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112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Muslim boy had come to do “recce”: Yati Narsinghanand 

The 10-year-old had wandered into the temple as he was new to the area, and didn't understand the "consequences" this could have had for someone from his religion 

Hate Watch: Vigilante groups misuse Navratri as an excuse to spread communal unrest

Navratri festivities are coming to a close, but for the hate mongering right-wing vigilante groups these last days are the time where their hate attacks peak

No Garba for non-Hindus: Right-wing in MP

While in Ratlam, posters have been put up denying entry to non-Hindus, in Indore Muslim boys were picked up from college-organised garba event on allegations of “love jihad”

Bikaner hostel rape case: Rajasthan court awards life sentence to main accused, convicts two others

A 17-year-old Dalit girl was found dead in a water tank at her hostel in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district in 2016

Resist before Delhi Police makes sexual assault their SoP for protesters: AISA

Students' group condemns Delhi police for allegedly sexually assaulting women who had gathered outside Home Minister Amit Shah’s house to protest the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri

Uttar Pradesh: Who are these Hindutva mobs prowling the streets, targeting minorities?

Over a dozen were targeted on Sunday, including two nuns, mobs accused them of conversion, thrashed, and marched them to police station

Dilution of environmental laws, a persistent tactic: AIUFWP

Prior to the changes in the Forest (Conservation) Act, the AIUFWP reminded that the MoEFCC had also resorted to similar changes in the draft EIA 2020 notification

Gujarat: Mob brutally attacks two teenage Madrasa students on a busy road

The teenagers were beaten up after being identified as Muslim due to their attire, they are badly injured and hospitalised

India farmers, Adivasis and forest dwellers condemn FCA draft changes

Finding the amendments that dismiss the Forest Rights Act unacceptable, Adivasis and other forest-dwellers have resolved to protest the Centre’s move on November 12

Indore: Police file FIR against Muslim family that was attacked ‘for not leaving village’ 

Madhya Pradesh, is witnessing the targeting of poor, lesser educated, Muslims, especially in the interior areas, says SC advocate Ehtesham Hashmi 

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