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A week of anti-minority hate that grips UP-Uttarakhand
Eight incidents across Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand between June 28 and July 5, 2026, ranging from hate speech and conspiracy rhetoric to forced religious sloganeering and vigilante violence targeted religious minorities. The recurring use of ‘jihad’ narratives, demographic anxieties, anti-conversion rhetoric, and vigilante enforcement illustrate a continuing pattern of communal polarisation and vigilantism.
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Graves desecrated in Mumbai’s Mahim church, FIR filed
Over a dozen graves desecrated in Mahim’s St. Michael’s church even as BMC withdraws notices to vacate the 115 year-old Bandra cemetry
CJP moves NCM, writes to DGP Maharashtra against notorious hate offender Kalicharan
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In his inflammatory speech, Kalicharan had asserted that "Love-Jihad" may be cured by ingesting water that has had a wild boar tooth left in it overnight.
Muslim man thrashed for ‘walking with Hindu girl’: Karnataka
The Hindustan Times reports that, according to the police, the youth Afeed (20), from Kallugundi near Sullia, came with the minor girl to Kukke Subramanya temple on Thursday.
“Find a practical solution”, says SC as it stayed order for eviction of 50,000 people
The Uttarakhand High Court’s order, while looking at the legal aspects of the case, failed to look at the human side, as pointed out by the apex court, and did not even hear the affected parties in the case.
PM’s ‘deafening silence’ on attacks on Christians concerning, outfits protest such attacks
'The deafening silence of the Prime Minister on atrocities against Christians over a long period of time in different parts of the country is a notable, a matter of concern, said the Khasi Jaintia Christian Leaders Forum.
SC stays Uttarakhand HC Order, residents can’t be evicted in seven days
The Supreme Court has stayed a controversial order of...
Not an inch of our cemetery land, Mumbai Christians protest BMC demolition notice
A 115 year old cemetery with over 400 graves is threatened by a BMC takeover, protests Bombay Catholic Sabha
Stop demolition of over 4,000 Muslim-owned homes in Uttarakhand: Indian Americans Muslim diaspora to SC
IAMC has also condemned the planned mass demolition of thousands of Muslim-owned homes and questioned the judgement of the Uttarakhand government allowing these demolitions
Spate of Demolitions continue, 44 Muslim families asked to vacate homes: Kushinagar, UP
The state government, claiming that the homes of residents are built on encroached land, has sent eviction notices to 47 families of Nutan Hardo village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar village, out of which 44 are Muslim.
Forcible Conversions in Narayanpur and Kondagaon districts in Chhattisgarh – Part III
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