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Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

Deliberate attempt to communalise Assam assembly elections?

Doctored video of AIUDF Chief Badruddin Ajmal shows him making communal statements, goes viral in poll-bound state

Muzaffarnagar riots: Case closed against BJP MLA accused of circulating inflammatory video

The closure report was filed by SIT and the complainant, a cop, was killed in a mob attack in 2018  

MP Assembly passes ‘anti-love Jihad’ law by voice vote

Reportedly, the law was passed amidst continued opposition from the Congress

Haryana: RTI reply reveals four ‘love jihad’ cases, no conviction over three years  

Out of the four cases, two were cancelled by the Police, a third was acquitted by a court and the fourth case is pending

Every citizen of India is Hindu, or so claims UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath makes claims all Indians are “Hindu” while accusing the Congress party of indulging in divisive politics in Kerala.

Revisiting Northeast Delhi a year after the February 2020 pogrom

Senior activists, lawyers and experts working on-ground with Delhi pogrom survivors discuss with SabrangIndia the progress, or the lack of it, in the case of communal attacks in Northeast Delhi

UP Assembly passes anti-religious conversion Bill amid opposition

This 2021 Bill seeks to replace the Ordinance promulgated in November last year that makes conversion a non bailable and cognisable offence

Delhi HC seeks response in plea seeking quashing of DMC’s report on Delhi riots

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta representing the Centre said that these reports need to be examined

Battleground Bengal: Communal hues grow darker

From rath yatras, to pitting deities, there’s nothing the BJP won’t do to consolidate its vote bank of supremacists

Truth has been hijacked to serve political interests: Brinda Karat on Delhi violence 

On Tuesday, the Left organisation remembered the atrocities suffered by residents of Northeast Delhi and condemned the central government for stifling dissent.

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Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions