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Knives in schoolbags, hatred in classrooms: The dark lessons of Ahmedabad’s Maninagar
The recent ghastly incident in Ahmedabad's sprawling Maninagar (East) area, in which a 10th-class student of the Seventh Day Adventist School was stabbed to death by a boy from...
Badruddin Ajmal accuses BJP of targeting Muslims, mosques
Attacks on Muslims, Madrasas, Mosques have been increasing ahead of 2024 general election, says AIUDF chief
Karnataka: Ganesha Festival Celebrated at Hubballi Idgah Ground Amid Tight Security
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Anjuman-e-Islam claimed that the Idgah property was protected under the Places of Worship Act, 1991, which says no religious place of worship can be converted.
Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations at Bengaluru Idgah Maidan: Supreme Court orders ‘Status Quo’
The petition challenged Karnataka HC’s verdict permitting the use of Idgah Maidan in Bengaluru’s Chamarajpet for Ganesh Chaturthi
Krishna Janmabhoomi: Allahabad HC directs Mathura court to finish hearing Idgah survey plea within four months
Hearings were delayed as the Mathura court was first conducting day-to-day hearings to determine maintainability of suit demanding removal of mosque and return of land to the temple authorities, but the HC had stayed those hearings on August 4
Meghalaya: Catholic church vandalised, statues desecrated
Incident took place in a Catholic church in North Garo Hills; case registered, but no arrests so far
A half baked secularism: Teesta Setalvad on caste and communalism
Drawing on the subcontinent's history of faith entwined politics and the resultant consolidation of power in the hands of the few, Teesta Setalvad invokes Ambedkar, Periyar and uses her own engagement with communalism to argue that the battle for secularism in India simply cannot be won without addressing the issue of caste. First published in Communalism Combat in April 1999.
Rectify this horrendously wrong decision: Ex-bureaucrats to SC on remission to convicts in Bilkis Bano case
134 former civil servants under the aegis of Constitutional Conduct Group urge Supreme Court to revoke remission of sentence granted to convicts
VHP meet stresses blanket ban on conversion
Chief Guest Jagatguru Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati asked saints to awaken Hindu society for promotion and protection of Hindus
Bilkis Bano: Hundreds Gather at Jantar Mantar Against Remission of Sentence to 11 Convicts
Protests were held across cities by rights groups, academicians and students.
We will win the day: Teesta Setalvad on the battle for the idea of India
As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends...
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