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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city

“I am a patriot to the core and I have always defended my country abroad:”  Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan Chairman, Delhi Minorities Commission

For over a month now, the right wing troll teams have been hard at work to vilify Muslim activists, students leaders, and intellectuals. Dr Khan is their latest target.

Two priests killed in UP’s Bulandshahr; accused arrested

Maharashtra CM Thackeray called up UP CM Adityanath to ask him to take strict action against the culprits

UP BJP MLA asks people not to buy vegetables from Muslim vendors

Islamophobia intensifies as fresh instances of hate speech keep cropping up

BJP spreading virus of communal prejudice & hatred: Sonia Gandhi

Congress president takes on PM on loopholes in Covid-19 combat plans, and ignores allegations by TV anchors

Secular Hindus, Muslims on my target: VHP District Security Chief Suraj Tiwari

The repeat hate offender communalized the Palghar lynching incident and has asked Hindu brothers to come to the streets post the lockdown to stage a protest

Right to dissent is at the core of democracy

Do not isolate and target students, unite as a nation: Civil society condemns Delhi Police for falsely implicating students and activists in Delhi riot cases

Palghar lynching case: Maha Home Minister releases list of accused, says none are Muslim

Makes names public in a bid to decommunalise the case where rumour mills painted Muslims as the villain, after two ‘saadhus’ and their driver were killed on suspicion of being thieves.

Journalists are not terrorists, journalism is not a crime

Muslim journalists, students and activists, booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), under which an individual 'labelled' a terrorist can jailed for up to seven years

It took influential Arab anger to make India notice hate speech

Threat of a diplomatic crisis draws a few words of wisdom, that were missing when anti-Muslim hate spread faster than the Coronavirus, in India.

BJP members target Tablighi Jamaat for spread of coronavirus

Indulging in hate mongering, while MLA asked members of his constituency to stay away from the Tablighi Jamaat sect and community, the other said that Jamaatis were the number one problem of the country

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