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Understanding the Supreme Court’s Interim Intervention in the Waqf Amendments, 2025
Be it on the issue of the disproportionately stringent control over the Islamic institution of Waqf (as compared to the administration of Hindu muths or temples), the Supreme Court’s part interim reliefs to the controversial 2025 Waqf Amendment Act, risk a judicial stamp on the state’s sledgehammer approach; a detailed analysis of the SC’s interim order dated September 15, 2025
Ghastly murder of a minor girl on street fuels communal fire: Delhi
Violence of another kind grips Delhi: the victim, a 16-year-old girl, was stabbed more than 20 times, head bludgeoned with a stone as bystanders stand & watch
Idrees Pasha Lynching in Sathanuru, Karnataka: Lapses in prevention of crime, nabbing accused, weak investigation
The brutal killing on the night of March 31 was preceded by inept prevention by local police, subsequent to the killing attackers were not apprehended even though police personnel witnessed assault and saw accused including Puneeth Kerejhalli using social media to broadcast the crimes; overall investigations faulty and weak, says the Fact Finding Report into the Murder of Idrees Pasha in Sathanuru, Ramnagar, Karnataka. The family was not even provided a copy of the post mortem report
Gujarat HC orders status quo on Dahod Nagina Masjid demolitions
The Gujarat High Court directed the Dahod municipality to follow ‘due process of law’ on Nagina Masjid plot and give the petitioners the opportunity of a hearing.
120 Churches destroyed, Christians insecure: Manipur
With the internet being again shut down over the weekend in the state of Manipur, reports of close to 120 churches being burnt down has thrown into doubt and question the quality of governance in the state
Escalating atrocities against minorities, US urged to issue sanctions against offending individuals: IAMC
The first quarterly report of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) makes a detailed set of recommendations as it flags religious persecution in India
61 Muslims win in Uttar Pradesh urban polls on BJP tickets
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Results which give significant representation to the minority otherwise invisible in the political sphere have raised a debate on whether Muslims in the state are willing to vote for a party that has often stigmatized its own
K’taka: Bail to cow vigilante, Puneeth Kerehalli, accused of killing Muslim man
Kerehalli and 4 others were arrested on April 5 and were denied bail by trial court
Anti-Christian violence: Forcibly preventing prayer, raiding homes in Chhattisgarh, MP
Hindutva mobs target the Christian community this week, in separate incidents reported across states
SIT to probe Muslims offering respect from steps of Trimbakeshwar in Maharashtra ?
A controversy has been created over a ritual being...
3 arrested for ‘beating man, molesting hijab-clad women with him: Meerut, UP
The Indian Express reports states that the first information report (FIR) lodged at Kotwali police station by one of the two women on Saturday evening, she had gone to Bhagat Singh Market along with a friend and a colleague to buy a birthday gift for another friend
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Understanding the Supreme Court’s Interim Intervention in the Waqf Amendments, 2025
Be it on the issue of the disproportionately stringent control over the Islamic institution of Waqf (as compared to the administration of Hindu muths or temples), the Supreme Court’s part interim reliefs to the controversial 2025 Waqf Amendment Act, risk a judicial stamp on the state’s sledgehammer approach; a detailed analysis of the SC’s interim order dated September 15, 2025
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