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When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
Are encroachment removal drives in Assam selectively targeting the minority community?
Evicted people left to the mercy of elements amidst heavy rainfall, floods and Covid-19; administration reneges on relocation promise
Meerut: Hindu Jagran Manch leader booked for assault on Muslim youth
Sachin Sirohi, local Hindutva leader and another unnamed man booked for forcing a woman to assault her Muslim friend
Karnataka: Why has the Hindu Jagarana Vedike reactivated its aggression now?
Mob assaulted and manhandled a Muslim journalist, another disrupted a church service
Kerala diocese apologises after its book sparks Muslim protest
Syro-Malabar Church’s Thamarassery diocese, forced to apologise after uproar over a catechism book that allegedly had “derogatory statements against Islam”
The bogey of ‘Love Jihad’
Both, the Kerala Bishop who accused Muslims of making Catholic girls in the state victims of love and narcotic jihad, and the former Gujarat CM who wanted to take action against those who trap innocent girls, disregard the agency and wisdom of adult women
Sections of the Kerala church getting dangerously communal?
First a bishop talks of ‘narcotic jihad’, now Kuravilangad nuns walk out to mark protest anti-Muslim remarks by priest during a Holy Mass
Why are UP cops insisting Muslim victim of mob lynching was killed due to personal enmity?
Samir Chaudhary, 22, a resident of Shamli in Uttar pradesh, was beaten with sticks and rods by several men on Thursday, and died while being taken for treatment
Modi should show greater commitment to minority rights before talking about Guru Granth Sahib
Considering the track record of his government, at present his messaging sounds hollow and hypocritical
Raipur: Christian pastor thrashed in Police Station
Pastor accused of religious conversion, was assaulted by a mob while in police custody
Chargesheet calls me ‘veteran of sedition’, gives it a communal colour: Umar Khalid to court
Booked under UAPA in the Delhi Violence case, Khalid argued that the Police have no evidence against him
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