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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

Wayanad citizens demand immediate end to draconian changes in Lakshadweep

In a letter to Prime Minister Modi, environmental group members remind him how the time-tested ways of the islanders that stand to be destroyed by new laws

Lakshadweep: Praful Khoda Patel’s proposals will destroy life of the people, warn experts

Mohini Giri, Wajahat Habibullah, Syeda Hameed, write to Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, to halt implementation of LDAR 2021

Kerala HC quashes government scheme giving 80 percent scholarship to Muslims

Says that the State is not ill intentioned but needs to treat all notified minorities equally

Varanasi: Muslim community attacked, residents decry police’s communal attitude

Konia residents complained to the DCP that local police are allegedly aggravating communal tension “at the behest of the ruling party”

CJP files complaint with Twitter over sexually abusive content against Muslim women

A sexualised campaign is being run by fake accounts, glorifying hate and violence against Muslim women

Lakshadweep: Is Praful Khoda Patel fishing in troubled waters now?

National leaders tell PM to intervene and remove him as Administrator, opinions divided within Bharatiya Janata Party's local unit too

Muslim Covid warriors save lives with oxygen ‘langars’, ambulance services

Many helping hands come together in Hyderabad with the mission to save lives and serve humanity

Barabanki mosque demolition: UP Sunni Central Waqf Board to approach High Court

Samajwadi Party, and the Congress have condemned the mosque’s demolition and have demanded a judicial probe

Haryana: Muslim man killed, kin alleges communal lynching, cops say old enmity

Asif Khan was beaten to death, family claims he was asked to chant "Jai Sri Ram"

Remembering Hasrat Mohani, who coined the clarion call ‘Inquilab Zindabad!’

70 years after his death, member of the Muslim and Urdu poetry community still keep fond memories of the great leader.

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