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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
Peace and harmony: Indian Army officers offer Namaz in Kashmir
A now viral photo showing namaz being offered by...
Your silence, in the face of this enormous societal threat, is deafening: CCG to PM
Constitutional Conduct Group pens open letter to the Prime Minister, asking him to call for an end to the politics of hate
Delhi: ‘Rohingya Bangladeshi’ taunts putting other Muslim dominated areas on the buldozer map?
AAP and BJP accuse each other of settling "Rohingya and Bangladeshis" across the city that will soon have its Municipal elections
Khargone police files FIR against hate-mongers
According to a senior police official, the miscreants suspected to in Katarwar area will soon be identified and caught
Ranchi activists demand citizen action against hate crimes
In answer to the JJM’s call for a peace protest, citizens and rights group members gathered in Ranchi to condemn the Ram Navami violence
Were only 1,064 Tribal families displaced in Odisha for mining in the last 10 years?
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs answer in the Parliament’s Budget Session offers unlikely statistics that do not reveal the actual state of tribals in Odisha
Can the government explain craters and remnants of explosives in Sukma and Bijapur forests?
Rights groups call upon all citizens groups including women, farmers, Dalits, tribals to question the discovery of the what could be the shells and remnants of explosives in Bastar
Karnataka: Hindu Janajagruti focuses on ‘Bible in classrooms’, after hijab controversy
Bengaluru’s Clarence High School reportedly took an undertaking from parents that they would not object to students carrying Bibles to school
A fair media can defang intolerance
There is a strong voice of moderates from within Muslim ranks that can be properly channelised by the media to give a rounded assessment of Islamic issues
Lovely Professional University professor allegedly sacked over opinion on Hindu deity
Professor Gursang Preet Kaur was accused of using derogatory words against Lord Ram; right-wing demanded sacking, LPU obliged
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