Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty Nithyananda, who claims to be the physical embodiment of Lord Shiva, is the man ...

The Paraguayan government fired a senior official after he signed a deal with the fictional country created by a Hindu cult leader who had fled India. "They came and expressed a wish to help Paraguay, ...

One of India’s self-proclaimed “godmen” has established his own island nation off the coast of Ecuador, and wants to use cryptocurrency as the basis for its economic policy. The republic is described ...

A fugitive Indian guru wanted on charges of rape and abduction in India has announced he is establishing his own country on an island off the coast of Ecuador, reports said. Nithyananda, a self-styled ...

A team sent by a self-proclaimed Indian godman appeared at the United Nations in Geneva last week claiming to represent an island nation off South America that most people had never heard of. Dressed ...

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – Representatives of fugitive self-proclaimed godman Swami Nithyananda‘s fictional nation of ‘Kailasa’ have wormed their way into a UN committee’s discussion on sustainable ...

FALL RIVER — The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, recently admitted that his city was scammed into becoming sister cities with a fictional country by an accused rapist and cult leader from India — and ...