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Dalit scientist at top science institute threatens fast unto death after harassment

sabrangindia - January 11, 2024

A Dalit scientist at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Maharashtra’s Pune has come forward talking about facing discrimination based on caste and harassment at the institute. She has also asserted that she was denied promotion due to her caste.

Caste

Within hours of police mediating her return home, young woman from Tamil Nadu ‘killed by family for marrying Dalit man’

sabrangindia - January 10, 2024

The woman victim, 19-year-old Aishwarya from Neyvaviduthi in Pattukottai, had fallen in love with Naveen, a 19-year-old Dalit man from Poovaloor village, Thanjavur. (File)

Communalism

Dual Symbolisms: Smriti Irani visits Madinah, Saudi Arabia, PM Narendra Modi runs a road show with UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in...

sabrangindia - January 10, 2024

In two well-coordinated programmes, prime minister Narendra Modi and union minister for minorities (also Women and Child Welfare) continents apart, on January 8 and January 9, led two programmes with all the optics in place, to show case their empathy with Muslims, at least, internationally

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Breaking: Religion a personal matter, BJP politicising Ram Temple: Congress declines invite to inauguration

sabrangindia - January 10, 2024

'Religion is a personal matter. But the RSS/BJP have long made a political project of the temple in Ayodhya. The inauguration of the incomplete temple by the leaders of the BJP and the RSS has been obviously brought forward for electoral gain,' read a statement from senior party leader Jairam Ramesh.

Communalism

Hate speech surges again, BJP leaders among many who stoke communal fires

sabrangindia - January 10, 2024

There has been a spate of hate speeches, each evoking reportedly shared anti-minority sentiments by stoking tropes of large Muslim neighbourhoods, cow slaughter, “love-jihad”

Communalism

Indian Christian community faces persistent attacks in first 10 days in 2024

sabrangindia - January 10, 2024

Persistent assaults on Christian institutions and gatherings spark concern as right-wing Hindutva groups allege forced conversions which has led to arrests and tensions in multiple districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Communalism

Bilkis Bano speaks: First person account, Godhra Relief Camp, March 2002

teesta setalvad - January 9, 2024

Twenty-two years ago, almost to the day, Bilkis Bano gave an oral statement recounting the horrors of what she had been through, to Communalism Combat magazine. Given the rather glaring trajectory of the case, where despite Bilkis’ Complaint, FIR with detailed facts, recounting the incident and naming accused, the Godhra police filed a ‘closure’ report (A Summary) which was even accepted by the local court, it is crucial that we re-visit, and read, in Bilkis’ words, her tale. Following the failures of the local administration, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) provided her the legal aid to ensure she finally does find justice, and peace.

Economy

Vibrant Gujarat? Official document admits failure to tackle industrial, urban pollution

rajiv shah - January 9, 2024

Even as the Gujarat government is all set to launch another edition of its high-profile Vibrant Gujarat world business meet (January 10-12), a top state document has gone out of the way to admit one of the severest issues which the state badly needs to urgently tackle: “pollution control, especially industrial and urban pollution”.

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Complaint details how “vote jihad” and “land jihad” narratives used during the Model Code of Conduct period violate electoral law, constitutional guarantees, and democratic norms

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