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Christian families assaulted, humiliated and forced into Durga Puja rituals in West Bengal village

Three Christian families in Paschim Medinipur allege three days of violence, threats and religious coercion by people identified as Bajrang Dal members; 13 people have been named in an FIR, but no arrests have been reported

Punjab law against blasphemy unconstitutional, open invitation to oppressive misuse: CCG

In a long and reasoned analysis of the Punjab Prevention of Offences against Holy Scriptures Bill, 2025 (PPOHS Act), recently just referred by the state legislature to a Committee, the group of former bureaucrats has pointed out how it the proposed law is inherently unconstitutional and open to misuse with its loose definitions

NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’: A brazen exercise in white-washing the ‘crimes’ of the Hindu Mahasabha & RSS

In this detailed essay, exposing the five falsehoods behind the NCERT’s recent module on Partition, the author, a historian and writer in fact exposes the axis of the far right, Hindu and Muslim, Hindu Mahasabha, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Jinnah, and the collusion with the British that got India Partitioned

Communal Conspiracy in Karnataka School: Sri Ram Sene leader orchestrates poisoning to target Muslim headmaster

Three arrested after 11 children fall ill from poisoned water; police uncover plot aimed at removing long-serving Muslim educator in Karnataka’s Hulikatti village

Communal violence erupts in Yavat, Pune over social media post; 17 arrested, multiple FIRs registered

A post alleging a temple rape in Madhya Pradesh sparked riots in Pune’s Yavat, a village already tense after a Shivaji statue desecration. As mobs torched vehicles and attacked property, police imposed curfew orders, fired tear gas, and launched a crackdown with multiple FIRs and mass detentions

Manuvadi Hindutva – Rewriting Culture, History and Right to Equality

In this perceptive article CPI(M) Polit Buro member Subhashini...

Targeted by Mob, Arrested without Cause: Two Catholic nuns jailed in Chhattisgarh despite consent documents and no evidence of conversion

Despite valid IDs and parental consent, nuns face charges under BNS and state conversion law; no action on those who harassed them

How deviant acts mar the sacred Kanwar Yatra

A tide of lawlessness, marked by widespread hooliganism, identity-based assaults on eateries, and highway obstruction, grips the Kanwar Yatra across UP and Uttarakhand, amidst alarming reports of assaults on eatery owners based on their identity, SC refused to examine controversial QR code directives issued by UP and Uttarakhand authorities, mandating hotels must display licenses and registration

A Spectacle of Injustice Undone: After 19 years, Bombay HC’s acquittal in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts case recognises the (mis) use of ‘torture...

Nearly two decades after the devastating blasts, that took place on July 7, 2006, the Bombay High Court exposes fabricated evidence, custodial torture, and investigative tunnel vision—overturning death and life sentences in a damning rebuke of India’s anti-terror justice system

Delhi Court sentences riots accused for promoting hatred against Muslims, sentences him to 3 years in custody

Lokesh Kumar Solanki convicted for inciting violence during 2020 Delhi riots; court calls his conduct “fuel to already simmering tensions” but releases him citing maximum sentence already served

“Sambhal: Anatomy of an Engineered Crisis”- How a peaceful Muslim-majority town was turned into a site of manufactured communal conflict

Released six months after the violence, this fact-finding report of the APCR exposes how state agencies, institutions, and communal actors colluded to construct a crisis in Sambhal through illegal mosque surveys, police firing, mass detentions, and myth-driven temple claims; turning religious faith into a weapon and justice into a spectacle

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