In two separate events in Juhu and Bhiwandi, four young women, all under the age of 21, from the community renounced the worldly desires and embraced monkhood to lead a spiritual life. The Jain ...

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.

Aday after the Bombay High Court compared child diksha in Jainism to sati pratha, the Jain community stands divided over the issue. Defending child diksha, the Derawasi Jain Samaj is already planning ...

New Delhi [India], January 29: Mumbai is set to witness a historic and unprecedented spiritual event. The Jain Diksha Mahotsav 2026 is being organized for the first time on such a grand and ...

In the Jain community, it is taken in high regard when an individual decides to become a monk. To do so, they must follow the teachings of Jain Gods and abandon even the most basic necessities of the ...

Family court judge SV Mansuri granted a stay on her 'diksha', which was scheduled on February 8, 2026, in Mumbai. "The court granted our plea for an interim stay on the girl's 'diksha' and kept ...

Ahmedabad: Krish Sanghvi, an IT engineer from the University of Mumbai, shunned his worldly possessions and donned the whites of a Jain monk in the city on Thursday. The youth from Bhayandar in Mumbai ...

Mohali: Governor of Punjab and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria on Thursday participated in a Jain Bhagwati Diksha ceremony held at Mubarakpur in Derabassi. Punjab chief minister was also present ...

Jain community groups have offered to educate and take care of Shubham Jain, the 9-year-old boy rescued last Saturday by police before he could be ordained as a monk, till he turns 18. However, they ...

A family court in Gujarat’s Surat city on Monday stayed ‘diksha’ (religious initiation) of a seven-year-old Jain girl after her father filed a plea claiming his estranged wife had gone against his ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...