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October 25, 2026
Faith meets art: How a Muslim artiste defied communal divides to play Durga
Yakshagana artiste Arshiya Khan made history by becoming the first Muslim woman to perform as Goddess Durga in the traditional dance-drama Sri Devi Mahatme at Mangaluru's historic Kadri Manjunatheswara Temple
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September 02, 2026
Self-styled transgender 'Aghori', Kali Nand Giri arrested after video shows her allegedly consuming 'human remains'
A transgender individual, self-proclaimed Aghori Kali Nand Giri, was arrested in Ujjain after she posted a video showing her allegedly consuming human remains at a crematorium
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June 27, 2026
Artificial intelligence and being: An inquiry into Islamic intellectual tradition
AI, when viewed through Islamic cosmology, enacts a metaphysical inversion by subordinating the sacred hierarchy of being to computational logic, disrupting the divinely ordered creation (nizam) and balance (mizan)
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June 16, 2026
Viral video shows IAF officer’s wife pleading during alleged religious conversion in Nagpur; Two arrested, one absconding
A viral video shows a woman asking to be released as a man chants religious verses and does a ritual over her
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May 16, 2026
Day after HC order, Hindu devotees gather at Bhojshala complex to offer prayers; Muslim leaders to take matter to SC
The Bhojshala complex, a site in Madhya Pradesh, has been declared a temple by the High Court, allowing Hindu devotees daily worship. The Muslim community however, is planning to challenge the order in the Supreme Court
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April 21, 2026
Netizens divided after BJP leader Nazia Khan barges into Mumbai Lenskart, applies tilak on staff amid bindi-hijab style policy row
Netizens were divided after a Mumbai BJP leader, Nazia Elahi Khan, confronted a Lenskart store manager in Andheri, over an outdated grooming policy that reportedly restricted religious symbols like tilak and bindi for employees while allowing others like turbans and hijab
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February 28, 2026
How 6,000 cameras and real-time AI are revolutionizing pilgrim management at Tirumala temple
Live monitoring, weather alerts, heat-mapping crowd density—how the Tirumala temple is using artificial intelligence to improve pilgrim experience
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January 24, 2026
Global Buddhist Summit 2026 opens in Delhi, turns lens on contemporary issues
The two-day conference brings together Buddhist leaders, policymakers, and scholars under the theme, ‘Collective Wisdom, United Voice, and Mutual Coexistence’
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January 20, 2026
'No child should feel isolated for faith': Advocacy body after 8-year-old Hindu boy forced to leave London school for wearing Tilak
An eight-year-old Hindu boy was forced to leave a London school after facing alleged discrimination for wearing a Tilak Chandlo, a Hindu religious mark on the forehead
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January 11, 2026
Recalling a lost inheritance: Tracing India's intellectual amnesia in Shashi Ranjan Kumar's 'The Decline of Hindu Civilisation'
In 'The Decline of Hindu Civilisation', author and senior bureaucrat Shashi Ranjan Kumar argued that India continues to celebrate fragments of its past without understanding the intellectual systems that once sustained them
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October 14, 2025
Why did Kerala High Court grant police protection for church-run school after hijab protests?
A church-run school in Ernakulam was shut for two days amid protests, after a Muslim student was denied entry for wearing a hijab. The High Court in Kerala offered police protection to the school after its management filed a plea