North India

“First, he molested me and now he has shot my father. He had come to our village. There were six-seven people. My father had no enmity against anyone. His name is Gaurav Sharma.”

Shiv Kumar, a Dalit labour-rights activist and president of the Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan, faced severe custodial torture at the hands of the Haryana Police, his father Rajbir said to Maktoob.

Saleem enrolled his three kids in Sunrise Public School in Loni, a town on the border between Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. "More than 180 children, affected by the pogrom, were selected after scrutiny for admission," says Kishwar Shahzad, Principal of the school.

Ashraf Ali, a final-year student of Bachelor’s of Arts in Foreign Language (Spanish), has been missing from the University Campus since Tuesday, 23rd February.

Dalit labour activist Nodeep Kaur was granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday in the third FIR registered against her.

Ambulances were stopped by police and Hindutva groups sieging the Muslim locality for days. Doctor Miraj at Alhind hospital speaks to Maktoob about the hostility and helplessness during the pogrom.

"This time the call will be for parliament gherao. We will announce it and then march towards Delhi. This time 40 lakh tractors will be there instead of four lakh tractors," Tikait told protesters.

Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old climate activist was granted bail by a Delhi Sessions Court on Tuesday afternoon - subject to provision of two sureties of Rs 1 lakh each in connection with the "toolkit" case.

Bharatiya Kisan Union's Haryana unit General Secretary Jastej Singh Sandhu escaped unhurt Monday after two motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire at him when he was going to meet protesting farmers...

After the Central government debarred the 700-member group of Sikh pilgrims from going to Pakistan to mark the first centenary of the Nankana Sahib massacre, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Friday sent a set of books to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah each to make them realise the importance of the massacre in the Sikh history and its role in the freedom struggle of the country.

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to three Muslim youths arrested for killing Shahid Alam who had sustained gunshot injury on 24 February 2020 during the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi and said that "it is hard to believe a communal riot used to cause death of person of their own coommunity."

Accusing the Uttar Pradesh police officials of trying to cover up the matter, relatives of two Dalit girls, who were found dead at a field in Asoha village of Unnao, demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the matter, as police said a preliminary autopsy found no injuries on the victims and didn’t mention sexual assault.