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Dhandhuka violence: Gujarat minority group seeks judicial action, cites targeted arson

The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC) Gujarat has written to the Director General of Police seeking judicial action in connection with recent violence in Dhandhuka town of Ahmedabad district, alleging...

Gurugram: University students protest African group offering namaaz on football field

Students also demand separate plates for veg and non-veg

BJP’s Giriraj Singh demands survey of mosques, madrasas in Bihar

Seemanchal region of Bihar is considered Muslim dominant area of Bihar

Break this chain of Hate: Teesta Setalvad’s 2018 speech in Allahabad

As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends...

Punjab: Christian Pastor’s car set on fire

CM promises action, but Jathedar of Akal Takht demands anti-conversion law

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

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.

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