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Delhi: Between Protection & Prayer: Stories of revered sites now under the protection of ASI

In Delhi, some monuments are not just remnants of the past. They continue to function as places of prayer, remain part of neighbourhood life, and exist within an ongoing struggle over who owns them, who maintains them, and who decides how they may be used. The authors examine the layered complexities involved

39 Years and the Ghosts of Nellie Massacre Haunt Assam

India’s first genocidal pogrom on February 18, 1983 preceded the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and other cities and has vanished from public acknowledgment and memory

New Delhi: Journalists unions protest targeting, harassment

Unions called for wider mobilisation, pledged solidarity with Central Trade Union protest against Labour Codes on March 28-29

Hijab controversy: Social media turns attention to other religions in schools

Netizens talk about the presence of other religions in schools while the question of Islamophobia remains unaddressed

Hijab controversy now hits schools!

After barring college students from entry, Karnataka schools are asking children to remove hijab

Chhattisgarh: School removes ‘Cross’ from its 30-year-old uniform logo “under duress”

The management of the New Life English Higher Secondary School withdrew the symbol after parents objected

Photojournalist T Kumar’s death by sucide exposes the state of affairs at UNI

Dealing with a 60 month salary backlog, senior UNI photojournalist T Kumar had died by suicide in his Chennai office

Police crackdown on student protesters in Delhi, Kolkata

Delhi students succeed in voicing their demands through rigorous protests, but Kolkata students face a harsher reality

K’taka HC disallows wearing of any religious dress in class; denies interim relief to petitioners

The SC denies urgent hearing in appeal against the order saying it will take up matter at “appropriate time”

Facebook’s plans to curb online hate during Indian elections: Too little too late?

Parent company Meta announces a slew of measures including activating its Election Operations Centre

Busted! Times Now anchor fails to make important distinction between ban on Islamic traditional veils

Tries to school Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai for her Tweet about the Hijab controversy in Karnataka; gets fact checked and schooled himself!

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