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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

Hindu society at war, natural to be aggressive says RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Organiser

Bhagwat’s sudden verbosity on Muslims, LGBTQIA community and Hindu aggression is curious

Following Pragya Thakur’s example, Sadhvi Aastha Maa justifies keeping weapons/knife at home

Shah Rukh Khan is the target of yet another Hindutva scam that incites hatred before the release of Pathaan

Censorship: Jyotishpeet Shankaracharya sets up ‘ Dharm Censor Board ‘ to review films, web series on OTT

In the midst of a controversy is going on over a song in the film, Pathan song which features Deepika Padukone in saffron attire, a religious censor board takes birth

Places of Worship Act: Again, Centre seeks more time, SC says Feb-end

The 1991 Places of Worship Act, enacted when the Babri Masjid still stood, mandates that the nature of all places of worship, barring the one at Ayodhya, be maintained as they stood on August 15, 1947

At a VHP event in MP, speaker terms religious minorities as “Be-Dharami”, urge’s violence

Speaker spreads misinformation and hatred about conversions, says Christians are pitting Hindus against Hindus, castes against castes

Karnataka: Woman beaten, dragged out of temple, shows CCTV

While some publications have claimed she was a Dalit, the Police have denied the same

Review of 2022: A year of discrimination & violence experienced by India’s religious minorities

Religious minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, have experienced persistent stigmatisation and attack, with governments and law enforcement complicit in a culture of impunity

“Pour petrol on his house, not water”: Pakistani mullah incites death on Ahmadi Muslims

In another major escalation of anti-Ahmadiyya sentiment in Pakistan, a radical religious cleric "Syed Mohammad Sibtian Shah Naqvi of Sarghoda", with a significant social media following, has called for a total boycott of Ahmadi Muslims.

Graves desecrated in Mumbai’s Mahim church, FIR filed

Over a dozen graves desecrated in Mahim’s St. Michael’s church even as BMC withdraws notices to vacate the 115 year-old Bandra cemetry

CJP moves NCM, writes to DGP Maharashtra against notorious hate offender Kalicharan

In his inflammatory speech, Kalicharan had asserted that "Love-Jihad" may be cured by ingesting water that has had a wild boar tooth left in it overnight.

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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