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USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
Devotees of Sarkara Devi temple want ‘RSS men’ to leave temple alone, they’re ‘causing agony, fighting with sticks’: Kerala
A writ petition in Kerala High Court alleges men claiming to be RSS members have been illegally encroaching on premises of Sarkara Devi temple in Kerala's Chirayinkeezhu, leading to 'loss of calm atmosphere'.
Another cow lynching in Nashik, one dead
The police have arrested 10 persons in this matter and the meat found in the car has been sent for forensics testing. They were beaten on suspicion of carrying beef.
11 arrests in Nashik for killing man, brutally assaulting another for ‘transporting beef’
Police officers said members of a cow vigilante group assaulted the two men with iron rods and wooden sticks near Igatpuri.
How RSS betrayed the struggle against the Emergency, from its archives
Today, June 25, the 48th anniversary of the Emergency, the author looks deep into the authoritarian veins of the organization and exposes how, despite this, some cadres benefit from a significant state monthly pension for being in jail less than two months
What’s wrong, asks district collector spotted making the RSS salute: Madhya Pradesh
The opposition Congress and ruling BJP have been embroiled in a war of words ever since a picture surfaced showing two officials participating in a prayer during an RSS event on June 11
Plea in Kerala HC alleging illegal encroachment in temple by RSS
Mass drills and weaponry training conducted by Hindu outfits a grave concern
Hindu Janagaruti Samiti (HJS) & Karnataka links
A look at how and what the HJS (Hindu Janajagruti Samiti) activities in Karnataka have been in recent months
Its live-in and gay ties whip up cyclones like Biparjoy: HJS, Goa
From calling for an economic boycott of all Muslims, to demanding a film on Portuguese “atrocities” the HJS now, says that natural calamities like cyclone Biparjoy are caused by the “immorality” of live-in and gay couples
A ‘Garbh Sanskar’ event by the RSS “teaches” pregnant women birth ‘Sanskari’, ‘Deshbhakt’ Babies
Though occupying a constitutional post, even the Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan remained present at the event and said that pregnant women should chant 'Sunderkand', and read the 'Bhagavad Gita', 'Ramayana', and 'Mahabharata' to have mentally and physically sound babies.
13 of Rajasthan’s 33 districts host Trishul Diksha Samarohs, spawn hate against Christians, & Muslims
CJP Team -
In just five months since December 3, 2022, Rajasthan, a state going to polls end 2023, has been dotted with these military like events with the capital Jaipur hosting six; hate speeches galore at each event
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