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...
Busting the Myths of Hindutva: The ‘Golden Age’ of the Vedas never existed, was...
The numerous myths of a glorious past on which Hindutva stands is nothing but pure fiction, writes Dr. J. Kuruvachira
When the Dalits were ‘untouchables’ and not counted among Hindus
The possibility of losing a large portion of their official numbers sharpened the minds of high-caste Hindu leaders, who began at this point to vociferously claim Dalits as fellow Hindus and to accuse the colonial state of conspiring to undermine Hinduism by divide-and-rule tactics
Four Kashmiri Students Beaten Up, Attacked With Rods & Knives By A Mob Of...
Four Kashmiri students were beaten up by a mob of close to 70 people in Rajasthan’s Mewar University on November 22. One of the...
SC Ayodhya ruling: CJI Gogoi’s lack of transparency is a moral lapse
Supreme Court has descended into the arena of a communal conflict and stamped a blot on its reputation
Two lynched in West Bengal over suspicion of cow theft
The accused have been arrested on charges of murder, and more charges are likely to be added, the officer said.
Two lynched in Bengal’s Coochbehar district over suspicion of cattle theft
COOCH BEHAR/KOLKATA: Two persons were lynched over suspicion of cattle theft at Cooch Behar district in the wee hours of Thursday. The victims, Prakash...
Alwar: Order asking 9 Muslim cops to shave beard axed
An order, circulated on Thursday by the Superintendent of Police Anil Deshmukh, had asked nine policemen to shave their beards so that they acted...
