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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

With CJP’s help, Mojibor Sheikh finally walks out of Assam Detention Centre

After he was thrown behind bars, his wife had to take up employment as a domestic help, his son had dropped out of school

Wasim Rizvi releases book full of Islamophobic diatribe

Book launched by none other than Yati Narsinghanand is full of vile allegations against Prophet Mohammed and Islam

Amravati violence: Minority owned shops targeted during bandh by Hindutva groups

Curfew extended to four more towns, 60 arrested, 8 BJP members detained

Violence erupts in Maharashtra after bandh call by Raza Academy

The group had called for a bandh to protest the persecution of Muslims and destruction of mosques in Tripura, but several instances of violence were reported from Amravati, Malegaon and Nanded

Madhya Pradesh: NCPCR ‘inspects’ girls hostel run by nuns, alleges conversion

There are five Christian girls and 14 Hindu girls in residence; the Christian children hail from North Eastern states, the rest are from the interior villages of MP and have no proper access to schools back home

Will go so court to challenge sacking: Doctor Kafeel Khan

He was previously suspended from the government run BRD Medical College despite organising oxygen cylinders to save lives of infants; now sacked despite clean chit from court 

UP: How did a 5.6 foot Altaf ‘hang himself’ to death from a 2 foot pipe in a police lockup toilet?

Questions are being raised over UP Police’s lock up suicide theory in custodial death of Muslim youth; victim’s father now says he’s ‘satisfied’ with police

UP: Muslim man accused of kidnapping Hindu girl dies in police custody

Altaf’s family alleges he was murdered in custody, but police claim he hung himself to death with a drawstring in the lockup’s toilet

Meghalaya: Eviction imminent for Dalit Sikh families?

State government acquires land on which Punjabi Lane was built; residents who are sanitation workers and their families to be relocated to staff quarters

Assam minorities take anti-eviction protest to Delhi

AAMSU hold demonstration at Jantar-Mantar on demonetisation anniversary to highlight regime's many anti-minority decisions in the state of Assam

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