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After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal

With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance

Radha Semwal Dhoni physically assaults three Christians and accuses them of forcing children to convert to Christianity

Despite the fact that the three claimed to work for an NGO and provide coaching to children, she turns them over to police

Video: Two Muslim minors tied to tree, beaten in UP’s Barabanki dist, 3 held

A video has gone viral on social media platforms where abuses are being hurled at the minor boys who look visibly scared.

NBDSA: Complaint filed against Times Now’s problematic and anti-Muslim ‘Zameen Jihad’ show

The program used the Haldwani eviction issue to give a skewed account of the protesting Muslim Community

SC: India is a secular country; PIL for RTE Act implementation should benefit members of all weaker sections

Petitioners will file the amended PIL so as to ensure that the RTE benefits are not limited to one particular section

‘Forcibly Removed by Rampur Admin to Make Way for Hindu Vendors,’ Say Muslim Street Sellers

On January 15, close to 70 street vendors were removed from a stretch at Jwalanagar in Rampur. Muslim vendors have claimed that their slots have been given to new, Hindu vendors and that earlier Hindu vendors were allowed to return.

Gauhati HC orders the Assam Govt to rehabilitate the remaining families rendered homeless in eviction drives

100 families remaining out of the 700 evicted will now get a chance to present their case and substantiate their claims for resettlement

Mohsin Shaikh murder: All of the Hindu Rashtra Sena accused acquitted

The 28-year-old Pune techie was murdered while on his way home after offering namaz at a mosque

Chhattisgarh: 1,100 Christians converted to Hinduism in “ghar wapsi” ceremony, by BJP Sec

The Chhattisgarh state secretary is known to conduct such ‘homecoming’ ceremonies across the state

21 years later, 14 acquitted for murder in one of the many 2002 Gujarat riots cases

They were accused of killing and burning bodies of 17 Muslims in one of the many incidents of widespread violence in Gujarat in 2002, in the aftermath of the burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra

Marching through a Muslim dominated area, a mob raises provocative and communal slogans

Halting outside a mosque, the mob chanted: Say Vande Mataram if you have to live in India

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After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal

With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance