When AI takes over, India will emerge as most influential civilisation: Report

IANS | November 4, 2025 9:22 PM

New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) When machines or artificial intelligence (AI) replace human effort, humanity would be forced inward, seeking meaning rather than material survival, and in that world, India -- not China or the West -- could emerge as the most influential civilisation through its millennia-long engagement with the nature of consciousness, according to a new report.

Blind Pakistani Christian charged with blasphemy after harassment by co-workers

IANS | November 2, 2025 5:58 PM

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) A 49-year-old blind Christian man in Lahore has been arrested and charged under Pakistan’s most severe blasphemy statute, after a Muslim coworker accused him of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, an allegation his family says is fabricated and rooted in harassment and extortion. 

FairPoint: Forgotten cries for justice from 1984 to Kashmiri Hindu exodus

Deepika Bhan | November 2, 2025 4:57 PM

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) It is never easy for a serving Union Minister to speak publicly about the pain inflicted upon him and his community during a period of mass violence carried out in revenge. Yet Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri recently did just that, recalling the horror of the genocide-like situation the Sikh community faced after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.

RSS added 10,000 new Shakhas in last 1 year: Dattatreya Hosabale

IANS | November 1, 2025 11:03 PM

Jabalpur, Nov 1 (IANS) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary, Dattatreya Hosabale, said on Saturday that the organisation has successfully added 10,000 new locations for Sangh's work since the last meeting held in October 2024.

RSS does not function on caste lines: Dattatreya Hosabale

IANS | November 1, 2025 8:49 PM

Jabalpur, Nov 1 (IANS) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary, Dattatreya Hosabale, said on Saturday that the caste-based census should serve its real purpose and it shouldn’t be politically motivated, asserting that the Sangh does not function on caste lines.