South India

Fifteen student activists belonging to the Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) including its Kerala state committee members were sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a Kerala local court for protesting the hijab ban in a school in Kozhikode district on Monday.

The suicide note by a student of Lovely Professional University, who died Tuesday, triggering a massive protest by fellow students on the campus, has been shared by police.

Popular Front of India Tuesday has condemned the raids by National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the "unjust arrest, harassment,"and "the witch-hunting against the members, and supporters of the organisation" in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

A Muslim student in Providence Girls Higher Secondary School in Kerala's Kozhikode district had to leave the school Tuesday after the school authorities said she would not be allowed to wear hijab. 

The ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday questioned Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan’s meeting with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat in Thrissur on Saturday night.

Four individuals associated with Bajrang Dal were arrested on Thursday in Karnataka's Chikkamagaluru on charges of stopping an inter-faith marriage between a Hindu girl and Muslim boy. The arrested...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday said that the Union government should not attempt to “turn India into Hindia.” He was responding to Home Minister Amit Shah's comments...

Congress leaders have hit back with the 'operation kichad' jibe at the development in Goa and called it a shameful exercise of power and money.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday said he would soon launch a national party and the work is on to formulate policies.

India was not a democracy anymore, said Arundhati Roy, award winning author and activist who delivered the Gauri Lankesh Memorial Lecture in Bengaluru on Monday.

As a result of the third highest single day rainfall Bengaluru has ever recorded, roads were inundated, rainwater entered homes, flights were diverted, public and private vehicles broke down and institutions were shut in the city.

A 19-year-old government college student Mohammed Saneef in Karnataka’s Sullia was assaulted by a few students from the same college and another institute for talking to a Hindu girl on Tuesday.