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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

BJP MPs/MLAs Have Most Declared Police Complaints of Hate Speech Against Them

Mumbai: As many as 58 members of parliament (MPs)...

BJP’s Desperation at Non-Performance Fuels Communal Violence in Bihar, Bengal

Secularists and liberals are, for instance, silent against the...

Cash for communalism: Cobrapost undercover investigation exposes media houses all too willing to peddle Hindutva

Cobrapost investigation exposes many Indian media houses willing to...

Delhi Police Turns on JNU: Open Lathi Charge on Student-Teacher Long March

#JNULongMarchProtest, was manhandled by both women and men constables...

Tripura Descends Into Violence with BJP’s Take Over of the State

Seventee year old, Copious Debbrama's anguished cry to the...

CJP writes to Varanasi top cop over physically intimidating behaviour of his men

CJP Secretary Teesta Setalvad and social activist Muniza Khan...

BHU students complain against the play on Nathuram Godse in campus

Students from the Banaras Hindu University speak to Sabrang...

Large Scale Protests Erupt across Gujarat after Dalit Man Immolates Self

Image Courtesy: Mid-Day The Gujarat police detained VadgamMLA,  JigneshMevani in...

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