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SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study

The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods

MP: Communal flare up after 10-year-old Muslim boy allegedly turns up at garbha venue

A Hindu teenager objected to the Muslim boy’s presence, and the arguments eventually turned into communal clash; 20 Muslims and 6 Hindus have been named in FIRs

K’taka: Right-wing goons forcibly shut down meat shops; vandalise Muslim couple’s chicken shop

The incident took place near Belagavi and the police refused to lodge FIR in the matter forcing the complainant to reach a compromise with the attackers, who continue to harass them even now

Bangladesh: Mass strike called on October 23 to protest attacks on minorities

Bangladeshis stand in solidarity with their Hindu compatriots, even as violence against the minority community continues in places

Hate Watch: Right-Wing group sing bhajans in Karnataka church as “protest” 

Archbishop of Bengaluru had warned against such vigilante after Karnataka’s Backward & Minority Welfare Department proposed a survey of “Christian missionaries and places of worship”

Survey of Karnataka’s Christian missionaries and places of worship, a dangerous exercise: Archbishop

When conversion bogey, anti-religious feelings are being whipped up, it is dangerous to make such surveys, says Archbishop of Bengaluru Archdiocese Peter Machado

CJP moves NCM over hate crimes against Muslims in Madhya Pradesh

Since August, right-wing groups have reportedly threatened and assaulted Muslims in the State

CJP approaches minorities commission over attacks on Christian nuns, prayer congregation in UP

Right-wing goons have allegedly targeted the minority community, falsely accusing them of conducting religious conversion

Muslim boy had come to do “recce”: Yati Narsinghanand 

The 10-year-old had wandered into the temple as he was new to the area, and didn't understand the "consequences" this could have had for someone from his religion 

J&K government directs Migrant staff not to leave Kashmir

The order states that any absence from duty will be dealt with as per service rules

Uttar Pradesh: Who are these Hindutva mobs prowling the streets, targeting minorities?

Over a dozen were targeted on Sunday, including two nuns, mobs accused them of conversion, thrashed, and marched them to police station

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SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study

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