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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
Rising Intolerance in Maharashtra: 2 Muslim boys arrested for putting a status on Aurangzeb
Both Muslim boys, arrested by the Kohlapur police, have been charged for disturbing “religious harmony”
A Secular Marriage Law Comes To the Rescue of Indian Muslim Parents
Some Families Are Quietly Subverting the Muslim Personal Law to Provide Inheritance to Their Daughters By Registering Their Marriages Under The Special Marriage Act
#GetWellSoonGeetaJain Campaign gets off the ground, Mira Road Bhayander residents’ push back against Hate
Citizens of Mira Road-Bhayander are launching a unique citizens counter communication narrative to drive out #HateVirus from their midst, starting with their elected representative, MLA Geeta Jain
No data maintained on religion-wise distribution of jobs for minority communities in Public Sector Institutions: MoMA
As Smriti Irani provides a list of schemes for the minority community, lack of data brings up the question of schemes even being implemented
Tension prevails in #Haveri, # Rattihalli after stone pelting on Mosque and Homes: Karnataka
A special visit by ADGP Karnataka led to heightened security in the area, the deployment of six platoons of the KSRP, 23 arrests five of whom are minors
VHP functionary held in bid to extort money from priest after concocting false allegations
This is yet another example of a strong network of vigilantes that uses extortion to pressurize the Christian clergy. According to The Hindu, police have arrested Muthuvel, 40, district secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on the charge of demanding money from a parish priest in the Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu.
Violence breaks out after controversial route of a procession passes Mosque in Karnataka’s Haveri, 15 detained
Stones were reportedly pelted on Muslim homes and a...
Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh: Sikh man thrashed and turban thrown
On the occasion of Holi, a Sikh man on his motorcycle was reportedly beaten and his turban was tossed by a group of men in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit
Muslim truck driver allegedly attacked by cow vigilantes in Palwal, Haryana
A group of vigilantes who call themselves "gau raskshaks" pursue and intercept a truck transporting cows
Hateful sloganeering at a Rang Panchami celebration in Madhya Pradesh
In spite of the festival being a time of joy and colour, the video's atmosphere is dreary
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Citizens move to stop privatisation of Mumbai’s Public Hospitals
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Can majoritarian societal pressure re-write the rulebook? The illegality behind forced non-veg shutdowns during festivals
Across cities, self-styled vigilantes and pliant administrations are turning a majoritarian religious sentiment into state policy—forcing meat shops shut, harassing small vendors, and eroding constitutional freedoms. As livelihood and dietary choice fall victim to faith-led policing, we ask, can devotion be invoked to justify discrimination? Does this trend underline how faith is being weaponised to erode rights and livelihoods?
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CJP flags casteist, anti-Dalit videos on YouTube targeting CJI Gavai; seeks urgent takedown
CJP has filed a complaint highlighting two videos on YouTube carrying casteist and hateful commentary against Chief Justice B.R. Gavai. The organisation has demanded their prompt removal and action against the channel @AjeetBharti for violating the platform’s community guidelines
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“This system breaks the body when it cannot break the spirit” — Ipsa Shatakshi on her jailed husband, journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh
In a heartfelt letter, Ipsa Shatakshi — wife of jailed journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh — wrote of three years of silence, courage, and the slow suffering behind bars, her words paint a portrait of a journalist punished not for crime, but for conscience
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A century and ten later, innovative & rebellious Ismat Chugtai remains more relevant than ever
Today, October 24, is the 110th death anniversary of the bold, innovative, rebellious, and unabashedly realistic Urdu fiction writer Ismat Chughtai! Born on August 21, 1915, she passed away at the age of 76 in Mumbai on October 24, 1991; Sabrangindia recalls her unique contribution with this piece by Taran Khan