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Odisha: 18 months, 54 incidents of communal hate crimes, 7 mob lynchings
Admitting to a spiral in communally driven hate crimes in eastern state of Odisha since June 2024 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a majoritarian outfit came to power, Odisha’s chief minister, Charan Majhi said on Monday, March 9 that 54 such incidents and seven mob lynchings were recorded in that state; this was in a written reply to the State Assembly
In a first, BJP leader, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi objects to the ‘Go to Pakistan’ slogan for Indian Muslims
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Terror has been repeatedly unleashed on JNU, lest we forget the disappearance of young Najeeb, and several times before
The questions of the young that clearly rattle this regime have made them repeat victims of brute violent assault: from the police and the ABVP. Hate and targeted speech has been systematically used to make them special targets; JNU and its student leadership have borne the brunt of physical blows and assaults on more than a dozen occasions in the past six and a half years
After silencing protests by violence, UP starts implementing CAA
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Enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims
Structural Violence deepens roots of Communal violence in India: the enactment of the CAA has sparked a primordial fear among Muslims, who see the government’s meddling with citizenship laws as nothing short of an existential threat.
Jamia issues press statement condemning JNU violence
Jamia, DU and JNU to go on a fact-finding mission regarding violent attacks on JNU students
Karnataka’s tryst with hate and bigotry
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