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Progressive Muslims reject AIMPLB’s 'Save Shariah' Campaign; Call for gender justice and real reforms

Removing Hijab ban is a step forward, for gender justice & pluralism

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka Government is planning to remove...

Madhya Pradesh: District after district polices Christmas celebrations, children can’t dress like Santa Claus without “parent permission”

Signalling a rigid control on school celebrations, Madhya Pradesh that recently elected one more time, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in the state, district collectors first in Shajapur, then Ujjain districts have issued written orders strictly policing Christmas celebrations

Karnataka: Hindutva groups call for economic boycott of Muslim vendors at Siddheshwar Temple

A pattern of boycott calls and intimidation by Hindutva groups continues across Karnataka even as a traders’ association in coastal Karnataka has urged district authorities to allow Muslim vendors to participate in temple fairs

2023: Muslims speak up on life amid targeted hatred

What is daily life like for the Muslim in India?

Students called “Pakistani” after school debate justifies Israeli violence against Palestinians

A school in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur held a debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict, after which Muslim students were designated as “Pakistani” when they expressed their discomfort

USCIRF signals alarm in India’s ‘Increased Transnational Targeting’ of religious minorities 

This bipartisan commission has also implored the US government to desginate India as a country of particular concern for religious freedom due to the "systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief".

Madhya Pradesh: One day after BJP’s victory, Muslim homes and meat shops demolished

Just a day after the chief minister Mohan Yadav took to office, reports of homes of Muslims and allegedly “illegal” meat shops being demolished have arisen from the state.

United Christian Forum: Average two Christians attacked in India every day, 287 incidents reported from UP itself

As per their statement, in 335 days of 2023, 687 incidents of violence against Christians reported, 88 more than last year; Manipur saw well-orchestrated attacks on Christians

Hindutva Rising: Muslim man lynched, day later Hindutva groups disrupt protest for Babri in West Bengal       

Commentators and historians attest that this is the worst level of Hindutva polarisation that the state of West Bengal has seen since partition.

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Former -Bengal CM calls for pan-India protests against CEC Gyanesh Kumar and has demanded his arrest and accusing him of being "compromised" and working with the BJP.

EC evades, shrugs off serious questions on fissures & divisions within the ECI

In a hastily issued press release issued by P Pawan, Deputy Director of the Commission, the election body has attempted a rebuttal of the Indian Express investigation

Gyanesh Kumar has no right to continue in office, reform the ECI: CPI-M

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded the resignation of the CEC Gyanesh Kumar and reform of the ECI

INC protests outside ECI, demands CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation

The Indian Express investigation exposing fissures within the ECI, with two Commissioners dissenting the moves by CEC Gyanesh Kumar over the past 10 months has generated a political storm: the Indian National Congress protested the anti-constitutional functioning of the ECI and demanded the CEC’s resignation

Former TN CM, M. K. Stalin demands Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation

Reacting to today’s investigation in a national newspaper revealing how the decision-making processing at the ECI had been compromised, the senior politician has elaborated how and why the CEC Gyanesh Kumar has no moral grounds to stay in office

Assam: ‘No to SIR!’ Complete the pending NRC! 

A Citizens' Convention Held in Guwahati on Sunday, September 20 had over 150 prominent names from among a significant 300-strong participation across Assam that gave a clear call for a push-back of the SIR

Three years after Darshan Solanki, Sahil Wakode’s death shows IIT Bombay still has no answer on caste, power and student deaths

The second-year student died hours after a mid-semester examination; his family alleges caste-based harassment, while the professor named in the FIR continues as faculty despite being removed as Dean