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Himachal Haryana, racial harassment and attacks on Kashmiri shawl sellers rage on

Himachal Pradesh, presently Congress-ruled and Haryana, BJP ruled have seen recent attacks on Kashmiri shawl sellers increase

Hate Watch: Did VHP head call Indian Muslims “4th stage cancer”?

Ravindra Narayan Singh said Partition was a ‘cancer’ now in its ‘fourth stage’ adding there was ‘no such thing as Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb’

Carry swords to protect cows: Sadhvi Saraswati

The VHP leader's bizarre advice to Hindus in Karnataka follows Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's announcement that the BJP will bring laws “that are good for the people and in the larger interest of society”

Karnataka’s Right-Wing groups most active against Christians ahead of State Assembly meet 

Right wing mob sets Christian books ablaze in Kolar, in Belagavi man enters church armed with a machete; Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai hints that draft “anti-conversion bill” may be approved by cabinet

Gurugram: Why are Namaz disruptions on the rise?

It's Friday, and reports are already trickling in of Namaz disruptions; all eyes are on the Gurugram administration to take necessary action

History must be accepted as a whole; temple restoration plea in Qutub Minar complex rejected

The civil court in Delhi rejected the petition while holding that Qutub Minar was a protected monument and its character cannot be changed

Guj HC raps AMC for prohibiting sale of non-veg food on streets

About 20 Ahmedabad street vendors approached the high court as their vending stalls, apparatus, raw material was all vandalised by the municipal authority

Rohingyas sue Facebook for $150 billion over failing to police communal hate speech

A class-action complaint was filed in California and in a coordinated action, British lawyers also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook's London office

Zakia Jafri SLP: Petitioners conclude arguments

On the final day of the hearing, the petitioners brought before the court all the material that required investigation and which was ignored by the SIT in filing its closure report

With such evidence, SIT cannot be given certificate of good character: Petitioners in Zakia Jafri SLP

With only a few more submissions to make, the petitioners until now have pointed out how the SIT failed on aspects like failure to question authorities, failure to record victims’ statements and also demonstrated how the Gujarat High Court had questioned the investigating methods of the SIT which were contrary to law

There was evidence for Magistrate to issue process: Zakia Jafri SLP

The petitioners made counter-submissions to the effect that the SIT did not make any submissions in response to what the petitioners had said before the court, and invoked parts of the complaint that were not urged before the court at all

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