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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

Hate Speech by Zakir Naik: Painful punishment awaits those who abuse the Prophet

Controversial preacher issues a not-so-veiled threat of violent reprisals; endangers French Muslims further who are already facing suspicion and hate in wake of beheadings in Paris and Nice

Haryana-Uttar Pradesh politicians unite against interfaith couples

Cornered on rising crimes against women, Haryana government  says law against ‘Love Jihad’ in the pipeline; follows similar declarations by Uttar Pradesh CM

Vigil in memory of the victims of Sikh Genocide held in Surrey

The members of South Asian community came together to...

Statements by Muslim religio-political leaders condemned

Over 100 Indians condemn Paris beheadings, deplore outrageous statements by Muslim religious and political leaders

Haryana: Nitika Tomar’s murder being used to fuel ‘love jihad’, hate politics?

Family alleges that police ignored their 2018 complaint of harassment; police maintain the family did not want to take action

Bilkis Bano case: Is the Government trying to hoodwink the SC on compensation?

The 2002 riot-survivor alleges that despite repeated directions of the SC she has not been given her proper dues

No proof for UAPA charges, accused deserves bail: Delhi HC

The court observed that the investigating agency’s report does not disclose the commission of UAPA offences except some bald statements of the witnesses to keep Faizan in jail.

Hathras case: AMU to extend the tenure of 2 JNMCH doctors who spoke to the media

Doctors Azimuddin and Obaid’s termination has been revoked and their tenure would be extended on the request of Dr. Zaidi, the Chief Medical Officer of JNMCH

Against the country’s secular structure: Court denies bail to man accused of damaging Masjid

Considering the gravity of allegations, large-scale involvement of the applicant in the North East Delhi riots, court do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail

No ‘Muslim regiment’ in the first place: Former civil servants seek investigation into fake news

Group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services, pen an open letter, backing army vertans' call for investigations into hate campaign against Muslim soldiers

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Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

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A Republic Must Tolerate Art — But Not Denigration: Supreme Court reasserts fraternity as a constitutional boundary

While closing the challenge to a withdrawn film title, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that vilifying any community is constitutionally impermissible — even as it robustly defended artistic freedom under Article 19(1)(a), striking a careful balance between dignity and dissent in a 75-year-old Republic

Hegemony: Kerala’s Bharatapuzha as a political stage

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JNU: Former JNUSU President complains against Vice Chancellor’s casteist & racist remarks

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From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation