Surat court temporarily halts a Jain girl's monk initiation after her father claims mother's decision violates his wishes.

On December 22, Surat family court Judge S V Mansuri passed an order halting the Diksha ceremony of the girl on the petition ...

The development is part of the father's petition seeking custody of his children aged five and seven years old from his estranged wife of over a year.

Mumbai: In preparation for their diksha or religious initiation, 59 Jain mumukshu - seekers of spiritual knowledge and truth - received the muhurat from their guru in a ceremony in Mumbai on Sunday.

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh): Leaving behind today's life of luxury, nine youths from affluent families have chosen the difficult path of detachment for self-welfare. Due to their strong determination to ...

When the 'plastic king' rode on a specially designed 'ship' and tossed packets containing gold coins and keys of brand new cars into the crowds in a Ahmedabad ground on May 31, he lived up to his ...

Mumbai: A 59-year-old Mumbai-based diamond merchant, Yatrik Zaveri, took diksha on Sunday, to become a Jain monk. Diksha is the initiation ceremony in Jainism. Mr Yatrik is a partner in one of India's ...

30-year-old Sweety, wife of a businessman named Manish from Karnataka, and their 11-year-old son Hridhan became Jain monks. The two now reside in Surat. In the Jain community, it is taken in high ...

n a rare act of renunciation, three generations of a Jain family based in Mumbai have simultaneously taken diksha. The Malad (West) family of Sainyam (13), his parents Jayesh Sanghvi (44) and Hetal ...

Vellore will witness this weekend, the first ever celebration of a 23-year-old Vellorean spiritual aspirant, Reshma Jain, embracing nun-hood. Clad in ceremonial bridal attire, perhaps for the first ...

Court steps in after father says seven-year-old cannot consent to lifelong ascetic vows amid bitter parental dispute ...

Surat: The diksha (initiation into monasticism) of a 7-year-old Jain girl was halted after her mother filed an affidavit in a ...