France investigates removal of female Eiffel Tower staff for Hindu group's visit
The mayor of Paris announced an investigation into why female staff at the Eiffel Tower were taken off duty for a visit from a Hindu religious group.
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The mayor of Paris announced an investigation into why female staff at the Eiffel Tower were taken off duty for a visit from a Hindu religious group.
Demonstrators confronted New York Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander this weekend over his stance on Israel while he was protesting a Hindu nationalist's appearance at Madison Square Garden. Lander joins "The Takeout" to discuss the incident.
Around 25,000 people gathered Saturday at a popular Hindu temple in southern India.
A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the northern city of Prayagraj.
India's Supreme Court has warned state authorities that bulldozing illegally constructed homes in an "arbitrary pick and choose" way is an abuse of their powers.
Indian officials have confirmed scores of deaths after a crowd attending a Hindu religious event reportedly started running to leave at the end, leading to a crush.
Indian police say militants attacked a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in the Kashmir region, where Muslim separatists have operated for decades.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured a third term in office, but hundreds of millions of eligible voters handed his party and its allies a substantially reduced mandate. Avantika Chilkoti, international correspondent for The Economist, joins CBS News to break down the results.
Election results show Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to continue his long reign, but with a smaller mandate than predicted.
Millions of Indians are voting in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election in the searing summer heat.
The festival, which marks the arrival of spring, involve families and friends smearing powdered colors on each others' faces and drenching each other in colored water.
Declaring it the "beginning of a new era," Indian leader Narendra Modi has inaugurated a massive new Hindu temple on the site of a razed mosque.
Biden administration says India voiced "surprise and concern" over allegations of a possible link to a murder plot against Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
The completion of the second largest Hindu temple in the world opened on Sunday. Many celebrating the monumental day during a Grand Dedication Ceremony.
"Hit him harder," the teacher is heard telling one student as their Muslim classmate stood crying in the viral video.
At least 1 person is dead and 20 injured in Muslim-Hindu violence that quickly spread to neighboring districts in Haryana state and the capital Delhi.
Police say the pair designed the device so their heads would roll into a fire altar, completing their sacrificial ritual.
"The accused apparently believed that the sacrifice would appease the soul" of his late brother, according to the head of the local police force.
The collapse came as Hindu devotees flocked to the temple to mark Ram Navami, celebrated as the birthday of the god Ram.
Amid online ridicule, a government agency dropped its campaign to replace the romantic tradition imported from the West with a more Hindu-themed holiday.