Hate Crime
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Uttarakhand BJP BLAs submit 6,500 forms to delete minority voters
Five men linked to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have filed 6,500 bulk objections to delete Muslim names from the electoral rolls in five Uttarakhand constituencies in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision…
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Gujarat: Hindutva groups attack reading session on Malala’s book
Ahmedabad: A reading session of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s memoir ‘I Am Malala’ turned violent in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city after a group of people identifying as Hindutva workers attacked the…
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No water since a month: Minority Kolkata colony alleges bias
Kolkata: Several hundred families in a minority-majority colony in West Bengal’s Kolkata have been living without water for nearly a month, with residents alleging links to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ritesh…
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Nadda meets Reservation Hatao team; AAP, CJP question govt
New Delhi: The government on Thursday, August 27, reached out to the representatives of the group spearheading the Reservation Hatao Andolan, with Union minister JP Nadda holding a “cordial discussion” with them…
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Communal clash during Milad-un-Nabi in Mumbai, three booked
Mumbai: Three Muslim men have been booked in connection with the Milad-un-Nabi clash in Mumbai’s Parel area on Wednesday night, August 26, after a procession passed through a Hindu-majority area. The Bhoiwada…
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Telangana Congress social media in-charge beaten up, urinated on
Hyderabad: A social media in-charge for the Congress party, reportedly belonging to the BC Munnuru Kapu community, was allegedly beaten up and urinated upon by a sub-inspector in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district. According…
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Uttarakhand BJP chief defends ‘shuddhikaran’, Congress hits back
New Delhi: Despite Union Minister JP Nadda calling the ‘shuddhikaran’ ceremony at the Haldwani rally venue “unfortunate”, Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Mahendra Bhatt has defended the ritual, prompting Congress to…
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Bengaluru Eid Milad clash: Three cases registered, six held
Bengaluru: Three cases had been registered and six people arrested in connection with a clash during an Eid Milad procession in Basavanagudi here on Wednesday, August 26, the police said. The incident…
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Odisha: Cow vigilantes force couple to kneel, chant Jai Shri Ram
Bhubaneswar: A Muslim couple in Odisha’s capital, Bhubaneswar, was forced to kneel and chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Jai Gau Mata’ after a group of self-proclaimed cow vigilantes alleged they were carrying…
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Mumbai pastors get worshippers to sign forms proving free will
Mumbai: As the Maharashtra anti-conversion law comes into force on August 28, local pastors in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region are asking worshippers to fill out “self-declaration” forms clarifying that they are attending…
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UN flags police abuse against Rohingya, Dalits, Muslims in India
Geneva: A United Nations committee on racial discrimination has flagged grave concern over the significant increase in police action and state-administered violence against Rohingya refugees, Bengali-speaking Muslims and Dalits in India. The…
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TN: 25-year-old Dalit man hacked to death in honour killing
Chennai: A 23-year-old Dalit youth was hacked to death in a suspected honour killing in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district. The assailants, identified as Manikandan, Ezhumalai, Nantheesh, and Gautam, allegedly used machetes to…
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Bhojshala row: Dhar bandh called over SC order ‘violation’
Dhar: Hindutva organisations called for a half-day bandh in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar city on Tuesday, August 25, accusing the administration of failing to strictly enforce the Supreme Court’s order regarding the Bhojshala-Kamal…
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UP: Madrasa razed, management held after being declared illegal
Muzaffarnagar: A madrasa was demolished by a bulldozer in Phulat village of Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district on Sunday, August 23, after it was declared illegal by the district administration, a police official…
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UP madrasa student assaulted on train for refusing alcohol offer
Uttar Pradesh: A Muslim young man was allegedly assaulted by an inebriated group while travelling in a train from Meerut to Deoband. Muntazir, a madrasa student, was heading towards Darul Uloom Deoband,…
