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Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

Temple vandalised in Doda leading to protests, students to study online until situation improves: J & K

Protests broke out in different parts of the erstwhile state over the destruction of the place of worhip, police lodge FIR

The long march of Hindutva in Karnataka

If Karnataka is today outdoing any state in its march towards a rigidly hegemonist rashtra, its roots can be found in historic Brahmanical counter-revolutions...

BJP dumps spokesperson Nupur Sharma, Naveen K. Jindal in damage control move

Action comes after outrage from Gulf nations, days after Sharma Jindal made derogatory remarks about the Prophet

Three FIRs registered, 500 booked as police personnel stay alert: Kanpur violence

Image: ANIAfter violence had broken out in Uttar Pradesh’s...

Why has VHP’s ‘Srirangapatna Chalo’ call been permitted?

Section 144 CrPC imposed in Srirangapatna in Karnataka fearing an outbreak of violence

How are religious sentiments hurt when blatant hate speech is exposed by a journalist?

Uttar Pradesh Police booked Mohammed Zubair for a tweet, calling Yati Narasinghanand, Bajrang Muni and Anand Swaroop 'hatemongers’

Now, ‘Swami’ Jitendranand Saraswati calls for lynching of pregnant women

Previously he has gotten away with giving a call for genocide of minorities at the Dharma Sansad in Hardiwar

Fears of communal attacks, turns Mathura’s Taj Hotel into ‘Royal Family Restaurant’ 

For the first time since 1974 the restaurant, has been renamed, its menu turned vegetarian, Muslim staff sacked, Hindu staff hired

Gyanvapi case: Survey report findings leaked despite court’s warning

Within minutes of the court sharing copies of the report with the petitioners on May 30, it was leaked to a section of the press

Now Dharam Sansad in Nashik to discuss the birthplace of Lord Hanuman!

Ascetics from across the country will come together to discuss and settle the controversy

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Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

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