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Hate crimes: Report documents 602 hate crimes, 345 hate speech incidents in 1st year of Modi’s third term

A staggering 947 hate-driven incidents have dotted the first year of the third term of the Modi (NDA) regime says a report jointly documented by the APCR and Quill Foundation and released recently

Delhi HC adjourns all riot related cases till March 20

Court also issues notice in cases of hate speech allegations against Sonia Gandhi, Waris Pathan, Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra, and others.

Chennai court deems Rajnikanth speech against Periyar defamatory, at best

The Chennai district court said the speech did not amount to promoting enmity or intentional insult to disturb peace

SC directs Delhi HC to hear plea of riot-affected people for FIRs in hate speech cases on Friday

10 riot affected people had moved a petition demanding filing of FIRs against Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma

3 BJP workers arrested in Bengal for ‘goli maaro’ chants, why none arrested in Delhi, asks Mamata Banerjee

Calling the violence in the national capital a 'planned genocide', West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party

Amit Shah’s venomous vitriol and political myopia in West Bengal

“Goli maaro s**lon ko” chants reverberate as BJP heavyweight tries to wrest state out of Mamata Banerjee’s control

Post riots, groups of men chant ‘shoot the traitors’ at Rajiv chowk metro and Connaught Place

Six men have been detained from the Rajiv Chowk metro station and are currently being questioned

Delhi riots carefully orchestrated using social media?

Hundreds of anti-minority videos and posts surfaced during the Delhi violence, yet no individual was caught

Cops nab Delhi man seen mobilizing people against minorities  

Video of speech vilifying Muslims and calling for a public meeting to ‘punish protesters’ had gone viral on social media

Delhi School of Social Work Students’ Union demands alumni Kapil Mishra’s arrest

“We are ashamed of Kapil Mishra”, they say in their statement

Video to retaliate against Shaheen Bagh; asking Hindus to awaken post Delhi violence surfaces

In the video, a man can be heard saying that if Hindus don’t awaken in large numbers, we will become their (Muslims’) slaves again

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