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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)”

Reproductive rights of American women in jeopardy?

A leaked draft of a majority opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito indicates that a majority of the justices could be inclined to strike down Roe vs. Wade

Guess where India stands on the World Press Freedom Index?

India’s ranking has fallen to 150 out of 180 countries, slipping further this year in the Reporters Without Borders’ Index 

Why the indigenous language movement in J&K’s erstwhile Doda is crucial

The initiatives to revitalise and maintain Indigenous languages in erstwhile Doda in Jammu. hold the key to understanding who we really are 

USCIRF recommends India be designated Country of Particular Concern for third straight year!

The 2022 report of the organization that monitors freedom of religion and belief puts India in the same bracket as Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Korea and Syria

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

‘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

We Indian Muslims need no sermons from the Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda’s supreme commander Ayman Zawahiri has recently released a standalone statement on the Hijab controversy in India

A fitting reply to Al Qaeda chief: Muskan’s father 

A clear and strong message to the head of the terror outfit not to meddle in affairs 

Now Al Qaeda intrudes on the hijab controversy

The untimely video only furthers right wing claims of terrorist groups’ involvement in hijab protests

Why UN’s Islamophobia Resolution Troubles Moderate Muslims

It Is Important That UN Defines The Contours Of Islamophobia

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