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...
Ground Report: Flames of Tripura Violence Scorch Amravati in Maharashtra, Curfew Imposed
By Kaushal Shroff
Amravati (Maharashtra): Pockets of Amravati, a sleepy town about 150 kilometres from Nagpur, were marked by mob violence on Saturday, November 13. A Hindu temple,...
Lust for power drives BJP’s nationalism
By Sonali Ranade
Why does RSS/BJP want a Hindu Rashtra based on Hindu nationalism, when an Indian Nation, based on Indian nationalism is already available?...
In India, five people die in police & judicial custody every day. How does...
By Umang Poddar
The death of Altaf in a police station in Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh has created a storm. While the police claim that the 22-year-old...
‘Muzlim, K2A, Jih@di, Mull@h’: How Right-Wing Trolls Bypass Hate Speech Filters on Twitter
By Saib Bilaval
New Delhi: Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami was subject to a wave of online abuse from right-wing trolls on social media following India’s T20 World Cup...
