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Religious, caste-based violence in India 2024: A concern that refuses to slow down
India’s worsening condition of minorities continued in 2024, especially in the months before and after the Lok Sabha General Elections. The country witnessed a surge in hate speeches, including inflammatory remarks by…
- India
Videos: Interfaith couples harassed by right-wing groups
In recent events, two alarming incidents of harassment targeting interfaith couples have come to light from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, shedding light on the ongoing threat of right-wing vigilante groups and…
- India
Instagram fuels cow vigilantism, violence in India: Report
A report has exposed social media platform Instagram accusing it of fuelling cow vigilantism violence in India. The report titled, Streaming Violence: How Instagram Fuels Cow Vigilantism in India, by the Center…
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Complaint against Narsinghanand in Ajmer over remarks
Jaipur: A complaint was filed against Yati Narsinghanand, the head priest of Ghaziabad’s Dasna temple, at Rajasthan’s Ajmer Dargah police station on Friday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments. The complaint was lodged…
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Udaipur: Teenage stabbing victim succumbs to injuries, security for funeral
Jaipur: After battling for life for four days, a 15-year-old boy, whose stabbing by a fellow student sparked communal violence in Udaipur, succumbed to injuries on Monday. Sometime before the boy –…
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Jharkhand: Saimul Sheikh beaten to death over ‘phone theft’; 3 detained
A 22-year-old man named Samiul Sheikh was beaten to death with sticks and rods and strangled by Hindutva goons who thought he was a thief in Jharkhand’s Pakur district. The grievously wounded…
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Fifth lynching in 30 days in Bengal, ninth Muslim victim in India since June
Amid back-to-back lynchings in West Bengal, a 35-year-old Muslim man identified as Azgar Molla was beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of theft in Kolkata’s Bhanar area on Sunday, July…
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Shamli lynching: After journalists, UP police book YouTube channel
After lodging FIRs against five persons including journalist Zakir Ali Tyagi, Shamli police have registered a case against a Bihar-based YouTube channel named Hindustani Media over similar allegations. The channel has over…