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For many in India, and particularly in Gujarat, 26 March will always be remembered as a ‘black day!’ On that day in 2003, in keeping with an election promise,...
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
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