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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

Furfura Sharif cleric Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui adds fuel to communal fire

Siddiqui’s hate speech against those who allegedly placed a Quran at a Durga Puja pandal in Bangladesh is a call to violence

Chhattisgarh: A dead woman’s ‘ghar wapsi’ before final rites were allowed

Family of a deceased tribal Christian woman was made to “re convert’ her before village allowed her last rites

UP: Two injured during Buddhist-Sanatan clashes

The pilgrimage area is a long-disputed land between the two religious groups

Will Karnataka soon enact a tough “anti-conversion law”?

Karnataka’s legislative committee on backward classes and minority welfare is likely to soon launch its “survey of churches”

Hate Watch: Muslim man assaulted in crowded train, no one intervenes

The woman assaulting him is a Hindutva outfit leader, and also claims to be a BJP worker

MP: Communal flare up after 10-year-old Muslim boy allegedly turns up at garbha venue

A Hindu teenager objected to the Muslim boy’s presence, and the arguments eventually turned into communal clash; 20 Muslims and 6 Hindus have been named in FIRs

Jashn-e-trolling: What does the festive season mean for bhakts?

Trolls led by Tejaswi Surya, ensured that garment giant Fabindia removed its seasonal advertisement

K’taka: Right-wing goons forcibly shut down meat shops; vandalise Muslim couple’s chicken shop

The incident took place near Belagavi and the police refused to lodge FIR in the matter forcing the complainant to reach a compromise with the attackers, who continue to harass them even now

Hate Watch: Right-Wing group sing bhajans in Karnataka church as “protest” 

Archbishop of Bengaluru had warned against such vigilante after Karnataka’s Backward & Minority Welfare Department proposed a survey of “Christian missionaries and places of worship”

‘Zero tolerance for communal violence’: Dhaka Tribune editorial

'Our society as a whole continues to harbour hostilities between different communities'

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