Communalism

Dhandhuka violence: Gujarat minority group seeks judicial action, cites targeted arson

The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC) Gujarat has written to the Director General of Police seeking judicial action in connection with recent violence in Dhandhuka town of Ahmedabad district, alleging...

In this Muslim majority Bengal village a Taliban-style fatwa prevails

Representation ImageThe village heads of a Muslim dominated village...

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Delhi Govt’s Committee of Peace and Harmony to examine Facebook India’s role in Delhi riots

The Committee of Peace and Harmony talks to two journalists monitoring Facebook’s community standards’ implementation in India, the proceedings were livestreamed

Bengaluru riots coverage: Kannada news media under the scanner

Anti hate-speech group writes to state minorities commission demanding action against errant channels, publications

Book on Delhi’s communal riots to be printed now with right-wing support

Controversial book on the riots gets new publishers, right wing IT teams attack Bloomsbury India for refusing to print one-sided story

Hate content on social media: Corporate and individual responsibility

Does the WSJ expose on FB’s alleged tacit support of the regime’s hate machinery also open doors to a deeper understanding of what led to the Bengaluru riots?

Bloomsbury India withdraws publication of one sided book on Delhi Riots, after outrage

The book claims to tell the ‘Untold Story’, just 6 months after the communal violence, even though matter is subjudice 

HJS dubs Narendra Dabholkar ‘Urban Naxal’

Is this a nefarious ploy by right-wing extremists to delegitimise the work of the slain anti-superstition activist, and other rationalists and dissenters?

Homogenisation critical to rise of majoritarian nationalism: Justice Gautam Patel

In the Asiatic Society’s 27th Smt. Bansari Sheth Memorial Lecture, the Bombay High Court judge explains modern day nationalism

To ban or not to ban: K’taka cabinet yet to decide SDPI-PFI fate

Cabinet says, they still do not have concrete evidence or a police report on the case

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Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”