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Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community 

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

2021: A year of unprecedented communal hate crimes

The sheer nature and number of incidents of communal hate crimes in 2021 are overwhelming and a reminder to authorities that it is high time to act against them

According to MHA, Missionaries of Charity itself “requested SBI to freeze its own accounts”!

Ministry of Home Affairs has said it rejected Missionaries of Charity’s renewal application under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act “due to adverse inputs”

Alienation and apathy: Assam government’s 2021 agenda?

From a new cow protection law to eviction of minority communities, here are some of the Assam government’s most blatantly exclusionist policy decisions of 2021

22,000 inmates hit as Missionaries of Charity’s bank accounts are reportedly ‘frozen’!

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expresses shock at the Union government's brazen action against Mother Teresa’s organisation in India

Was Rahul Khan’s Muslim identity that led his friends to hack him to death?

Rahul Khan, a Muslim resident of Rasoolpur village in Haryana's Palwal was hacked to death by his ‘friends’ Kalua,Vishal, Akash and some others

Jamia attack anniversary: Arundhati Roy compares CAA-NRC with Hitler’s Nuremberg law

Interestingly this meet was on a day when Jamia Millia Islamia got an A++ rank in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) review

Bashing Christians in India

The divisive agenda is clearly to polarise sections of the majority community against the Christians

Targeting Christian community not a new phenomenon in Karnataka: PUCL report  

Report traces history and evolution of Hate Crimes against Christians in the state where right-wing vigilantes are given a virtual carte blance to unleash violence and terror upon minorities

Gujarat: Why was a Christian ashram accused of conversion even after enquiry found nothing amiss?

An FIR was lodged in this regard under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act at Makarpura police station based on a complaint by District Social Defence Officer Mayank Trivedi

Karnataka’s Right-Wing groups most active against Christians ahead of State Assembly meet 

Right wing mob sets Christian books ablaze in Kolar, in Belagavi man enters church armed with a machete; Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai hints that draft “anti-conversion bill” may be approved by cabinet

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Cabinet move under the 1950 Act empowers District Commissioners to expel alleged foreigners in 10 days, raising constitutional concerns over due process and separation of powers

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Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra

A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.

Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic

Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”

Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate