Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) counter-terrorism unit arrested 34-year-old Redwanul Azad Rana, a former student at the country's top Nor...

Noting that "true secularism" was not being practised, she said both the right to believe in a religion and not to believe in one must be r...

Although Karnataka is ruled by the Congress government, the social and academic laws of the state is governerd by right-wing forces, Rajash...

"I have been living in exile since 1994. I know I have no other alternative but to live in exile for rest of my life. I feel I have nowhere...

The fatwa was issued amidst a spate of killings of writers, bloggers, online activists, and people of different religious and social views ...

Jihadists have been silencing or threatening voices of sanity because democracy and pluralism are anathema to them. All they want is to est...

Responding to a question, she said: "Why secularists in India were questioning only Hindu fundamentalists while leaving alone Muslim fundam...

Suzanne Nosse said US should take the lead to save these bloggers who face the risk of being murdered for the crime of expressing their vie...

Noted writer Shashi Deshpande, said the present scenario bore a "dreadful resemblance" to the McCarthy era in the US, when nobody was exemp...

Anupam Kher alleged that the "award-wapsi" campaign was to defame the country by projecting a "wrong" picture of the situation.

"secularism is under threat like never before and that individual freedom and rights have to be protected even these are guaranteed in the ...

A secular publisher in Bangladesh said he received death threats, a day after a publisher was killed while two bloggers were injured.

"The RSS is not a punching bag for the so-called pseudo secular intolerant people," said Dattatreya Hosabale, joint secretary of RSS.

Eminent author Shashi Deshpande today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident were "far too weak."

Delhi-based Aman Sethi said he too was returning the Sahitya Award he got in 1993, as the "spirit of inquiry is clearly under threat".

Joseph, who won the prestigious honour for her novel 'Aalahayude Penmakkal' (Daughters of God the Father), said she would soon send the cas...

Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death an atheist blogger.