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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

In Decade Since 2009: 91% Hate Crimes Under NDA

Mumbai: Nearly 91% (262 of 287) of hate crimes...

EC censures Giriraj Singh for Communal Speech

The Election Commission of India has come down hard...

EC censures Congress leader Milind Deora for Jain religion comment

The poll body said that Deora, a Congress candidate...

Contempt of Court Petition against Amit Shah for alleged comments on NRC-CAB

A contempt of court petition has been filed against...

Shah toys with Code of Conduct, SC demands Details of EC’s Clean Chits

Just a day after the ECI cleared PM Narendra Modi and...

Creating communal division is the only goal of the ruling party

The ruling Central Government of the Bhartiya Janata Party...

BJP MLA says burqa has become a symbol of terrorism, calls for it to be banned

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Sangeet Som lashed out...

EC Issues Notice to Yogi Adityanath over ‘Babur ki Aulad’ Remark

The Election Commission (EC) issued a show cause notice...

BJP MLA equates Muslims with cows that don’t produce milk

Dibrugarh MLA Prasanta Phukan said that the state’s BJP-led...

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