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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

Flip and then a Flop: 50 students of the Vaishno Devi MBBS institute will now be admitted to 7 medical colleges in Jammu, Kashmir

Hours after saying it cannot conduct fresh counselling, the Jammu and Kashmir Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) had a change of heart and called students for counselling on January 24; Following nationwide outrage on the original move to cancel admissions, these students will now be adjusted in seven government-run medical colleges across J&K based on NEET-UG merit, their preferences

Interfaith couple tied, hacked to death in Moradabad; woman’s brothers arrested in alleged honour killing

Bodies of Mohammad Arman and Kajal Saini were buried behind a temple after the brothers allegedly murdered them for their relationship; two accused taken into custody

Publicly Tortured, Forced to Eat Cow Dung: No arrests in Odisha Pastor assault case

More than two weeks after a Hindutva mob assaulted and humiliated Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik in Dhenkanal, police inaction and a counter-FIR against the victim raise serious questions about justice and religious freedom

Days After Muslim Properties Torched in Tripura, Opposition Parties Say Atmosphere of Fear Persists

While police remain uncertain whether the violence stemmed from a puja subscription dispute or a traffic altercation, political parties have come forward with their conflicting versions of events.

Busted: ‘Hindu’ Narratives of Desecration of Somnath, Buddhist & Jain Temples in India

Be it the Jagannath Mandir in Odisha, a Buddhist temple that was ‘taken over’ by Hinduism or the Jain idols destroyed during Adi Shankracharya’s countrywide yatra, these are no less historically significant than the stories around Somnath and other temples that may have been razed and raised by emperors who happen to be Muslim

Odisha: Man forced to chant religious slogan, lynched by cow vigilantes

In one more attack on ordinary working-class Muslims in a state ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a 33-year-old man was reportedly lynched –and thereafter died--after being forced to utter an aggressive religious symbol in Balasore, Odisha last Wednesday, January 7. Three suspects have been thereafter arrested states Times of India, a video of social media shows a mob assaulting the man and forcing him to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Gau Mata Ki Jai’

Bihar under BJP: Hate attacks against Muslims spiral, one dies

Whipping up hysteria using the term ‘Bangladeshi’, attacks on Muslim workers and hawkers rise sharply in Bihar with one fatal lynching in Madhubani; BJP took power in the state in a controversial election victory on November 14, 2025 and its cadres are reportedly responsible for this spread of hate crime, though JD(S) leader Nitish Kumar remains the CM

Hate Crime: Abdul Naeem’s school built with private money on his land demolished by bulldozers in Madhya Pradesh

After a medical college in Jammu was shut down because Muslim students got admission to MBBS on merit, because of hate and vilification, now, due to hate propaganda, a school in Baitul district of Madhya Pradesh has been reportedly bulldozed simply because it was built by a Muslim

Sharp spike in hate, minorities the target, hate is new normal: India Hate Lab Report 2025

1,318 verified in-person events in 2025, with BJP-ruled states accounting for 88% documents the India Hate Labs Report 2025

Unchecked Vigilantism, Repeated Harm: Why CJP has filed a fresh complaint on Malabar Hill incident

CJP’s urgent follow-up complaint warns that silence and inaction have allowed religious vigilantism to become a tool of everyday governance

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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