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Centre does not maintain records of applications received under CAA, says home ministry (Scroll)

April 17, 2024

Woman, Her Twin Sons Among 6 Drown, 3 Missing As Boat Capsizes In Srinagar (Kashmir Reader)

April 17, 2024

Dalit man dies in Rajkot, family alleges torture by police (Indian Express)

April 17, 2024

VHP, Bajrang Dal activists stop Ram Navami rally outside mosque, play loud music in UP (VarthaBharati)

April 17, 2024

In Jammu, Amit Shah Blames NC, PDP for Kashmir Fake Encounters, Deaths In Custody (Kashmir Life)

April 17, 2024

Bengal On Edge Over Hindu Jagran Manch’s Plan To Hold 5,000 Rallies On Ram Navami (ETV Bharat)

April 17, 2024

Delhi HC urges to expedite investigation into Faizan’s death during 2020 riots (Muslim Mirror)

April 17, 2024

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April 16, 2024

VHP-America Has Deep Ties to Indian Arm, Sends Material Support: Report (The Wire)

April 15, 2024

Manipur’s BJP CM inflamed conflict: Assam Rifles report on India violence (Al Jazeera)

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Vishwa Hindu Parishad members disrupt an event organized by members of Christian community

April 12, 2024

Jai Shri Ram slogans shouted at Haji Malang Dargah

March 3, 2024

Bajrang Dal members took out a rally playing inflammatory songs advocating violence against Muslims

February 22, 2024

Miscreants vandalize a shop selling fish on Ram temple consecration ceremony day

February 22, 2024

Christian community protest thrashing of pastor by Bajrang Dal goons in Durg

February 13, 2024

Bajrang Dal members disrupt a gathering organized by a pastor in the park over alleged religious conversions

February 12, 2024

Police fired at alleged “cattle smuggler” in Ghaziabad

February 12, 2024

BJP leader Raghvendra Pratap Singh calls for converting 32000 mosques in Hindu temples

February 12, 2024

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Assam: BJP MLA allegedly threatens voters to vote for the party or else face wrath of bulldozer. Watch viral video (India Today NE)

2024 Election Watch

BJP persecuting Muslims, SP not doing justice either: Mayawati (Indian Express)

2024 Election Watch

Divided INDIA Bloc Could Help BJP in India’s Jammu & Kashmir (The Diplomat)

2024 Election Watch

From IT bots to AI deepfakes: The evolution of election-related misinformation in India (The Hindu)

2024 Election Watch

Lok Sabha elections 2024 | 1 in 7 candidates in second phase have serious criminal cases, 1 in 3 are crorepatis (Deccan Herald)

2024 Election Watch

‘Mutton, Mughal, Muslim’. Modi is casting the Opposition as un-Hindu & anti-Bharat (The Print)

2024 Election Watch

In Cong-BJP fight in Kanniyakumari, religion trumps other issues (News Laundry)

2024 Election Watch

“Muslims are the principal target” (Qantara)

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Muslims

Muslims

By quashing the FIR against an interfaith couple accused of “conversion”, the Allahabad High Court restores jurisprudence on a constitutional path, upholds freedom of...

April 16, 2024

Gujarat: Even 2 Months After 30 Muslim Sports Coaches Were Fired, Termination Reason Remains Unknown (The Wire)

UP: Muslim trader assaulted in train, stripped, and beard shaved (Maktoob Media)

Christians

Christians

Catholic school vandalized, priest assaulted in Telangana (Matters India)

April 17, 2024

Manipur’s BJP CM inflamed conflict: Assam Rifles report on India violence (Al Jazeera)

Manipur: Ahead of Amit Shah’s Visit, Killing of 2 Kuki Volunteers Sparks Fresh Tension (The Wire)

Dalits/Tribals

Dalits/Tribals

Dalit man dies in Rajkot, family alleges torture by police (Indian Express)

April 17, 2024

YSR Congress Party leader gets 18 months in jail for assaulting, humiliating Dalit youths 27 years ago (Indian Express)

Five Years After Saharanpur Violence, Ambedkar’s Statue Awaits Light of Day (Outlook India)

Institutionalising Hindutva

Hindutva in Legislative

Centre to separately record parents’ religion during registration of childbirth (The Hindu)

April 5, 2024

Hindutva in Executive

‘It Is Only Because Of God’s Mercy That I Could Come Out [Of Jail]. This Is Injustice & An Atrocity’ (Article 14)

April 3, 2024

Allahabad HC Expunges Bareilly Judge’s Remarks Hailing Adityanath, Blaming Muslims for Riots (The Wire)

