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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
Modi-Shah strike at critique, GOI to revoke Aatish Taseer’s Overseas Citizen of India card
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Bengali speaking workers face likely ban in Bengaluru apartments, what’s next?
Anticipating police action and interrogation, many housing complexes in Bengaluru have decided to not employ Bengali speaking people as labourers or domestic help, especially minorities. In this quest of weeding out illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, many citizens have also been targeted which has led to this prejudicial ban, leading them to lose their livelihoods.
Himanta Sarma in Assam claims protection of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Christians from detention centers after Citizenship Amendment Bill is passed
Himanta Biswa Sarma, a BJP leader in Assam –now the finance minister of the state--who has on previous occasions,too used the CAB to reassure non-Muslim communities, is once again playing the CAB card and pushing its agenda, to keep the weather ripe for acceptance of CAB before its re-introduction in the winter session of the Parliament in November.
Jharkhand becomes ‘lynching capital’, records one more death by mob violence
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Haryana Dalits Face Boycott Over Using Village Hand-Pump; Approach SC
Members of a Dalit community from Bhatla village in Hisar, Haryana have approached the Supreme Court to seek relief from a series of atrocities that they have been facing at the hands of a caste-dominant community, including the blocking of access to drinking water from a village hand-pump.
Tougher Than Steel: Odisha Community Rally Against Transfer of Their Land, Again
The POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) has recommenced their movement...
Bhim Army chief appeals to Mayawati to support the Bahujan movement
Chandra shekhar Aazad extends the olive branch again, he had earlier accused her of weakening the Dalit movement
Fear of “objectionable video” going viral led Dalit youth to commit suicide, says family
Disconsolate parents and siblings of an 18-year-old Dalit youth who had committed suicide in the intervening night of Diwali agreed to cremate their son’s body after three days of protest at Hisar’s civil hospital when one of the five accused named in the FIR was arrested by the police.
Ayodhya Verdict: RSS’ Moderation Smacks of Hypocrisy
Everybody tried to halt the RSS’ communal tactics in the 1980s, but failed.
SC, ST, OBC community continues to question Twitter over verification criteria
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