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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,...

Muslim man beaten on board a train in UP, booked for sexual harassment

Asim even spoke to the media and said he was beaten only because someone said “all mullas are thieves”

Anti-Muslim targeting continues in UP, another historical Mosque is demolished

According to the Imam (priest) a litigation against the impending demolition was still pending in the lower court

Everyday Harmony: Muslim family offers land for Shivpuran Katha in Maharashtra

Hindus and Muslims of Parbhani district attempt to erase communal tensions by gestures to acceptance and tolerance

Eviction, yet another weaponised tool of the state in New India

MP, UP, Uttarakhand and Assam continue ‘Bulldozer action’

Provocative poster in Delhi’s Brahmpuri calls on Hindu landlords to not sell to Muslim buyers

Rumours abound as the offensive poster vitiates the atmosphere in an area where both communities live together

Times Now channel pulled up for communal report on “Zameen Jihad” in Haldwani

The program gave a skewed account that portrayed Muslims who were protesting the eviction order as adversaries of the State

Hindu society at war, natural to be aggressive says RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Organiser

Bhagwat’s sudden verbosity on Muslims, LGBTQIA community and Hindu aggression is curious

We Demand unconditional withdrawal of the unjust BMC notice to acquire St. Peter’s Sea Side Cemetery.

We also demand the withdrawal of the Amendments to the Development Plan DP of the Govt in September 2022, which requires the taking over of Cemetery Land for road widening when alternate options are available

Firing of art professor for showing a 14-century painting of Prophet Muhammad condemned: MPAC

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has, in a statement condemned the dismissal of art professor, Erica, López Prater, from Hamline University on the grounds of showing a fourteenth-century painting depicting the Prophet Muḥammad

Review of 2022: A year of discrimination & violence experienced by India’s religious minorities

Religious minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, have experienced persistent stigmatisation and attack, with governments and law enforcement complicit in a culture of impunity

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Draconian Law!

Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship

From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life

Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!

Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections

Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home

Summoning the district magistrate and SSP of Bareilly, the Allahabad High Court said any violence against the petitioner or his property would be presumed to have occurred at the instance of the State, as the case raises serious concerns over interference with religious prayers inside private property

35 civil society groups oppose Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion law, warn of threat to women’s autonomy and constitutional freedoms

Coalition, which also included CJP who is the lead petitioner on challenge to anti-conversion laws in SC, demands draft bill be made public, calls for consultations and legislative scrutiny; says existing criminal law already addresses coercion

Odisha: 18 months, 54 incidents of communal hate crimes, 7 mob lynchings

Admitting to a spiral in communally driven hate crimes in eastern state of Odisha since June 2024 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a majoritarian outfit came to power, Odisha’s chief minister, Charan Majhi said on Monday, March 9 that 54 such incidents and seven mob lynchings were recorded in that state; this was in a written reply to the State Assembly