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Dalit Man Beaten For ‘Plucking Leaves’, Kills Himself; 2 Arrested
By Outlook Web Bureau
In a Dalit youth's death case, police officials arrested two persons on charges of abetment to suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur...
Indian state’s “Love Jihad” law denounced by ex-bureaucrats, diplomats in open...
By Saurabh Sharma :
LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to...
Muzaffarnagar riots: UP seeks to withdraw case against 3 BJP MLAs
The Yogi Adityanath government has moved to withdraw a case against BJP leaders, including three MLAs, who are accused of making inflammatory speeches at...
3 Arrested in UP Under Anti-conversion Law for ‘Holding Meet to...
Three people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district under the state's new anti-conversion law, police said on Tuesday.
Balchandra, Gopal Prajapati and Neeraj...
Mangaluru Police Violence: A Year on, Muslim Victims Wait for Names...
By Sukanya Shantha
Mangaluru: “They did what they wanted to, they took away my husband’s life. Now all I hope for is to see my...
Bihar: Muslim man lynched to death in Patna’s Phulwari Sharif over...
A 32-year-old man in Bihar’s Patna was lynched to death by a mob over suspicion of cattle theft on Wednesday. All the accused were...
One Year After Mass Protests, India’s Muslims Still Live in Fear
By Betwa Sharma
Last December, hundreds of thousands of people in cities across India joined in protest against the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The...
Christian Pastor Shot and Killed in India’s Jharkhand State
By (International Christian Concern)
On December 8, a pastor from India’s Jharkhand state was shot dead by unidentified assailants. Although the motive for the murder...
‘Love jihad’: What a reported miscarriage says about India’s anti-conversion law
By Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi
Reports that a pregnant Hindu woman who was forcibly separated from her Muslim husband and may then have miscarried have...
‘Love jihad’: What a reported miscarriage says about India’s anti-conversion law
Earlier this month, a video clip went viral in India.
It showed a group of men, with orange scarves draped around their necks, heckling a...
Muslim Man Lynched in Patna on Suspicion of Cattle Theft; Family...
By Mohd. Imran Khan
Patna: Amid rising crimes in Bihar, yet another case of cattle-related mob lynching has taken place in Patna where a suspected...
Muslims targeted under Indian state’s ‘love jihad’ law
Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent
Hindu rightwing conspiracy theory prompts crackdown on interfaith marriages in Uttar Pradesh
Police in India have rounded up Muslim men and disrupted...
The Indian judiciary didn’t suddenly decline in the Modi years –...
The narrative of decline comes from the fact that arbitrary use of judicial power was largely coded as a good thing earlier. BJP has...
