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‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

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

BJP leader challenges Places of Worship Act in SC

The petition states that the law takes away rights of Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, and Sikhs to reclaim their places of worship through Courts , says it legalises illegal acts of invaders

UP man arrested for assaulting Muslim boy for entering temple to drink water

The video was shared widely on social media and was brought to the cognisance on Ghaziabad police through Twitter

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Supreme Court seeks senior Delhi Police officer’s presence over alleged assault on women journalists; NWMI seeks binding safeguards

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Bombay High Court orders Maharashtra DGP to review arrest forms, flags failure to communicate grounds of arrest

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SIR West Bengal: Most Form 7 requests lead to deletions; Form 6 additions remain low

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‘Chalo Delhi’: Thousands march to Supreme court against ‘Vote Chori’, demand Gyanesh Kumar’s removal

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