Inside India’s RSS, the legion of Hindu ultranationalists
- 29-Oct-2025
Nagpur: Brandishing bamboo sticks and chanting patriotic hymns, thousands of uniformed men parade in central India, a striking show of strength by the country’s millions-strong Hindu ultranationalist group. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — the National Volunteer Organisation, or RSS — marked its 100th anniversary this month with a grand ceremony at its headquarters in Nagpur. […]
India court acquits 69 Hindus of murder of 11 Muslims during Gujarat massacre
- 21-Apr-2023
An Indian court on Thursday acquitted 69 Hindus, including a former minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of the murder of 11 Muslims during riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002. The killings occurred in Ahmedabad on Feb. 28, 2002, one of India’s worst outbreaks of religious bloodshed. A total of […]
Khawaja Saad Rafique terms PTI as ‘RSS of Pakistan’
- 17-Mar-2023
LAHORE: Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique on Friday lambasted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said that the authorities giving him undue relief and termed PTI as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of Pakistan, ARY News reported. Addressing a press conference, Khawaja Saad Rafique stated PTI is RSS – a Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation in […]
Opinion: RSS and its growing influence in India
- 13-Sep-2022
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu fundamentalist organisation in India working for the promotion of Hindutva that stands for hegemonic Hinduism and this connotation is verified by the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations stating that Hindutva ‘has fascist undertones’. That is precisely what liberal analysts in India have repeatedly accused […]
Pakistan rejects RSS chief’s ‘provocative, irresponsible remarks’ on partition
- 27-Nov-2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday rejected Hindu hardliner Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s “highly provocative and irresponsible remarks” about the partition. “This is not the first time that the RSS chief has publicly indulged in such delusional thinking and historical revisionism,” the Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement. He said that Pakistan has repeatedly […]
India’s RSS calls for curbs on streaming platforms and cryptocurrencies
- 16-Oct-2021
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), powerful right-wing Hindu group linked to India’s ruling party, BJP, has called for curbs on streaming platforms and cryptocurrencies, saying regulation was essential. “There is a need to regularise these things for the larger good of the society,” said Mohan Bhagwat, head of the RSS, the ideological parent of Indian Prime […]
Church claims attack by Hindu-extremist mob in India
- 04-Oct-2021
Some 200 men armed with rods and sticks stormed a church in Roorkee city of India’s Uttarakhand state during Sunday prayer service, police said, in the latest anti-Christian violence in the officially secular country. At least five people were injured in the attack allegedly carried out by members of hardline Hindu vigilante groups in Uttarakhand […]
Unable to understand RSS campaign against me, tweets Fawad
- 01-Feb-2020
'For India not becoming #Endia it’s important to defeat Modimadness'
Sonakshi Sinha comes out in support of Deepika Padukone
- 08-Jan-2020
"This is not the time to stay quiet," the 'Dabbang actress wrote on Twitter.
PM Imran Khan denounces ‘fascist’ Modi govt’s ‘pogrom of Muslims’
- 04-Jan-2020
'Indian police brutality reaches new lows'