Communalism

Economic Boycott as Hindu Solidarity: BJP leader Nitesh Rane calls for Muslims to be shut out

HARHAR campaign launch becomes a platform for religious segregation, with Rane urging Hindus to buy only from Hindus and issuing a chilling threat against Muslims attending the Kumbh Mela

Gyan Vapi case: New petition admitted, notice issued

Yet another petition filed; this one demands all 5 acres be returned to the temple, and previously demolished temple structure be restored

Allahabad Univ VC can sleep better, Mosque reduces Azaan volume

Prof. Sangita Srivastava had complained to DM that her sleep was disturbed due to loud azaan

CJP approaches NCPCR and NCM against assault on minor for entering temple

Hate offender Yati Narsinghanand admitted that he trained his disciple-accused to give a befitting reply to temple trespassers

FIR against Rajasthan Textbook Board for claiming Islamic terrorism as a strand of Islam

Objections were raised by the Rajasthan Muslim Forum, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and Muslim Parishad Sansthan

CJP’s complaint against Kamlendu Sarkar: NCM asks DGP Assam for detailed report

The RSS leader had delivered an Islamophobic speech in December, 2020  

Bhainsa communal riots triggered by Hindu Vahini: IGP Nagi Reddy

Impartial probe is being conducted, investigation is based on technical evidence, he says.

Mob attacks Christians in Chhattisgarh, 8 hospitalised

Hindutva hardliners accused the Christians of conversions, when they were praying at a house church in Dantewada district

Delhi HC grants bail to 4 accused in the 2020 violence

Justice Kait slammed the police constable for not making a DD entry or calling a PCR van during the violence 

Withdraw comments against Quran, apologise: National Commission for Minorities tells Waseem Rizvi

NCM issued notice to the former Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board chairman for his plea to Supreme Court seeking ‘removal’ of some verses from the Quran 

Uttar Pradesh: Three deaths, multiple theories, murder or accident?

Three young men were killed, in what the media says is a road accident, but locals fear may be a case of targeted communal violence Varanasi

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