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- India
SC seeks Centre’s response on plea to end polygamy among Muslims
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, July 31, sought the Centre’s response on a plea seeking to have polygamy among Muslims declared unconstitutional and asking for a direction to Parliament to abolish…
- Hate Crime
87 hate crimes, 15 pc rise: June tracker paints grim picture
Hyderabad: India logged 87 incidents of hate crime against religious and caste minorities in June, a jump of nearly 15 per cent over the previous month, according to data compiled by Siasat.com. The attacks…
- Hate Crime
SC allows Friday prayers at dargah land near Dhar’s Bhojshala
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, July 30, permitted Muslims to offer Friday prayers at the premises of a dargah adjacent to the disputed Bhojshala complex at Dhar in Madhya Pradesh.…
- Opinions
How the Congress govt in Telangana is enabling Hindutva and hate
Hyderabad: I think the headline is enough to understand where I’m going with this piece. All of us expect and know what the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hindutva groups stand for in…
- India
Mumbai shopkeeper steps in for burqa-clad women, slaps harasser
Mumbai: A shopkeeper stepped in for two Muslim women who were constantly being followed and harassed by a young man in Mumbai’s Dongri area. CCTV (closed-circuit television) footage shows the two women…
- Hate Crime
Suvendu vows Goonda Act on ‘Friday people’ involved in protests
Kolkata: Of the 14 people arrested in connection with the NEET protests in Kolkata,13 were Muslims, with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari promising to invoke the “Goonda” law against the arrested,…
- India
CJP volunteer Junaid moves SC, alleges police harassed family
New Delhi: Mohammad Junaid, who served as a food volunteer during the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) student protests against the NEET paper leak in Delhi, has moved the Supreme Court, alleging that he…
- India
No law bans consumption of chicken on Ganga: SC judge
Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday, July 26, said there was no law banning anyone from consuming chicken over the Ganga, referring to the arrest of 14 Muslim youth over the…
- Hyderabad
Man alleges he was called ‘terrorist’ in Hyderabad parking row
Hyderabad: A Muslim man alleged that a woman called him a “terrorist” during an argument over a parking mishap in the Attapur police limits here on Sunday evening, July 26, in an incident…
- India
Arrested for his support to CJP protest, Junaid’s family let off
New Delhi: The family of Muhammad Junaid, who had alleged that he was targeted by the Uttar Pradesh Police for providing meals to NEET paper leak protesters at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, has been…
- India
Assam Police arrest 3 Muslim men over bid to organise CJP protest
Lakhimpur (Assam): The Assam Police arrested three Muslim men on July 23 on charges of attempting to organise a protest in support of the nationwide student movement. Monjur Rahman (23), Ashraful Islam…
- India
Three men beaten on moving train, called ‘Bangladeshis’
Three people were pinned to the ground on a moving train and assaulted by other passengers who accused them of being Bangladeshi. A video of the assault shows the three men sitting…
- India
Hey Mullah: CJP protester gets Blinkit pork bacon COD order
Kolkata: A Muslim social media content creator at a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) demonstration in Kolkata alleged that he was targeted with a hateful message and an unsolicited Blinkit Cash-On-Delivery (COD) order…
- Hyderabad
Hate crime fell in Q2 2026 in Telangana, but there’s more to this
Hyderabad: On June 27, a group of men walked into Bharat Chandra School in Armoor, in Telangana’s Nizamabad district and confronted the principal in front of the police. The principal, 37-year-old Amer Khan,…
- Opinions
Keep the bulldozers away from Jauhar University
While attending the first Round Table Conference in London in 1930, writer-poet and freedom fighter Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar boldly told the British Raj, “If you do not give us freedom in…
