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India’s Police Brutality Targets Muslims And Journalists As Hindu Nationalism Grows

(OPINION) Recently, a shocking video of the American police went viral in which a police officer is seen kneeling on the neck of a...

Adivasi Christians face widespread persecution in Chhattisgarh, pressurised into ghar vapsi

By AATHIRA KONIKKARA According to a pastor from Sukma district in rural Chhattisgarh—who wished to remain anonymous—a mob attacked the home of two Christian Adivasi...

Mob beats 35-year-old Muslim man to death in Saharanpur, police dismiss...

By BISMEE TASKIN New Delhi: A 35-year-old Muslim man named Israr was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district last Thursday, and a video...

OpIndia: Hate speech, vanishing advertisers, and an undisclosed BJP connection

“In India, politics and journalism attract some of the worst brains, thanks to the system that has evolved over time,” read the About Us...

Prof. sparks backlash for tweeting spread of COVID-19 in India is...

By Hadriana Lowenkron Amid global protests for racial justice and ongoing discriminatory effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Penn professor's controversial tweets about current events have recently surfaced...

Muslim man called “terrorist”, lynched in Saharanpur

On June 21, a video of a Muslim man being lynched emerged. Turns out the man was lynched by a mob in western Uttar...

The 1984 Sikh Genocide – 36 Years On

36 years have passed since ‘Operation Blue Star’, when Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, ordered an attack on the Sikh Golden...

Christian Man Brutally Murdered for His Faith by Radicals in India

By (International Christian Concern) According to Christian News, a 27-year-old Christian, named Kande Mudu, was attacked and murdered by a group of armed men in...

News 18’s Amish Devgan rakes up Kashi-Mathura debate, incites anti-minority hate

At a time when the country is reeling under a pandemic and when the economy is failing miserably, some news channels in India are...

India’s Islamophobia Creeps Into Nepal

BY ARUN BUDHATHOKIKATHMANDU, Nepal—In Nepal, Muslims, who make up about 4 percent of the population, have lived peacefully alongside the majority Hindu population for centuries,...

‘Mosque In Delhi’s Dwarka Attacked Yet Again’

by Asad Ashraf Four months later after the last attack on Mosque at sector 11 Dwarka in the heart of India’s capital New Delhi, Hindutva vigilantes...

Church in India Set on Fire by Suspected Radical Hindu Nationalist

By (International Christian Concern) On June 12, 2020, an independent church in the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India, was set on fire on Friday...

Arundhati Roy: Indian Muslims facing ‘genocidal climate’ amid pandemic

India’s coronavirus lockdown, which began in March, has been one of largest and strictest in the world. It has left tens of millions without...

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