Varanasi: A woman from Kolkata alleged sexual harassment by a sadhu in the name of giving her diksha (initiation for learning). ACP Dashaswamedh Dhananjay Mishra said on Tuesday that based on the ...

Hearing a plea by the parents of a 16-year-old boy who recently took diksha, the Bombay High Court has ordered the appointment of a three-member committee to speak to the child and has urged that an ...

Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad—the apex body of Hindu Sants in India— has decided to be more careful than ever while choosing candidates for ‘Sanyas Diksha’. In the light of some past incidents that ...

The Bombay high court is likely to take into consideration the religious aspects of Jainism while deciding if a child could be allowed to renounce material world and become a sadhvi or sadhu by taking ...