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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
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s UCC talk, a sign of pre-poll jitters?
Two days before polls, CM says if re-elected the BJP government will form a panel to prepare Uniform Civil Code draft
Stop infecting college campuses with the communal poison: Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD)
More than 150 secular human rights activists strongly condemn the...
Are Christians being targetted in Uttar Pradesh with the blessings of the regime?
ADF records 102 instances in 2021; the report reveals shocking details of incidents where even the police allegedly played a role, often taking action against the victims!
UP can become Kashmir, Kerala, Bengal if you do not vote for BJP: CM Adityanath
The incumbent Chief Minister's controversial statement, singling out states withing the Indian union, virtually painting them as undesirable, came on the eve of Assembly elections
UP professor throws Muslim girl out of class for wearing hijab!
Actions against hijab-wearers went unchecked in Karnataka, matter now escalates and spreads to other states
Did Karnataka’s Education Minister defend a mob that targeted a Muslim woman?
BC Nagesh claims saffron scarf-wearing mob of "students didn't want to gherao” the Muslim girl, says no student was around her when she shouted "Allah hu Akbar"
Busted! Times Now anchor fails to make important distinction between ban on Islamic traditional veils
Tries to school Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai for her Tweet about the Hijab controversy in Karnataka; gets fact checked and schooled himself!
Hijab controversy: All schools and colleges to remain be shut for the next three days in Karnataka
The Karnataka High Court will continue to hear the hijab case on Wednesday February 9; videos of right-wing groups creating unrest flood the internet
HC paves way for Assam government’s move to ‘secularise’ provincialised Madrasas
Gauhati HC upholds Assam Repealing Act 2020 that was used by the state government to convert gov’t funded madrasas into regular government schools
No Hijab in class: Will Puducherry be able to nip the controversy in the bud?
Meanwhile, Karnataka High Court will hear a plea against the hijab ban in several junior colleges today
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