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Two lynched in West Bengal over suspicion of cow theft

The accused have been arrested on charges of murder, and more charges are likely to be added, the officer said.

Two lynched in Bengal’s Coochbehar district over suspicion of cattle theft

COOCH BEHAR/KOLKATA: Two persons were lynched over suspicion of cattle theft at Cooch Behar district in the wee hours of Thursday. The victims, Prakash...

Alwar: Order asking 9 Muslim cops to shave beard axed

An order, circulated on Thursday by the Superintendent of Police Anil Deshmukh, had asked nine policemen to shave their beards so that they acted...

AASU takes out rally in Assam against Citizenship Amendment Bill

The student body leaders said that Assam and the North Eastern region are not the dumping ground of illegal Bangladeshis.

Assam farmers’ body, ULFA protest against Citizenship Amendment Bill

People are carrying out massive protests in Assam and other parts of North East against the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. On Friday Assam's farmers organisation...

‘Violence against Christians has more than doubled under Modi as PM’

Christians in India suffered 247 instances of persecution in just the first eight months of 2019. But police filed FIRs only in 28 cases. Pastors say police are hand-in-glove with the Hindu nationalists behind the violence

Manusmriti: Regressive mindset, discriminatory laws for Dalits and women

Laws of Manu Concerning Dalits/Untouchables  For the sake of the prosperity of the worlds (the divine one) caused the Brahmana, the Kshatriya, the Vaisya,...

BHU sacks Muslim Sanskrit lecturer after protests by Hindu students

It's getting harder by the day to figure out the self-appointed custodians of Indian culture. On the one hand, they are forcing Muslims to...

The Return of Manu

This story appeared in many publications on the eve of 55th anniversary (2004) of the Indian Republic. There was BJP government in Madhya Pradesh...

Anti-national game-plan of the RSS and other like-minded offshoots

It is time to be concerned about the increasing threats to the democratic-secular Indian polity from the Hindutva organizations. This document lists and counters...

Allies, opposition express concern after Amit Shah’s pan-India NRC statement

Attacking the BJP, Mamata Banerjee said that before talking about implementing NRC in West Bengal, the saffron party should answer why 14 lakh Hindus and Bengalis were omitted from the final NRC list in Assam

Gau rakshak economy at root of lynching

The cold truth is that Pehlu Khan invited his doom by avoiding payment of the exaggerated rates of cattle transportation. He fell prey to the compulsions of the gau rakshak economy. Now, cow politics, in the face of the verdict of acquittal, has resurrected his lynching all over again

Police complicit in cow vigilante violence against minorities: Human Rights Watch

On March 18, 2016, a group of men murdered two Muslim cattle herders who were on their way to sell bulls at an animal...

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