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Muslim youth from Bihar beaten to death in Rajasthan

A young Muslim man named Afsar Ali, who worked as a tailor in Rajasthan, was beaten to death after he reportedly asked a driver who brushed past him on the road to drive carefully.

India’s Catholic clergy urges acts of conscience not political opportunism: Church leaders meet with PM Modi

A war of conscience and powerful words has broken out among the Indian Catholic clergy after Prime Minister Modi’s Christmas invite (December 25, 2023) to select church heads, who then circulated videos bowing in abject praise to the leader; a public campaign “Not in Our Name” was sought to be curtailed by some priests, leading to a powerful Open Letter from Father Anand in Varanasi

Tractor parade by SKM on Republic Day in 500 districts, farmers to take pledge to protect the principles of democracy, federalism, secularism and socialism

A mass campaign will also be organised prior to the Ayodhya structure inauguration to make people aware about the pro-corporate economic policies of the Union government, “communal narrative” of BJP

Chhattisgarh: Adivasi rights activists condemn large scale tree-felling in Hasdeo, question the state’s first Adivasi CM

Speakers also criticised both the previous Congress and BJP governments for failing to protect forests and Adivasi rights.

Growing intolerance across religion: Conservatives, Hindutva and some Islamic groups oppose New Year and Christmas celebrations

Conservative and right-wing groups rise in power across the world, a growing number of citizens are inevitably consuming and accepting the ideology they seek to preach.

Month long NGO campaign launched against frenzy of organized communalism in India

A month-long campaign of a multitude of online and offline events  called Jana Gana Mana Abhiyan has been launched in an effort to re-vitalize citizens who take pride in India’s rich, diverse, plural cultural heritage and work towards a society based on constitutional values. 

Stifling of right to protest, freedom: Open letter to CJI Chandrachud

The open letter has alleged that peaceful protests were met with fake encounters, abductions and demolition of houses belonging to the protesters by police and other government instrumentalities

Gujarat govt’s vibrant move: Graduates to get stipend more than State’s class one babus!

In order to showcase how much innovative it can be ahead of the Vibrant Gujarat world business summit (January 10-12), the Gujarat government has...

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Removed Without Process: The Doyjan Bibi case and the Gauhati High Court’s Retreat from demanding deportation records

In refusing to question the absence of any deportation or handover records after a woman vanished from a holding centre and was reportedly transferred to the BSF, the Gauhati High Court has signalled a dangerous judicial tolerance for undocumented removals carried out in the name of sovereign authority

50,000 strong Adivasi, farmers march from Charoti to Palghar, hold indefinite dharna for land rights

The CPI (M)-led massive long march from Charoti to Palghar in Maharashtra ended with a dharna at the Collector’s office, Palghar

J & K: Attempt to muzzle FoE, Media? Police summons to media, journalists

The peremptory, even extra-legal summons to four journalists from national publications has drawn outrage; the repressive action, clearly an action of intimidation, is aimed at those who have reported on a controversial move by the J & K administration and police to collect information on Mosques etc in the union territory

Publicly Tortured, Forced to Eat Cow Dung: No arrests in Odisha Pastor assault case

More than two weeks after a Hindutva mob assaulted and humiliated Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik in Dhenkanal, police inaction and a counter-FIR against the victim raise serious questions about justice and religious freedom

A Conversation About Israel That Felt Uncomfortably Familiar

A conversation with Aida Touma-Suleiman in Jerusalem reminded of all those activist comrades in our own country who, despite not being Muslim, Christian, Dalit, LGBTQ++ or Adivasi, fight for human justice and often face criticism within their own communities.
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