Indian govt abusing anti-terror law UAPA to imprison activists, critics: US, UK legal experts
India is abusing its anti-terrorism law to imprison human rights defenders and civil activists for years on false charges, without bail or even a...
2 years of caste discrimination: Assistant Professor quits IIT Madras
Another case of casteism has now come to light from one of India’s premier institutes, IIT. Vipin Pudiyath Veetil, an assistant professor in Indian...
The Absurdity of Claim That 1,000 Hindus Were ‘Forced’ to Become Muslims
By Shaheen Nazar
UMAR GAUTAM is the latest victim of Islamophobia in our country. Last year, it was Tablighi Jamaat through which the entire Muslim...
RSS-BJP Vision of Hinduism Poses A Threat to World Peace
BY DR ASLAM ABDULLAH
HINDU religious leaders have to decide whether they would allow their faith to become an instrument of hate and violence, or...
SKM files FIR against BJP goons for disrupting Ghazipur protest site
Over the last few weeks, farmers protesting at Delhi borders have reported regular harassment from miscreants demanding that the protest sites near the national...
With 2% convictions, India’s terror law more a ‘political weapon’
By Bilal Kuchay
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – When a court in India’s metropolis of Mumbai acquitted Mohammad Irfan of “terrorism” and other charges on June 15, he...
Eight arrested for forcing Dalit teen to prostrate
Eight persons of an intermediate caste were arrested at Vandal village in Nagapattinam district on Friday for allegedly forcing a 17-year-old Dalit teen to...
Attacked by Brahmins for Using the Village Well, Dalit Community in Jammu Lives in...
Jammu: Members of the Dalit Mahasha community of Malarh village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district have been living in a state of constant fear...
Anti-Muslim Discrimination Under Modi Is Getting Worse
BY KHALED SAFFURI
ince the 1947 partition, India has grappled with the issue of sectarianism. Hindus and Muslims enjoy what can best be termed a...
India’s Hindutva Hardliners Treat Religious Conversion as Security Threat
By Asim Ali
Last week, the Uttar Pradesh government dispatched its Anti-Terror Squad to New Delhi to hunt down two Muslim preachers it accused of orchestrating large-scale...
Persecution of minorities in India systematic and condoned, says new report
By REBECCA PAVELEY
RELIGIOUS minorities in India are facing “systematic persecution” at the hands of Hindu nationalists, which is condoned by the authorities, the police, and the media, new...
SC decision on dropping of KCOCA against Lankesh’s killer key to probe
The outcome of the plea filed by slain journalist Gauri Lankesh’s sister, challenging the dropping of charges under the Karnataka Control of Organized Crime...
Openly gang rape Muslim women: BJP Mahila Morcha leader instigates sexual violence on FB
New Delhi: Ruling party BJP’s Mahila Morcha leader in UP’s Ramkola Sunita Singh Gaur was reportedly removed from her position for instigating rape and...