BHOPAL, India, May 2 (UPI) --A sect of the Jain religion in India is petitioning a state government to exempt its monks from expected rules banning defecation in the open -- a practice said to be part ...

MUMBAI, India — The young man sat cross-legged atop a cushioned divan on an ornately decorated stage, surrounded by other Jain monks draped in white cloth. His lip occasionally twitched, his hands lay ...

Mumbai: The Kutchi Jain community living in Mumbai has announced a support fund of Rs 5 crore for the families of Jain monks ...

Mumbai: Jain monk Nileshchandra Vijay began a protest at Mumbai's Azad Maidan on Monday, opposing the civic body's decision to shut down the Dadar Kabutarkhana, a site where the community members have ...

Jain monk Nileshchandra Vijay began an indefinite protest and fast without water at Azad Maidan against the BMC’s closure of Dadar Kabutarkhana. He rejected the civic body’s alternate feeding sites, ...

The Jain community is peaceful but, if needed, it will take up arms for religion, Muni Nileshchandra Vijay has warned Jain monk Muni Nileshchandra Vijay has warned of launching an indefinite hunger ...

In his latest book, British journalist William Dalrymple profiles nine Indian religious devotees — from a Jain nun, to an idol carver, to a... India's Diverse Faiths, As Told Through 'Nine Lives' ...