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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
“Next step is Rohingyas’ deportation”: BJP MoS Jitendra Singh
He also said that the CAA has been implemented in J&K while the date of implementation is yet to be released
Minorities in neighbouring countries -FAQs
Image Courtesy: economictimes.indiatimes.comAFGHANISTANWho are the minorities in Afghanistan?Afghanistan has...
Muzaffarnagar Ek Baar Phir – Muzaffarnagar Once Again
Traveling along the Muzaffarnagar countryside roads in 2013 with...
Kristallnacht for India’s Muslims?
Recently activist Kavita Krishnan visited Muzaffarnagar along with Harsh Mander, John Dayal and many other civil society members to take stock of ground realities. Here is her own account of what they discovered, compiled from tweets.
Why is Police demanding people’s documents in Benaras
This is the first question that comes to mind when you watch the video news report posted by UP Tak, a digital news channel in which the police can be seen looking at people’s ID documents, especially those hailing from West Bengal.
Muslim festivals left out of NPR instruction manual
MHA offers weak justification saying that Islamic festival dates are dynamic not realizing that even some Hindu festival dates keep changing
Fanning the communal flames
Image Courtesy: thehindu.comIn 2019, there were several instances when...
NHRC receives complaint on police excess in Daryaganj
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The Commission has registered the complaint that retells the horrors of the night when 18 minors were detained
NHRC pulls up UP police for complaints on rights violations, deaths by police firing
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After receiving multiple complaints about violence against anti-CAA protesters, NHRC seeks a report from UP police
Fact-finding report reveals police brutality at Aurangabad and Phulwari Sharif
At the anti-CAA protest in Bihar on Dec 20, the police unleashed violence with impunity, ransacking homes and assaulting men, women and even children
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