Alaska Airlines announced on Wednesday that it would discontinue its decades-old tradition of handing out prayer cards with meals.
By her own standards, Dalit queen Kumari Mayawati's birthday celebrations were low-key this year because of the assembly elections. The huge crowds of gaping admirers were missing this year.
President Barack Obama sure does have a knack for contradicting himself.
A lawsuit was filed in California against comedian Jay Leno, over a Mitt Romney joke, which showed a picture of the religion's holy Golden Temple of Amritsar as the presidential candidate summer home. The plaintiff, Indian-American Randeep Dhillon, called it a racist slur against Sikhs.
An Indian couple's fight with the Norwegian government appears to be coming to an end after authorities have agreed to handover the children to their grandparents in Kolkata, India.
The Westboro Baptist Church, known for its infamous God Hates Fags slogan and unwelcome funeral pickets, has announced that it will protest at the funeral of renowned Penn State football coach, Joe Paterno.
Jay Leno Outrages Sikhs With Joke Referring to Golden Temple
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The comment by the U.S. comedian Jay Leno on the Golden Temple of Amritsar, which is the holiest Sikh shrine, has been condemned by India.
After global protests on Wednesday which saw darkened Websites like Wikipedia and BoingBoing and a “virtual” strike by Google, on Friday SOPA, a creature of the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the Senate, were essentially smothered.
Best-selling Indian writer Chetan Bhagat on Saturday criticised the support leant to authors whose books are banned for offending religious communities, a day after Salman Rushdie cancelled his trip to Jaipur citing death threat warning.
Three Muslim men in England were convicted of hate crimes for saying that homosexuals should be put to death.
Healthcare plans are required to cover birth control without charging any co-pays or deductibles starting Aug. 1, President Obama announced on Friday.
Novelist Salman Rushdie has canceled his appearance at the Jaipur Literary Festival after he was warned by police about assassination threats.
Bangladesh Special Forces on Friday arrested five members of a banned Islamic group accused of supporting a coup attempt last month, a spokesman said.
Salman Rushdie will not attend the Jaipur Literature Festival after authorities warned the controversial author he was a potential target of assassins at the event, following threats of protests from Muslim groups at his planned appearance.
The South Carolina primary is on Saturday, and only four candidates -- Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum -- remain. Here are five things to look for when the results come in.
The Garden-Webb University student collapsed in class on Jan. 17 and died on her 21st birthday, only a few hours after tweeting, Thank you God for another year of life. A Facebook memorial has already been erected for Patterson, as a spokeswoman reveals the reason for her tragic death during a religion class at the Boiling Springs remains a complete mystery.
The plot to overthrow Hasina was hatched by Bangladeshis living abroad.
Veteran dissident has been indicted by Chinese authorities on charges of attempting to subvert the state for writing a poem urging people to gather to defend their freedoms, his lawyer said Tuesday, the latest in a string of indictments or trials of popular dissidents this year.
During last night's Republican debate in South Carolina, Congressman Ron Paul was booed for advocating the Golden Rule in foreign policy.
In a 2009 interview Rabczewska said she doubted the Christian holy book because it's hard to believe in something that was written be someone drunk on wine and smoking some herbs, according to The Associated Press.
