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MP: Beautiful woman ‘distracts, rape may follow’ says Cong MLA, outrage follows

Intemperate and insensitive remarks by Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya on women, rape and women from Dalit and Adivasi communities have left the Congress shame-faced on the eve of LoP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the state

Manipur gang-rape survivor dies without justice, three years after 2023 ethnic violence

Abducted, brutally assaulted and gang-raped during the Meitei–Kuki conflict, the young Kuki woman succumbed to trauma-linked illness as her case languished without arrests, exposing systemic failure in prosecuting sexual violence in Manipur

BMC: Women corporators past the 50% mark, 121 women get elected in 2026

A total of 121 women got elected the Mumbai Mahanagarpalika in 2026, crossing the 50 per cent mark: with 227 corporators in all; BJP has sent 47 women to the civic body, Shiv Sena (UBT)34, SS (Shinde) 17, Congress 13, MIM 4, MNS 4 and NCP and Samajwadi Parti one each

Busted: ‘Hindu’ Narratives of Desecration of Somnath, Buddhist & Jain Temples in India

Be it the Jagannath Mandir in Odisha, a Buddhist temple that was ‘taken over’ by Hinduism or the Jain idols destroyed during Adi Shankracharya’s countrywide yatra, these are no less historically significant than the stories around Somnath and other temples that may have been razed and raised by emperors who happen to be Muslim

Complaint exposes misuse of religious event to inflame fear and violate electoral norms in Mumbai

From the “love jihad” conspiracy to public humiliation of Muslim women, the complaint details how hate speech was used to inflame religious divisions during the BMC election period

Odisha: Man forced to chant religious slogan, lynched by cow vigilantes

In one more attack on ordinary working-class Muslims in a state ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a 33-year-old man was reportedly lynched –and thereafter died--after being forced to utter an aggressive religious symbol in Balasore, Odisha last Wednesday, January 7. Three suspects have been thereafter arrested states Times of India, a video of social media shows a mob assaulting the man and forcing him to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Gau Mata Ki Jai’

Bihar under BJP: Hate attacks against Muslims spiral, one dies

Whipping up hysteria using the term ‘Bangladeshi’, attacks on Muslim workers and hawkers rise sharply in Bihar with one fatal lynching in Madhubani; BJP took power in the state in a controversial election victory on November 14, 2025 and its cadres are reportedly responsible for this spread of hate crime, though JD(S) leader Nitish Kumar remains the CM

Hate Crime: Abdul Naeem’s school built with private money on his land demolished by bulldozers in Madhya Pradesh

After a medical college in Jammu was shut down because Muslim students got admission to MBBS on merit, because of hate and vilification, now, due to hate propaganda, a school in Baitul district of Madhya Pradesh has been reportedly bulldozed simply because it was built by a Muslim

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