Two Journalists in India Arrested as Media Crackdown Continues
By Emily Schmall and Hari Kumar
NEW DELHI — Two journalists in India were arrested after they went to cover religiously motivated violence in a northeastern state, the latest in...
India’s Assam Eviction Drive Heightens Insecurities of State’s Muslim Population
By Anjana Pasricha
MUMBAI — An eviction drive in India’s northeastern state of Assam of residents living on government-owned land has heightened insecurities among the state’s...
Opinion: Rahul Gandhi’s Anti-Hindutva Remark Is A Good Move
By Ashutosh
Many political pundits believe that Rahul Gandhi is caught between the devil and the deep sea on the question of Hindutva. If he...
‘This Is Nothing but Revenge’: Family of Arrested J&K Tribal Activist
By ISHFAQ RESHI
The family members of a tribal activist, who was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police for allegedly instigating people, have rejected the...
Being excluded from NRC affects every stage of life: Assam scholar Abdul Kalam Azad
By MEDHA GHOSH
Abdul Kalam Azad is a human rights researcher, community worker, and writer based in Assam. He is working on his Ph.D. thesis...
Comedian Munawar Faruqui’s show in Goa cancelled after threats from Hindutva group
A show by comedian Munawar Faruqui, which was scheduled to take place in Goa’s capital of Panaji on Monday, has been cancelled after threats...
JNU Students’ Union, other orgs call out ABVP who instigate violence on campus
Members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated ABVP disrupted a programme commemorating India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary and attacked students...
Salman Khurshid’s home set on fire days after release of his book on Hindutva
The residence of senior Congress leader and former Union minister Salman Khurshid in Nainital was vandalised and set on fire by a group of...
‘Stop enabling genocide of Indian Muslims’: Protests in US against Facebook
Hundreds of people of different faiths, professions, and backgrounds gathered in eight major cities of the United States, Saturday and Sunday to protest Facebook allowing hate...
Maharashtra: Shops belonging to Muslims burnt during bandh called by BJP in Amravati, say...
Two shops belonging to Muslims were burnt during a shutdown observed by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra’s Amravati city on Saturday, The Indian Express reported.
The BJP observed...
Delhi riots: ‘Police did its job with utmost integrity, not on communal lines’, court...
By Anand Mohan J
Observing that the police did its job with utmost integrity, a Delhi court has pulled up a lawyer, who had argued...
Journalist arrested for covering Tripura violence
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Journalist Samriddh & her colleague held illegally by the police in Indian state of Assam & Tripura for objectively reporting on the recent anti-Muslim...
22-year-old Dalit youth battered to death with sticks in UP
Lucknow: A 22-year-old Dalit youth was allegedly lynched in the Alinagar area of Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The incident came to...
