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Hate crimes: Report documents 602 hate crimes, 345 hate speech incidents in 1st year of Modi’s third term

A staggering 947 hate-driven incidents have dotted the first year of the third term of the Modi (NDA) regime says a report jointly documented by the APCR and Quill Foundation and released recently

Chaos in Bangladesh provides opportunity to right-wing social media to spread misinformation regarding Hindus, temples being attacked in the country

False news regarding rape of Hindu women, arson of Hindu temples being spread, fact-checkers take to busting these false narratives, sharing videos of students protecting temples in Bangladesh

In Delhi, 122,729 applications sent to DDA for ownership rights under PM UDAY, only 23,811 conferred ownership rights: Lok Sabha

With a stark ratio of 1:5, only 1 in 5 applicants have received ownership rights under flagship PM Uday scheme

Urdu signboard reinstated at Varanasi City Railway Station after intervention from the civil society members

In the memorandum submitted to the superintendent of the Varanasi City Railway Station, the civil society group had questioned the railways for failing to reinstate Urdu board and demanded its reinstallation

Father D’Britto, the pioneer of the Harit Vasai movement, passes away at 81

Father D’Britto had authored over 50 books and was a prolific writer contributing to several Marathi newspaper

Why Babadom Flourishes: Insecurity is the Core

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Criminalising ‘Conversions’!

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First week of July saw 3 major telecom companies increase tariff by 10-25% across plans, Congress calls it a case of thriving off “crony...

While Reliance Jio hiked the prices by an average of 20%, Vodafone hiked the tariff price by an average of 16%, and Airtel by 15%; union government clarifies that they will not interfere

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Bhole Baba whose satsang in Hathras, UP, resulted in...

Celebrating the Spirit of Stan Swamy

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