Hindu Nationalists

The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Tuesday slammed the Congress for promising to ban the Bajrang Dal in Karnataka if voted to power in the state, saying by doing so, the party has defamed a "nationalist" organisation.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday reprimanded foreign newspapers for reserving adjectives like "Hindu nationalist" for the Indian government.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA and former Maharashtra Minister, Jitendra Awhad, has stoked a new controversy by calling Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb "not a Hindu hater".

Indians have the freedom to practice their faith and there is no growing intolerance between religious communities, the country's minority affairs minister said in an interview published on Sunday amid spurts of religious riots across India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the Visva-Bharati University in Bengal on its centenary today, said its iconic founder Rabindranath Tagore's vision was the essence of "Aatmanirbhar Bharat" or self-reliant India. He also said the university evolved from centuries of the Indian ethos and embodied Indian nationalist sentiment during Independe...

Hotstar has left out the latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which dealt with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and several controversies, including PM Modi’s Hindu nationalist beliefs, the RSS’ Hitler ties, dangerous views of those closest to him — Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath — demonetisation, textbook manipul...

Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray played the democracy card today as he sought to defuse tension between his party and the Congress over a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna - the country's highest civilian honour - to Hindu nationalist VD Savarkar

There was tension on the campus of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Tuesday after a photograph of nationalist leader Veer Savarkar was defaced.

Democratic presidential aspirant Tulsi Gabbard has alleged that she had become a victim of "religious bigotry" and some media outlets were targeting her and accusing her supporters, who have Hindu names, of being Hindu nationalists.

The NCP sought on Monday, a ban on the Sanatan Sanstha over its alleged links with a "bomb plot" and the killing of rationalists and opposed the right-wing group's demand to drop the word "secular" from the Constitution.

During the first week of January last year, a group of scholars gathered in a white bungalow on a leafy boulevard in central Delhi. The focus of their discussion: how to rewrite the history of the nation. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quietly appointed the committee of scholars about six months earlier. Details of its existence...

The assertion of Dalits and celebration of the Koregaon Battle as Vijay Diwas can be viewed as rupturing the dominant right-wing Hindu nationalist narrative and challenging the conventional narrative of anti-colonialism.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was "deeply pained and anguished" by the "falsehood and canards being spread to score political points by none less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi" and called for an apology as an unprecedented war of words exploded between a prime minister and his predecessor in the backdrop of the bitterly-contested...

The Archbishop of Gandhinagar Thomas Macwan, has in a letter all but made a vote appeal without naming any political party or leader, but pointedly saying, "Nationalist forces are on the verge of taking over the country. The elections of Gujarat State Assembly can make a difference!" It is seen as a reference to the state's ruling party, the BJP, t...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi received an invitation today from RSS leader Indresh Kumar to attend the organization's shakhas or meetings. "That will help him learn about India," said Mr Kumar in an interview to NDTV.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Tuesday slammed the Congress for promising to ban the Bajrang Dal in Karnataka if voted to power in the state, saying by doing so, the party has defamed a "nationalist" organisation.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday reprimanded foreign newspapers for reserving adjectives like "Hindu nationalist" for the Indian government.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA and former Maharashtra Minister, Jitendra Awhad, has stoked a new controversy by calling Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb "not a Hindu hater".

Indians have the freedom to practice their faith and there is no growing intolerance between religious communities, the country's minority affairs minister said in an interview published on Sunday amid spurts of religious riots across India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the Visva-Bharati University in Bengal on its centenary today, said its iconic founder Rabindranath Tagore's vision was the essence of "Aatmanirbhar Bharat" or self-reliant India. He also said the university evolved from centuries of the Indian ethos and embodied Indian nationalist sentiment during Independe...

Hotstar has left out the latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which dealt with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and several controversies, including PM Modi’s Hindu nationalist beliefs, the RSS’ Hitler ties, dangerous views of those closest to him — Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath — demonetisation, textbook manipul...

Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray played the democracy card today as he sought to defuse tension between his party and the Congress over a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna - the country's highest civilian honour - to Hindu nationalist VD Savarkar

There was tension on the campus of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Tuesday after a photograph of nationalist leader Veer Savarkar was defaced.

Democratic presidential aspirant Tulsi Gabbard has alleged that she had become a victim of "religious bigotry" and some media outlets were targeting her and accusing her supporters, who have Hindu names, of being Hindu nationalists.

The NCP sought on Monday, a ban on the Sanatan Sanstha over its alleged links with a "bomb plot" and the killing of rationalists and opposed the right-wing group's demand to drop the word "secular" from the Constitution.

During the first week of January last year, a group of scholars gathered in a white bungalow on a leafy boulevard in central Delhi. The focus of their discussion: how to rewrite the history of the nation. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quietly appointed the committee of scholars about six months earlier. Details of its existence...

The assertion of Dalits and celebration of the Koregaon Battle as Vijay Diwas can be viewed as rupturing the dominant right-wing Hindu nationalist narrative and challenging the conventional narrative of anti-colonialism.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was "deeply pained and anguished" by the "falsehood and canards being spread to score political points by none less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi" and called for an apology as an unprecedented war of words exploded between a prime minister and his predecessor in the backdrop of the bitterly-contested...

The Archbishop of Gandhinagar Thomas Macwan, has in a letter all but made a vote appeal without naming any political party or leader, but pointedly saying, "Nationalist forces are on the verge of taking over the country. The elections of Gujarat State Assembly can make a difference!" It is seen as a reference to the state's ruling party, the BJP, t...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi received an invitation today from RSS leader Indresh Kumar to attend the organization's shakhas or meetings. "That will help him learn about India," said Mr Kumar in an interview to NDTV.