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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

Caution to the wind: Maha Police intimated to be vigilant of HJS Gudi Padwa events

CJP wrote the Sangli and Pune Police authorities to be wary of the ‘Gudi pujan’’ events organised by HJS in multiple locations, as HJS has a controversial history disturbing communal peace

Now Kadi, north Gujarat sees hate speech by Vishwa Hindu Parishad, this time against Christians

A video that has gone viral on social media since Sunday night makes abusive statements against Christian nuns and the Pope, Christians have filed a complaint

What is the real intent of the extremists launching this aggressive “love jihad” campaign

While the overt fault lines are communal, with the Hindu-Muslim binary feeding base level social and political prejudices, increasingly evident is the real intent/motive behind this assault; it is Autonomy and freedom of choice, for women

Aurangabad badgered with hate speeches, vandalism and destroying of public property followed in protest supporting name change of Aurangabad

Free hand given to hate mongers, as 7 FIRs filed for rioting and damage to public property, but no arrest of T. Raja, Suresh Chavhanke

Police disrupt anti hate-speech campaign in Mira-Bhayandar 

 ‘Don’t name the MLA, say the police, confiscate postcards and strike out the legislator’s name from banners at the venue

Marginalising the already marginalised: Economic Boycott Targeting Muslims

Looking into the prevailing economic status of the Muslim minority in India shows that these calls for their economic boycott will further push them over a dangerous precipice of marginalisation.

Even after 3 months, zero cases filed before the Maha Inter-faith Marriage-Family Coordination Committee: Maharashtra Women and Development Ministry

SP president files privilege motion against BJP leader Lodha for making false claims of having received 152 cases in the state assembly, Bombay HC allows PIL by Rais Shaikh against the Maha GR

Himanta Biswa Sarma targets poll bound Karnataka, spreads communally divisive ideology, distorts history, attacks Congress

The new poster-boy of Hindutva’s hate mongering, the Assam CM also says that he envisions the new India to have more Ram Janmabhoomis, more temples, and to be madrassas free

Rising Intolerance in Maharashtra: 2 Muslim boys arrested for putting a status on Aurangzeb

Both Muslim boys, arrested by the Kohlapur police, have been charged for disturbing “religious harmony”

Rising Instances of Hate-speech, Hate Crimes in Rajasthan condemned: PWA, Delhi

In a strongly worded resolution passed at the two day conference at Macchadi, Alwar the Delhi Unit of the Progressive Writers Association has urged the Rajasthan govt to prosecute and prevent trishul distribution rallies and calls for violence against minorities that are likely to increase as state assembly elections draw near

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After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal

With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance

From treating Adivasi communities to being branded an instigator: Odisha jails doctor Randall Sequeira

Arrested in a case in which his name did not figure in the original FIR, Dr Randall Sequeira faces serious criminal charges amid an intensifying crackdown on Adivasi communities resisting bauxite mining in Odisha

Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival

The university has agreed to implement the students’ union constitution by May 15, 2027, and conduct elections under Lyngdoh Committee guidelines

Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance

Communities resisting the proposed 11,200 MW project fear the loss of ancestral land, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activists detained under the APUAPA

Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.

In Karnataka, during the pandemic and lockdown, mid-day meals in government schools and anganwadis under the National Food Security Act (2013) [1], shut down indefinitely [2,3] amidst growing concerns about how this would affect vulnerable communities. In spite of demands, the state government has not yet undertaken a detailed post pandemic and lockdown survey to identify the immediate and long-term interventions to address and prevent malnutrition. Several visits have been made by civil society organisations, students, nutritionists and academics to different districts of Karnataka, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic and this commentary gives a broad overview of the observations made. There is a need for an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study.

Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses

A four-day door-to-door audit in Trilokpuri found voters marked absent, shifted or dead who were still living at their registered addresses, with 47.57 lakh names missing from Delhi’s draft roll, affected voters have until October 30 to file claims

SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?

Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?

2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death

The Court holds that failure to identify who inflicted the fatal injuries does not absolve the accused under Section 149 IPC, relying on evidence of their participation in an armed mob that assaulted the victim, Monish