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...
AASU takes out rally in Assam against Citizenship Amendment Bill
The student body leaders said that Assam and the North Eastern region are not the dumping ground of illegal Bangladeshis.
Assam farmers’ body, ULFA protest against Citizenship Amendment Bill
People are carrying out massive protests in Assam and other parts of North East against the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
On Friday Assam's farmers organisation...
‘Violence against Christians has more than doubled under Modi as PM’
Christians in India suffered 247 instances of persecution in just the first eight months of 2019. But police filed FIRs only in 28 cases. Pastors say police are hand-in-glove with the Hindu nationalists behind the violence
