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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 HC drops NSA charges, grants bail to 4 Muslim youth

The Indore Bench passes order saying that the government had incorrectly utilised the law for baseless charges.

Modi must not be allowed to appropriate Bhai Taru Singh

The Prime Minister recently paid tribute to a Sikh martyr who had laid down his life in defence of his faith.

Delhi violence: State Home Dept scanner on video clip of woman ‘pelting stones’

SabrangIndia had flagged Ragni Tiwari’s communally inflammatory videos in February; her social media pages were full of incendiary videos and rants against Muslims

Assam to shut down gov’t run madrasas, Sanskrit tols?

Himanta Biswa Sarma says no religious education should be imparted with government funds

Stand with Stan: Christian groups demand immediate release of the activist-priest

Activists and civil society groups wonder if Stan Swamy's arrest is an attempt to silence voice of Tribal rights

Muslim journalist, 3 others arrested near Hathras, booked under sedition law 

The four were arrested on Monday when they were driving down from Delhi to Hathras

Delhi Court grants Noor Mohammed bail in riots case

Court cited lack of evidence, and that an accused cannot be jailed indefinitely on grounds of an ongoing investigation, as reasons

Delhi pogrom 2020 reminded me of Mumbai riots 1992: Justice (retd) B N Srikrishna

The  report by The Lawyers Initiative, titled Delhi Riots of 2020: Causes, Fallout and Aftermath, records events from months before the first stone was hurled in North East Delhi. 

Conversions and anti-Christian violence in India

Satyapal Singh’s statements against Graham Staines had been countered in Parliament

Was Mughal Rule the period of India’s Slavery?

Communal ideology regards Islam as alien religion and Muslims as foreigners

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