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Ex-TISS student gets bail as Mumbai Court rejects Maoist link based on ‘suspicion’

Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection

The Citizenship Crisis in Assam: Questions of D-Voter, NRC and proposed amendment to Citizenship Act: VIDEOS

Shockingly, 11 family members of the late Muhammad Amiruddin, who...

BJP MLA Sangeet Som gets police clean chit in inflammatory video case

Claiming that it did not have evidence to prosecute...

Bail for All Assailant ‘Gau Rakshaks’ in Ayub Murder Case: Gujarat

All the cow vigilantes or gau rakshaks (cow protectors)...

I got letters during the Best Bakery trial urging me to act like a Hindu: Justice Thipsay to Mumbai Mirror

In this illuminating interview published by Mumbai Mirror and...

Jharkhand: After attacking Muslims inside mosque, assailants tried kidnapping policemen

“Extremist Hindus have been selectively targeting those villages where...

Hindu Yuva Vahini assaults Muslim boy in Meerut, accuses him of Love-Jihad

Meerut:It seems that radical organisation Hindu Yuva Vahini, founded...

‘Concentration camps’ opened for Gay Men in Chechnya

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Karnataka: SIR Interrogated

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The West as Enigma: Why Muslims Must Understand the Occident on Its Own Terms

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September 26 ECI Press Note: Does it not render SIR redundant?

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