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Between Celebration and Suspicion: How Bakri Eid passed across india in 2026
With police deployments, cattle regulations, housing society disputes and political mobilisation surrounding Eid-ul-Adha, the festival reflected the tensions of contemporary India
Madhya Pradesh: Disabled senior citizen ‘suspected of being Muslim’ thrashed, found dead
Bhanwarlal Jain was attacked in Neemuch, allegedly by BJP affiliated Dinesh Kushwaha
Delhi professor arrested for post about “Shivling”
Students and professors staged a protest outside police station at midnight demanding the release of Hindu College professor Rattan Lal
Gyanvapi case: SC transfers the case from Trial Court to District Court
Earlier SC order protecting the right to worship in mosque to stay in effect; District court to make arrangements for Wuzu
Open letter to Sharda University Vice Chancellor
Discarding a question on linkages of Hindutva with Nazism/Fascism is blatant Academic Dishonesty!
When and How Ram Vilas Paswan made a strong pitch for the Places of Worship Act, 1991
A powerful leader from Bihar, unkindly known as the shrewd weatherman of Indian politics, Ram Vilas Paswan, then a member of the National Front, spoke powerfully from the Opposition benches, in support of the proposed law and scathingly of the BJP’s destructive politics of demolishing places of worship (Babri masjid, December 6, 1991) while not sparing the Congress either
Krishna Janmabhoomi: Mathura court restores suit demanding removal of Shahi Idgah
Plaintiffs had sought that the entire land be returned by mosque authorities to the temple trust; a lower court had dismissed the plea
Halt Gyan Vapi proceedings today: SC to Varanasi Court
The Supreme Court orders lower court to desist from passing further orders as it adjourns the hearing to tomorrow
Education in India being ‘edited’ to suit a right-wing syllabus… one chapter at a time
Communalising classrooms is no longer a mere threat; the process began a while ago, and once printed in textbooks, threatens to stay
Gyanvapi case: Video survey report to be submitted before Varanasi court today
Mosque’s Wazu Khana had been sealed after a “Shivling” was discovered there; matter against Allahabad HC order permitting the survey in the first place, also comes up for hearing in SC
Krishna Janmabhoomi: Mathura court to decide if suit against Shahi Idgah is maintainable
The petitioners have demanded that the mosque authorities return land to the temple trust
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