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UP police accused of stripping cleric

A bedridden Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, 66, both arms and both legs bandaged, “sobs in his sleep” and refuses to “show his face” to...

Muslim fury grows after protest deaths in Meerut, UP: Reuters

Meerut, India (Reuters) - Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke...

‘Hit on knee and in stomach’ — women narrate ‘violence’ by...

Lucknow: The women of Old Lucknow are petrified, shaken and furious at the lack of safety even within the four walls of their homes. Amid the...

Six million people ‘de-notified’; tribals may lose citizenship in Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: With the implementation of National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizenship (NRC), the denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of Madhya Pradesh,...

In anti-CAA protests Indian democracy Is fighting back: The Atlantic

The protesters are trying to save a liberal India—and keep bigotry from becoming the law of the country.

For Muslims in India ‘entire neighborhoods have gone empty in fear’

New Delhi — When Indian police barged into the university library where Rohool Banka was studying, the 25-year-old student, a self-described proud Muslim, decided...

Two men killed by police in UP’s Bijnor during anti-CAA protests

Bijnor: Two young men, Suleiman and Anas, were killed in Nehtaur on the day protests were held against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in different...

19 dead, 1,113 arrested, 5,558 detained in UP in anti-CAA protests

Lucknow: More than 1,100 people are under arrest and 5,558 kept in preventive detention following violence related to the anti-citizenship amendment act protests, officials...

Police bullet killed a man during anti-CAA stir in UP’s Bijnor,...

A senior cop has admitted that one of the two men killed during the recent anti-CAA stir was shot by a police bullet.

‘You’ve only two places, Pakistan or Kabristan’

No septuagenarian wails before a stranger without reason. Haji Hamid Hasan, a 72-year-old timber trader in Muzaffarnagar town in western Uttar Pradesh, said nearly 30...

Army Chief Bipin Rawat slams anti-CAA protests, sparks row

Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat waded into a controversy on Thursday with his remarks that leadership is not about leading people — including students in universities...

Indian university to teach doctors Ghost Studies

A prestigious Indian university is offering a certificate course to teach doctors how to treat people who claim to see or be possessed by...

CAA: UP Police Shot And Killed Muslims Who Weren’t Even Protesting,...

By Betwa Sharma NEW DELHI — As protests continue across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the state...

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