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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

Why is Bihar asking for a ‘Love Jihad’ law?

The demand comes from a Hindutva outfit members to curb the alleged rise in cases of religious conversions

Gujarat: Are BJP leaders counseling women against inter faith marriages?

Several BJP leaders including the party city President recently met a 23-year-old woman, and explained the pros and cons of her marriage to a Muslim boy of the same age

Latehar lynching case: Jharkhand HC dismissed plea for convict’s suspension of sentence

Awadhesh Sao had been convicted in the lynching of a cattle trader and an 11-year-old boy

CJP moves petition against “Love Jihad” laws in SC

Human Rights group calls the Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh laws surrounding inter-faith marriages, un-constitutional and anti-women; demands they be struck down

They tortured me, gave me injections, I fear I have miscarried: Pinki, victim of anti ‘Love Jihad’ law

The 22-year-old is still suffering, even as husband, brother-in-law remain in jail; cops say will seek ‘legal opinion on case’

Delhi riots: Court grants bail to Muslim man accused of lynching fellow Muslim

The accused was also missing from CCTV footage of the attack, where there was delay in filing FIR

Devangana Kalita creating ‘narrative to show’ that Kapil Mishra was behind riots: Delhi Police

Delhi Police thinks student activist Devangana Kalita has enough social media influence and power to create a narrative to blame well known politician Kapil Mishra for North East Delhi communal riots?

Gumla lynching case accused moves Jharkhand HC for bail

One Adivasi man was killed and three injured in the April 2019 mob attack

Derogatory remarks against Islam create communal tension in Assam

AAMSU compelled to register case against RSS leader

Political ideology of BJP: Pragya Singh Thakur

It is likely that she may be pressured once again to withdraw these utterances of hers’, but it is not just incidental that what she says is the part of deeper understanding of sectarian nationalists

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