Minorities

Himanta Biswa Sarma, a BJP leader in Assam –now the finance minister of the state--who has on previous occasions,too used the CAB to reassure non-Muslim communities, is once again playing the CAB card and pushing its agenda, to keep the weather ripe for acceptance of CAB before its re-introduction in the winter session of the Parliament in November.

This is the 22nd death by mob violence in Jharkhand in the past three-and-a-half years

AIMPLB implores media organizations to not engage in rabble rousing and follow SC directives with relation to curbing the spread of communal hate

Everybody tried to halt the RSS’ communal tactics in the 1980s, but failed.

Hearing on appeals challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ayodhya case will conclude on October 17

A Guwahati High Court bench, which has been holding hearings since March 2015 under the directions of the Supreme Court, has been monitoring and continues to monitor the functioning of the existing Foreigners Tribunals in Assam. During the past 4 years many things have come to light with respect to the hurdles in the day to day functioning of these Tribunals and this raises questions on the efficiency of the Tribunals and the credibility of the orders passed by them.

In response to the Assam government’s recent decision against providing government jobs to people having more than two children, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal has said Muslims will continue to produce children and they will not listen to anyone. The maulana from Assam is merely reiterating the conviction of many among the ulema in India that Islam is opposed to family planning. However, basing herself on the Quran, Hadith and the Shariah, activist-scholar Qutub Jahan Kidwai, debunks such claim

Three months after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, the former state of Jammu & Kashmir was split into two separate union territories on October 31, 2019. While a significant number of changes are being seen in the region following this bifurcation, there is a lot of baseless information spread over the internet in a factoid-like form.

Joint Forum Against NRC asks questions from the Union and State Governments , announces a state-wide anti-NRC and anti-CAB Yatra to sensitise common man about the ground reality of the two

CJI raps the forces who oppose the NRC in...