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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

Right-wing group attacks Christian stall at World Book Fair, stoking communal tensions

The Hindu mob circled the stall, accused Christians of forcing poor Hindus into religious conversions

Uttarakhand: Mazar demolished by far right extremists

Radha Semwal, reputed for her anti-minority stance, purportedly headed the group of men.

After desecration, vandalism, a statue stolen from historic Mumbai’s Byculla church

There have been a string of what appear like stray attacks of vandalism on Christian graveyards and churches in cosmopolitan Mumbai

Descendants of Tipu will not win, says BJP MLA in Karnataka

Adding fuel to the Tipu Sultan row in Karnataka and ahead of the assembly elections in the state, these comments were made by Basangouda Patil Yatnal

Brinda Karat on the Third Anniversary of Delhi Riots- “Cannot Abandon Struggle for Justice”

There has been a slew of challenges ranging from rehabilitation and compensation to the perusal of justice.

From the margins to the Centre, more and more hate speeches against Muslims are made, deafening silence from the authorities continues

Videos of hate speech by religious leaders, sloganeering in police presence, offensive statements against Prophet surface online

Noida cops suspended for inaction in 2 yr-old hate crime against elderly Muslim man

The man was attacked in July 2021 for his religious identity; he was reportedly stripped while derogatory anti-Muslim slurs were hurled at him by some goons in a car

Curb on internet, SMS in Nuh as protests demanding justice for Junaid-Nasir escalate

After Friday prayers, thousands gathered in Ferozpur Jhirka to demand arrest of the accused and calling for disbanding the Cow Protection Task Force of the state government

Calcutta cook lynched in Bihar weeks before marriage

Saddam, the elder brother of the deceased man, has said the three youths were returning from a feast at another village when they were brutally attacked

Christians & Muslims excluded from voters list in Karnataka, HC approached

Complaints of deliberate exclusion of voters from the minority community from key seats in Karnataka have been surfacing with worrying regularity, now the focus is Bengaluru’s spotlight Shivajinagar constituency

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Court stays proceedings against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat over alleged derogatory remarks targeting Muslim women

After a video of his alleged inflammatory speech at a Deepotsava event went viral, the Sessions Court in Puttur restrained police from arresting or detaining Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat — the latest in a long series of hate speech complaints against the influential RSS organiser in coastal Karnataka

Haunted by NRC fears, 57-year-old West Bengal man dies by suicide; Mamata blames BJP for turning democracy into a “theatre of fear”

Pradip Kar, a resident of West Bengal, allegedly died by suicide, leaving behind a note that, “NRC is responsible for my death” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP for turning democracy into a “theatre of fear”, the family told police that Pradip had been deeply disturbed by reports related to the NRC — a tragedy reminiscent of the March 2024 Kolkata case of 31-year-old Debashish Sengupta, who allegedly died by suicide over fears related to the CAA

Statistical Amnesia: How Communal Violence Vanishes in NCRB 2023

When “rioting” becomes the default label, targeted violence is invisible—this is India’s quiet apocalypse in the NCRB 2023 report

ECI’s announced nationwide SIR, will cover 12 States and UTs with a reduced documentary burden

The ECI’s nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR), announced across 12 States and Union Territories — including Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal — scales back the stringent document collection requirements seen earlier in Bihar’s SIR, prioritising inclusion over immediate documentary proof during enumeration

Citizens move to stop privatisation of Mumbai’s Public Hospitals

Aspatal Bachao Neejikaran Hatao Kruti Samiti and Unions that font a coalition are also demanding adequate health staff and upgraded public health services for all people of Mumbai

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?