Thursday, April 25, 2024

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“It’s a trap”: Why Bengali Hindus in Assam are opting out of Citizenship through CAA

Forty-three-year-old Montu Das was happy after the Indian government announced the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules on March 11.  The CAA grants fast-track citizenship to migrants in India from six...

Kerala: Church justifies screening of Adult film ‘The Kerala Story’ for minors; reignites Islamophobic bogey ‘Love Jihad’

Protests surrounding the Hindutva propaganda movie, 'The Kerala Story', resurfaced after the movie was screened by a church,...

34 crore blood money: Thousands join fundraiser to save Kerala man from death row in Saudi

Thousands have joined a Mother in Kerala’s Kozhikode in a last bid to save her son from being...

Analysing dip in Academic Freedom Index: Who takes the deepest plunge?

Dr. Shirin Akhter, Dr. Vijender Singh Chauhan The recent revelation on the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) shows that academic...

Election 2024: Samajwadi Party’s internal chaos might open a window for AIMIM in UP’s Meerut

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint rally alongside the NDA's new partner, Jayant Chaudhary’s...

Families of jailed Muslim activists break down at Iftar meet

"He told me he will be home before Ramadan," said Nargis Saifi, wife of jailed human rights activist Khalid Saifi jailed under India's terror law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act...

Lawyer for justice: Son of Muslim leader undertrial for 2 decades takes up the fight

Salahudeen Ayyoobi was 10 months old when his father and Peoples Democratic Party chairman Abdul Nasir Maudany got arrested and sent to Coimbatore central jail in 1998.
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2020 Delhi pogrom: Citizens’ chargesheet against hate-mongering

On February 26, 2020, the Delhi High Court asked the Delhi Police to take a “conscious decision” to register an FIR within 24 hours against BJP leaders Kapil Mishra,...

Ek Khumar ki Shaam (An evening of intoxication): A visit to Khumar Barabankvi’s home

Sitting in the drawing room where Khumar saheb used to sit with various famous shayars and poets was an amazing feeling for all of us.
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Poor Kashmiris targetted in anti-encroachment drive despite governor’s assurance

On 4 February, the stillness of cold winter morning at Srinagar's Padshahi Bagh was taken away by the screams of Sara Sofi, an old woman crying helplessly. Hundreds of...

Meet Kashmir’s female martial artists, shattering glass ceilings

Jabeena Akhtar, a champion in the Chinese martial art of Wushu, recalls a taunt she got as a child. Akhtar was bruised while playing and taken to a clinic...
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Villagers in Jammu concerned after cracks appear in houses, hundreds displaced

Major cracks and sinking of the residential houses have forced at least 200 people of Nai Basti village at Tathri in the Doda district of Jammu division to migrate...

Nellie Massacre; “Though impossible to describe, I will try”

Hemendra Narayan, a journalist from The Indian Express wrote an eyewitness account "Horrible doesn't describe it. How many deaths difficult to say" on 19 February 1983. Read the full text
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“Two years of torture”: In conversation with journalist Siddique Kappan

"My wife and my 17-year-old son had to travel to unfamiliar places for me. These are otherwise considered dangerous trips.“

One year on, Muslim girls in Karnataka grapple with hijab ban, anxious about future

As another end-term exams approach, 18-year-old Aliya Assadi is nervous about what may unfold in the coming days. Assadi, a final-year school girl from Karnataka’s coastal district of Udupi was...
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A year like a decade of punishment: GN Saibaba’s wife Vasantha

When the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted former Delhi University Professor G N Saibaba and five others in October 2022, Vasantha Kumari didn’t leave for Maharashtra...

Mewat lynching: Slain Muslim man booked for cow slaughter, Police refuses to file FIR against Bajrang Dal

Neighbours have poured in to console the family of 22-year-old Waris Khan who succumbed to his injuries on 28 January, leaving behind a three-month-old daughter. An unbearable grief has struck Hussainpur, a village in Haryana’s Nuh district.
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