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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...

Khargone: Tribunal fined Muslim boy on BJP leader’s complaint filed 4 months after violence

On 10th April 2022, Khargone city in Madhya Pradesh witnessed anti-muslim violence by Hindutva groups during Ram Navami processions which led to large-scale destruction of government and private property,...

“We still don’t know why he was killed,” says children of Muslim man lynched in UP

On 02 September 2022, around 10:15 pm., Dawood Ali Tyagi, a resident of Vinaypur village in the Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, was sitting on a cot outside his...
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PFI ban hits hope of jailed student leader Atikur Rahman desperate for medical care

On 27 September, at around 2:30 am, hundreds of policemen rounded up the house of jailed student leader Atikur Rahman in Riyawli Nagla of Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district. They...

Meet Manik who saved 9 lives at flash flood during Durga Puja

"I just jumped. It was an impulse, and I did not think once as to what could have happened," says Mohammad Manik who has become an internet sensation since...
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Kashmiris remain cautious about reopened cinema halls

Sadaf Shabir and Fahim Mattoo After nearly three decades, Kashmir got its three cinemas— one in Srinagar and the other two in Pulwama and shopian. It’s not the first time...

Kashmir: Locals worried after leopard kill children in border town

Syed Abbass Hussein is a wretched father whose child fell prey to a leopard on the evening of 22 September in Moli Nag, North Kashmir's Uri. Syed’s seven-year-old son,...
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“Tortured our child,” says kin of 8-year-old Muslim boy in Bihar

The 8-year-old Muslim boy and his grandfather were released on bail on 14 September, after 7 days of their arrest.

“He spent more time in jail than with me”: Wife of cab driver Alam in Hathras UAPA case

Bushra Alam, 30, has impatiently waited for a 5-minute call from her husband Mohammad Alam, 31, almost every day in the past two years. Alam, who is in Lucknow...
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Bihar: Muslims feel anxious after violence during Mahavir Akhara rally

Rizwan Ahmed is yet to visit his charred grocery shop located in Barhariya's Purani Bazaar— a Muslim-dominated locality in Bihar's Siwan district. His shop was burnt by the Hindu mob on Thursday during the Mahavir Akhara rally.

Kin, neighbours refute allegations against Delhi man arrested for terror funding

On August 18, Mohammad Yaseen, a resident of Delhi's Turkman Gate, was arrested in a joint operation by police from Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir, along with central agencies.
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Jamia Millia threatens to cancel admission of MPhil Scholar Safoora Zargar

Student activist and research scholar Safoora Zargar says that the Department of Sociology in Jamia Millia Islamia is threatening to cancel her Mphil admission in a "discriminatory" move. The 29-year-old...

“Killed for Muslim identity”: Weeks after custodial deaths of 4 men, case makes no progress

About two weeks after the mysterious deaths of four Muslim men in judicial custody at the Baruipur Central Correctional Home, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, their families still...
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