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Hate Watch: Gurgaon’s communal side; residents oppose Friday namaz offered in open space
The Muslims in Sector 47 offer namaz at a site that has been designated for the same
UP: Where armed communal vigilante groups prowl the streets
An old man is abducted, assaulted in Loni; meatseller thrashed in Moradabad; vegetable vendor killed in Unnao; reporter threatened in Gorakhpur… all in the past one month!
Goa: Congress seeks withdrawal of gov’t order appointing hate monger Prashant Patel as State Counsel
SC lawyer Prashant Umrao has earned a reputation of spreading hate against minorities on social media
Priest Yati Narsinghanand says Muslim boy got ‘befitting reply’ for entering temple
Chief Priest of Dasna Devi temple came out in support of Shringi Yadav, who thrashed a young Muslim boy for entering a temple to drink water
Karnataka: BJP Minister says Muslim cannot contest for Belagavi Lok Sabha seat
The communal comment by the state Minster has attracted flak on social media for trying to further widen the gap between Hindus and Muslims in India.
Divisive videos promoting hate resurface as Bihar elections draw closer
The IT cell swings into action as it hunts down dated cases to disrupt social harmony and divert people’s attention from pressing issue to the usual ‘Hindu-Muslim-divide.’
‘UPSC Jihad’ in civil service recruitment: Suresh Chavhanke
The Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan News dubs rising number of Muslim civil servants a communal conspiracy
UP BJP Spokesperson calls consensual marriage ‘love jihad’
A Kanpur woman marries a Muslim man in Lucknow against her family’s wishes, right-wing trolls challenge union on social media
Hate Hatao: Hindutva page on FB posts old videos to incite new hate
This page with over 18,000 followers posts old provocative videos of right wing leaders
Social media hate machine goes into overdrive against Rhea Chakraborty
After Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise which is being investigated by the Police and now the Enforcement Directorate, Rhea has been constantly targeted on social media
Demolish temple to build mosque: Sajid Rashidi stokes controversy
This statement came a day after the Ram temple event of August 5. He is someone who is known to have supported BJP during Delhi elections
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Culture
‘What happened to Ali Mohammad was wrong’: UP temple’s Muslim caretaker held for offering namaz; Hindu priest to arrange bail, says he served with dignity for 35 years reports TOI
In Budaun, Times of India reported how a temple priest has offered to bail out a Muslim caretaker arrested for offering namaz on temple grounds. Paramanand Das condemned the video recording and emphasised Ali Mohammad's decades of faithful service. Despite the arrest and charges of defiling a place of worship, Das affirmed Ali's respect for all faiths and the temple's inclusive nature.
India
Odisha: senior Bhubaneswar municipal official assaulted on duty, told to “apologise” to BJP leader
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Farm and Forest
Independent experts, not government servants must be part of the CEC while deciding the challenge to Forest Conservation Act: Former bureaucrats to SC
Urging that independent experts must be part of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) advising the SC on the impacts, adverse of otherwise of the Forest Conservation Amendment Act (FCAA), 2023 –currently under challenge-- sixty former civil servants have in an open letter warned against the possibly “comprised stand and conflict of interest of the present CEC advising the Court
Rights
How Prisons Become Spaces of Quiet Erasure
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India
Bihar 2025 Election: EC drops parental birth document requirement for 4.96 crore electors and their children in Bihar
Amidst ongoing protest, opposition and debate surrounding the hastily announced revision process in Bihar, the Election Commission of India has now taken a step back; it has uploaded the 2003 Bihar electoral rolls, exempting 4.96 crore electors, and their children born after 1987, from submitting parental birth documents; individuals not on the 2003 list can still use its extracts for parental details, directly by the voters themselves
Media
Poonch Court orders FIR against Zee News, News18 for falsely labelling deceased teacher as “Pakistani terrorist” during Operation Sindoor coverage
While court orders FIR for defamation and public mischief, CJP had earlier filed complaint with broadcaster highlighting defamatory, Islamophobic coverage