Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has announced that Scheduled Caste (SC) certificates obtained fraudulently by ...

A major scandal has rocked Thailand's Buddhist clergy, with at least 11 monks accused of sexual misconduct and extortion.

Reverence for the saffron-robed Buddhist monkhood is deeply woven into Thai society, but a sex extortion scandal has ...

Theravada Buddhism has been the spiritual backbone of Thai identity for more than two millennia, and still shapes national ...

Following a wave of monk scandals, Paetongtarn Shinawatra pledges bold reforms to restore Buddhism’s damaged public image.

Fadnavis said that, anyone has won an election using a fraudulently obtained SC certificate, their election will be declared null and void.

Fadnavis further announced the state’s intention to introduce stringent legal provisions to curb religious conversions ...

The case of Wirapol Sukphol, the infamous “jet-set monk” who was sentenced to over 100 years in prison for fraud, money ...

China's insistence that it will identify the next Dalai Lama foreshadows the chance that followers will have to decide who ...

Women should be prosecuted for having sex with monks, Thai politicians have proposed, amid a nationwide scandal over an ...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra pledges to modernise the religion's image, foster understanding between monks and lay followers, and ...