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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

Restore statehood on August 5: JKAP chief Altaf Bukhari

Says J&K suffered from “crackdown” earlier, now it's “lockdown”, and there is no difference for the common man

UP Congress minority cell launches campaign for Dr. Kafeel Khan’s release

The door-to-door campaign will run till August 12 and see massive mobilisation of the minority community

San Francisco passes resolution opposing discriminatory CAA, NRC and NPR

The resolution was passed unanimously and stated that the CAA, NRC and NPR would create a massive refugee and health crisis

What’s going to happen to CAA now?

Deadline to fix rules for implementation of the act lapses at it has been over 6-months since the passage of the act and issue of notification

Zakir Naik Showcases the Rot within Islamic Theology

Image Courtesy:economictimes.indiatimes.comFor the Rwala Bedouins of Northern Arabia, heaven...

Why social media giants must identify and remove Zakir Naik’s hate speech

Zakir Naik has constantly been propagating hate speech through his videos and influencing innocent youth in the Indian subcontinent

North-East Delhi Riots: Minorities Commission investigations reveal role of Delhi Police, politicians

DMC’s fact finding committee recommends that government set up a high-powered probe headed by a High Court judge

Hate Speech by BJP’s Top Brass fuelled Build Up to Delhi Violence: Minorities Commission

As in all bouts of mass targeted violence all over the country for decades, Delhi 2020 was no different. A systemic build up of bloody eyed cadres on the streets was readied through the provocative speeches of top leaders of the ruling BJP including union minister of state, Anurag Thakur and BJP MP, ParveshVerma who were both actually banned from electioneering on January 29, 2020 by the Election Commission

Will Delhi Police now handle cases of Hindus arrested for communal riots differently?

Orders “due care and precaution” while arresting, senior officers asked “suitably” guide Investigating Officers (IOs)

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Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

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

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

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

Unlike the North Indian Kumbh, the Bharatapuzha by contrast has never functioned as a Pan-Hindu pilgrimage centre. It has no historical association with mass ritual bathing, no priestly networks that regulate sacred time, and no inherited mythological mandate that binds the river to cyclical purification rites. The introduction of the Maha Magha Mahotsavam is a clear cultural imposition by Hindutva

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

Two complaints, one by former JNUSU president, Dhananjay and the second BY Suraj Kumar Baudh, an activist, take on Santishree D. Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of JNU for her recent casteist and racist comments

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