 crore and even launched a book giving details about it. Temple activists have refuted these claims and accused the DMK government of glossing over the facts in a perceived attempt to be accepted as a pro-Hindu party.

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.