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Fractured Fault lines: Violence, governance gaps, and rising tensions across Odisha

From church vandalism and communal flashpoints to tribal resistance, welfare exclusions, and political impunity—recent developments point to deepening fault lines in Odisha’s social and administrative landscape

Police disrupt anti hate-speech campaign in Mira-Bhayandar 

 ‘Don’t name the MLA, say the police, confiscate postcards and strike out the legislator’s name from banners at the venue

Marginalising the already marginalised: Economic Boycott Targeting Muslims

Looking into the prevailing economic status of the Muslim minority in India shows that these calls for their economic boycott will further push them over a dangerous precipice of marginalisation.

Selling One’s Soul – The betrayal of Christ and Constitution

For the past couple of days, electronic and print...

Himanta Biswa Sarma targets poll bound Karnataka, spreads communally divisive ideology, distorts history, attacks Congress

The new poster-boy of Hindutva’s hate mongering, the Assam CM also says that he envisions the new India to have more Ram Janmabhoomis, more temples, and to be madrassas free

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.

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