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CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

Don’t stop at Muslim-owned dhabas, VHP, Bajrang Dal warn buses in Gujarat

Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal warn bus operators on the Saurashtra-Surat highway of dire consequences if they stop at Muslim-owned eateries

Karnataka govt’s ominous silence at the communal mobilisation of students

Saffron scarfs have been supplied to groups of students who are marching, in protest of the hijab worn by their Muslim peers

HateBuster: Pro-Pakistan slogans raised in Samajwadi Party rally, claim rightwingers

Original video of rally was examined, mention of Pakistan says Dist Election Officer, busting claim, fake news

To wear or not to wear the Hijab is not the point!

The hijab controversy plot thickens as supporters of Muslim students become targets of online bullying

Gujarat’s people do not want communal tensions: Concerned citizens write to Governor

Communal elements, seek electoral benefits or fame and flare up tensions in the state, they write asking police to tackle all such attempts 

Direct police to apprehend criminals propagating anti-Muslim hate messages: Gujarat citizens to CM

The hate has folllowed Kishan Bharwad’s murder allegedly by two bike-borne men in Dhandhuka on January 25

Dharm Sansad: Has the woman Hindutva ‘leader’ calling for rape of Muslim women been arrested yet?

New video from hate speech at Chhattisgarh Dharma Sansad goes viral; Kalicharan was the only accused arrested after the event, still no action against the woman leader

Two more hijab controversies in Karnataka

Within a span of nearly two months, the state has reported five instances of banning hijab on-campus

Courts seek Action Taken Reports from Police in cases against hate monger Suresh Chavhanke

Chavhanke, a known hate offender, is in the spotlight now as courts seek to know if cognisable offences are made out against him in two cases

Pirana: Attempts to erase the history of the 600-year-old dargah?

Minorities feel uneasy in wake of wall construction that obstructs smooth passage between the dargah and a mosque and graveyard; allege attempts being made to redesignate the dargah at a temple

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