North India

A judicial commission report on the 1980 Moradabad anti-Muslim riots which was presented after 40 years in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday has given a clean chit to the Hindutva organisations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bharatiya Janata Party and the local administration of wrongdoing.

Amidst heavy police presence, a resounding call for justice echoed through the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia University on Monday as students from various states united under the “Mewati Student Union” banner in solidarity to denounce the recent outbreak of violence in Haryana’s Nuh district.

While staying the demolition drive carried out by the Haryana authorities in violence-hit Nuh and Gurugram, the Punjab & Haryana High Court observed that whether the buildings belonging to a particular community in Nuh and Gurgaon are being brought down by the authorities under the guise of law and order problem and an exercise of “ethnic cleansing is being conducted by the State.”

The Rajya Sabha cleared the Delhi services Bill with 131 MPs voting in favour of it and 102 opposing it.

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday arrested a Muslim man who is WhatsApp group admin after a member made remarks about Chief Minister Adityanath.

The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Monday stayed the Haryana government’s demolition drive in Nuh.

A mahapanchayat was organised by a Hindu outfit at Tigra village in Haryana's Gurugram district on Sunday six days after violence broke out in Nuh district and surrounding areas, claiming at least six lives.

Ahead of Haryana violence, a day later, on August 1, hundreds of Muslim migrants, mostly from West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, fled from their shanties in Palra village of Sector 70A of Gurgaon after members of Bajrang Dal threatened and assaulted them while entering their area with wielded sticks, swords, and guns, saying, "If you will not leave, they will burn the slum or kill them."

Thousands of Muslims demonstrated in Jaipur on Saturday to protest against the fatal killings of three Muslim passengers and a tribal officer by Railway Protection Force (RPF) Constable Chetan Singh, a supporter of PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath, aboard a running Jaipur-Mumbai train earlier this week.

The authorities demolished scores of houses, shops and other structures of Muslims in Haryana’s Nuh district, days after the violence broke out in the state killing six people, including two home guards and a mosque imam.

Prominent Islamic scholar Maulana Umar Gautam who has been jailed under draconian anti-conversion law gets bail by Allahabad High Court on Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stop the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to survey the Gyanvapi Mosque at Varanasi