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Understanding the Supreme Court’s Interim Intervention in the Waqf Amendments, 2025
Be it on the issue of the disproportionately stringent control over the Islamic institution of Waqf (as compared to the administration of Hindu muths or temples), the Supreme Court’s part interim reliefs to the controversial 2025 Waqf Amendment Act, risk a judicial stamp on the state’s sledgehammer approach; a detailed analysis of the SC’s interim order dated September 15, 2025
How has Swami Vivekananda looked at Jesus Christ?
Vivekananda strongly argued that Jesus belonged to the Eastern world (Asia). He went even further, boldly claiming that all great souls and incarnations originated in the Orient.
Christmas under siege: right-wing target Christmas celebrations across states, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala
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Across the country, Christmas celebrations are facing mounting opposition from right-wing groups accusing religious conversion and cultural invasion. In Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, VHP activists disrupt school events, abuse staff, and incite communal hate against the Christmas celebrations, two VHP leaders booked and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days in Kerala
Missing the Mark: Inviting PM Modi to a Christmas Reception Ignores the Plight of Persecuted Christians
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For my birthday, ‘you are organising in my name,’ a point of order: Christmas invite to PM Modi
Dear Leaders of the Christian Community in India,Greetings of peace,...
Uttar Pradesh’s new tactics for harassment: Electricity theft charges, strategic revival of temple, opening up of 1978 Sambhal communal riots cases
In a shift from demolition drives and religious surveys, the UP government targets Muslim-majority areas with electricity theft accusations, leading to fines, power cuts, and allegations of politically motivated harassment, particularly against Muslim opposition figures like MP Zia-Ur-Rahman Barq.
Uttarakhand: Retd. Muslim Army Officer Faces Ire of ‘Hindutva’ Forces; FIR Filed After 2-Yr Legal Battle
The retired Army officer, also a BJP leader who runs a school in Vikasnagar, had to move the court to get an FIR lodged against the alleged accused. The police is yet to act on it.
“Civil courts can’t run a race with the Supreme Court” says SC Bench while putting a stay on orders for surveys on Places of...
In a significant intervention, the Supreme Court directs trial courts to refrain from registering new suits and passing any effective orders, including surveys, in cases challenging the religious character of places of worship pending the challenge to the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act of 1991
Sambhal Mosque, Ajmer Dargah: how deep do we plunge into the abyss?
A misplaced and selective narrative of distorted history is whipping up social tensions and threatening lasting peace
Rising Tensions: Muslim Religious Sites face renewed attacks, demand for survey in Delhi’s Jama Masjid and Hanuman Chalisa
New legal disputes at the behest of Hindu groups and public provocations fuel communal discord, undermining India’s pluralistic fabric and threatening interfaith harmony
Upholding the Madarsa Education Act as constitutional, the SC however restricted the Board’s right to confer degrees
Upholding the law as not infringing fundamental rights or secularism, the Supreme Court however upheld the State’s right to regulate higher education degrees
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