March 20, 2024

Hindutva in media

On Facebook, dubious networks spend crores to fuel BJP bias (News Laundry)

April 15, 2024

Hindutva in Education

Students Body Protests at DU’s Kirori Mal College Against RSS Event on Campus (News 18)

April 10, 2024

Hindutva Abroad

VHP-America Has Deep Ties to Indian Arm, Sends Material Support: Report (The Wire)

April 16, 2024

Kashmir

Kashmir

Woman, Her Twin Sons Among 6 Drown, 3 Missing As Boat Capsizes In Srinagar (Kashmir Reader)

Kashmir

In Jammu, Amit Shah Blames NC, PDP for Kashmir Fake Encounters, Deaths In Custody (Kashmir Life)

Kashmir

J&K: Lal Singh’s Last-Minute Entry Into the Fray Means a Tough Battle in Udhampur (The Wire)

Kashmir

Srinagar Boat Crash That Killed At Least 4 Children Stirs Anger Over Incomplete Bridge (The Wire)

2024 Election Watch

Divided INDIA Bloc Could Help BJP in India’s Jammu & Kashmir (The Diplomat)

REPORTS

Cut from the Same Cloth: The VHP-A’s Ties to its Indian Counterpart

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A White Paper on the oppression faced by Muslims in India (Muslim Mirror)

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Over Three in Four Indians Endorse Pluralism, New Lokniti Survey Says (The Wire)

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Lynchings

Why be selective in citing mob lynching incidents, SC asks NGO...

April 16, 2024

'Let us not go by religion or caste,' a bench of Justices B R Gavai, Aravind Kumar and Sandeep Mehta said. By Ashish Tripathi New Delhi:...

Meghalaya: 52-year-old labourer lynched to death at Mawlai (Assam Tribune)

April 11, 2024

J’khand Governor sends Bill on lynching to Prez (Hindustan Times)

April 11, 2024

Man killed, murderer lynched in S’garh (Times of India)

April 8, 2024

Dalit sanitation worker dies inhaling poisonous gas in Varanasi (Siasat)

April 6, 2024

Journalists

2024 Election Watch

In Modi’s India, opponents and journalists feel the squeeze ahead of election (ABC News)

April 15, 2024

RSF Urges Indian Political Parties To Commit To Press Freedom, Suggests 10 Concrete Steps (The Wire)

Govt asks YouTube to remove journalist-turned-politician’s news channel, cites IT Rules (News Laundry)

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VHP, Bajrang Dal activists stop Ram Navami rally outside mosque, play loud music in UP (VarthaBharati)

Assam: BJP MLA allegedly threatens voters to vote for the party or else face wrath of bulldozer. Watch viral video (India Today NE)

Narendra Modi and the Question of Invoking Religion in Poll Speeches (The Wire)

Lok Sabha elections | PM Modi says ‘time is not far’ for J&K Statehood, Assembly polls (The Hindu)

CJP lodges additional police complaints against Nitesh Rane and Ashwini Upadhyay for hate speeches (CJP)

BJP MLA Yatnal calls Karnataka Minister who is married to a Muslim ‘half Pakistani’ (The News Minute)

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Civil Society

April 16, 2024

Foreign entities funding NGOs to stall public projects: I-T Dept to SC (Indian Express)

Supreme Court Grants Bail To Shoma Sen In Bhima Koregaon Case...

April 5, 2024

FCRA registration of five NGOs cancelled by MHA for ‘violation’ of...

April 3, 2024

Death By Detail: How The Govt Has Used Penalties In Law...

March 31, 2024

Gujarat: Former IPS Sanjiv Bhatt Convicted By Palanpur Sessions Court In...

March 28, 2024

Court can’t be prosecution’s stenographer: Umar Khalid’s counsel seeking bail for...

March 22, 2024

Sangh Parivar

Sangh Parivar

Bengal On Edge Over Hindu Jagran Manch’s Plan To Hold 5,000 Rallies On Ram Navami (ETV Bharat)

Hindu Jagran Manch, a Hindutva organisation which subscribes to the same ideology as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has also taken out processions in Barasat,...

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Sangh Parivar

With No History of Ram Navami Celebration, Chhattisgarh’s Bastar Turns Saffron Ahead of Polls (The Wire)

Ram Navami was never observed so boisterously in Bastar. But according to a senior tribal activist, the festival has turned into a display of...

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Sangh Parivar

VHP, RSS throw weight behind BJP with campaigns on Ram, 100% voting (The Federal)

At the first phase of polling on April 19 draws near, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has raised the slogan:"Jo Ram Ko Leke Aaye Hain,...

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