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Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

As Saudi Arabia Opens Up To Christmas Festival, Islamists Cry Foul

Recently, an official of Hamas, Ahmad Kulab in an interview to a TV channel echoed the Talibanic view that saying Merry Christmas was forbidden by Sharia

Centre to fund 60% of scholarship for Scheduled Caste students

The revised scheme is to benefit four crore SC students directly as the money will now be transferred to their bank accounts

UP: 3 arrested for alleged attempt to forceful conversion to Christianity

The Police have claimed that the three men were conducting a prayer at the house of one Tribhuvan Yadav for this purpose

Delay in scholarships leave Dalit students in hot water

The underprivileged students often end up deferring their admission in universities abroad because of delay in award letter from the Government

Inter faith unions: Lawlessness widespread in Uttar Pradesh

A lawyer who helped an inter faith couple to get married, has now alleged harassment by the UP Police. The conduct of the Police starkly juxtaposes with what constitutional courts have opined.

Delhi HC asked medical panel to re-examine two victims of the NE Delhi riots

Mohammad Imran, and Shokat Ali, both seriously injured, did not get proper MLC, nor adequate compensation

AIFRTE slams Centre for suggesting scrapping reservation in IIT faculty recruitment

The move was also condemned by IIT Bombay’s Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle for its casteist ignorance

Why is Bihar asking for a ‘Love Jihad’ law?

The demand comes from a Hindutva outfit members to curb the alleged rise in cases of religious conversions

Gujarat: Are BJP leaders counseling women against inter faith marriages?

Several BJP leaders including the party city President recently met a 23-year-old woman, and explained the pros and cons of her marriage to a Muslim boy of the same age

93rd anniversary of Kakori martyrs  

Remembering their egalitarian secular ideology and joint martyrdoms can be a bulwark against the Hindutva onslaught

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Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

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When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 16-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework