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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)

For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”

Eminent Author Salman Rushdie on Ventilator, Likely to Lose an Eye, Liver Damaged

Suspected stabber, a 24-year-old New Jersey resident identified as Hadi Matar, showed sympathy to causes of Iran's Revolutionary Guards: Media Report.

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UNSC to hold emergency meet to discuss escalation across Gaza Strip

United Arab Emirates has emphasized the need to restore calm to the Gaza Strip

Hiroshima Day— Threat of Actual Use of Nuclear Weapons, Accidental or Intended, is Increasing

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Rally for Teesta held on Udham Singh’s martyrdom day in Canada

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Address reprisals against activists in India: International Human Rights groups to EU

The groups named Fr. Stan Swamy, Teesta Setalvad and Khurram Parvez, in a joint statement urging EU to look into how activists are being targeted in India

Ndileka Mandela: Without intervention, India risks becoming an apartheid state

Islamophobia has corroded what was once the world’s largest democracy, as laws that belong to South Africa’s apartheid past pop up across India.

Teesta Setalvad’s arrest threatens India’s reputation: Eminent Canadians including Margaret Atwood

In letter to President of India, and Chief Justice of India, they urge for immediate intervention to secure their release

India ranks 135 out of 146 countries in WEF Gender Gap Index

Ranks below Saudi Arabia, but ahead of Pakistan and Afghanistan that are the bottom of the pile

US Congresswoman introduces resolution against human rights violations in India

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