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India must repeal CAA, stop crackdown on protesters, Amnesty International tells...

‘CAA-NRC will create the world’s biggest crisis of statelessness’ Washington, D.C.: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi must repeal the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and stop the...

‘Bullets will surely work if someone doesn’t listen to reason,’ says...

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister claimed at another rally that the anti-CAA protestors at Shaheen Bagh resent India’s rise on the global stage. Uttar Pradesh...

Delhi riots: Death toll up to 38, more than 350 hurt

DELHI NEWS Delhi riots: Death toll up to 38, more than 350 hurt Nine persons died at the hospital during treatment. One more person died at...

From 1984 to 2020: A tale of two ‘riots’

The images of burnt cars, plumes of smoke engulfing the Delhi sky and men throwing petrol bombs at shrines that played out on social...

Burqa-clad women were actually male RSS workers’

PANAJI: The clusters of burqa-wearing women at the Modi rally were actually RSS workers brought by BJP to show that the muslim community is...

The erosion of secular India Many Muslims resent Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist...

RIGHT AFTER winning independence in 1947, India did two crucial things. It gave all citizens the right to vote, and it adopted a secular...

Aligarh: Anti-CAA protesters warned they may lose property, notices being sent...

ALIGARH: District authorities are issuing notices to about 1,000 people sitting on an anti-CAA dharna here, warning that they may lose their property if...

Fact-finding Report from UP: Young Victims of State Violence Narrate Ordeal

Close to 41 minors were or are still detained and subjected to custodial torture for participating in anti-CAA protests in the state, the report...

How Gujarat ‘Model of Hate’ Is Unraveling In Its Cradle?

AHMEDABAD, FEBRUARY 4—Gujarat, which is quite often known as the laboratory of Hindutva, is the home turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union...

‘Even Children Were Not Spared’: Students Recount Mob Attack, Arson that...

New Delhi: Mohammad Anas, 12, stood out in his white kurta and skull cap inside the dark and sooty Jamiat-Ul-Huda Madrasa, which is charred beyond...

Mob attack on Muslim man in India’s capital captured in dramatic...

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An 85-year-old woman was burnt to death in her home in...

  By Aarefa Johari At around noon on February 25, when Mohammed Saeed Salmani was out buying milk for his family, he received a call from...

Supreme Court judges gushing over Modi is a problem for judiciary...

Modi’s praise by the judges shows that the so-called church-state separation in the context of the judiciary is blurring, undermining its credibility. Prime Minister Narendra...

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