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28 deaths in Assam’s detention camps, minister tells Rajya Sabha

Twenty-eight people have died in Assam’s detention camps where suspected immigrants are confined, but these were not because of pressure or fear, the government...

UP Police accuse pastor of forced conversions, refuse to provide evidence

Police stormed and stopped Sunday worship at pastor Khaia's church and took him to the local police station. They would not say who had complained against him, or if they had any proof of his alleged wrong-doing

‘The (Muslim) girl was after all causing this trouble. I took my gun and...

Chilling incident excerpted from Krishna Gopal Rastogi's autobiography, "Aap Beeti"; Chapter Titled "Pracharak Ka Jeevan".

How The Congress Party protected Golwalkar in 1947

Excerpted from the autobiography of the first Home Secretary of UP, Rajeshwar Dayal, titled "A Life Of Our Times".

Emergency orders misused to harass Christians in Jammu and Kashmir

Increased security measures since the August 5 clampdown in Jammu and Kashmir are being used by radical Hindu nationalists to harass the state’s Christian community. The police are complicit in the harassment

Using the NRC as a Hindu nationalist tool

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam state is being used to mark non-documented citizens as ‘infiltrators’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ and thus ineligible for registration. Such a system has been a long-standing demand of the local Assamese in order to protect their language, land and culture from ‘outsiders’ — primarily referring to the Bengali speaking population. This system is now being promoted by Hindu nationalists aiming to spread their ideology through India.

‘All-India NRC would turn citizens into supplicants’

The Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment followed the logic of the original Ram Janmabhoomi campaigners down to the letter: the award of the entire site...

Fear and panic in Assam as millions left off NRC

India's only foreigner detention center which will house illegal immigrants in the north-eastern state of Assam will be operational early next year.  Nearly two...

NRC: Why is India making its own people stateless?

DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 1.9 million people living in Assam, a state of about 33 million in northeastern India, effectively became stateless recently....

Religious Freedom in India on downward trend: UCIRF Report 2019

In 2018, religious freedom conditions in India continued a downward trend. India has a long history as a secular democ- racy where religious communities...

Religious freedom implications of India’s NCR: USCIRF

Overview On August 31, 2019, the government of the northeastern Indian state of Assam released an updated National Register of Citizens (NRC), originally introduced in...

RSS-BJP and Bharat Mata in the NorthEast

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a prominent member of the Sangh Parivar, emerged as the single largest political party in India, winning the general...

UP Government plans anti-conversion law to target Muslims, Christians

On November 21, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government of India’s Uttar Pradesh state proposed a draft bill that would regulate religious conversions...

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