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Jantar Mantar shut to protest, CJP leaders sent to jail, Delhi police invoke ‘breach of peace’
Denotification of the protest site precedes preventive action against Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who attempted to enter the barricaded area and unfurl the Tricolour
Sweden: Three injured as protests continue against right-wing group’s plan to burn copies of the Quran
Quran burning plan by same hardliner who had floated a similar idea in 2020 and was deported from France because of it
Turning Ambedkar into an icon bereft of his principles
Image Courtesy:.thehansindia.comThis 14 April (2022) we will again witness different...
Remove loudspeakers from mosques before Eid: Raj Thackeray
Relying on communal diatribe to remain politically relevant, the MNS chief issues a blatantly communal ultimatum to mosques to prevent "division and riots"
Emergence of ‘Super States’ in India
What happens when we allow our elected representatives to violate human rights in the name of “national security”?
Are Karnataka’s BJP leaders already playing good cop – bad cop ahead of election year?
Bharatiya Janata Party is all set for Elections 2022, two senior leaders speak up against anti-Muslim violence; CM yet to condemn it strongly
Activists claim Karnataka police under tremendous political pressure
Tired of appealing to various police officials, activists openly call out the political pressure preventing the executive from performing its duties
Proposed K-Rail project to wreck Kerala’s fragile ecology
EIA report full of holes, gov’t pushing project through without answering key questions about land acquisition, rehabilitation and deforestation
Vasant More rejects communalism, stands up to Raj Thackeray
Pune’s Katraj Muslims sigh in relief as Corporator Vasant More refuses to follow Thackeray’s instructions to play Hanuman Chalisa outside masjids to protest loudspeakers
‘What will it take for the Biden administration to call out Modi’s regime for human rights violations?’: US lawmaker, Ilhan Omar
Eloquently stating that the Modi years have criminalised the act of being Muslim, the Congresswoman from Minnesota likened Modi to Chile’s Pinochet and raised pertinent points on the lurking genocidal climate in India
15 seats in UP Assembly elections won by a margin of less than 1,000 votes: ADR
After SabrangIndia’s early analysis, ADR now says 15 constituencies had a victory margin of less than 1,000 votes
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