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Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has given sanction to prosecute student activist Shehla Rashid in a 2019 sedition case related to her tweets about the Indian Army.

After nine months in jail, Kashmiri photojournalist Mohd Manan Dar was allowed to stay with his brother, Hilal Ahmad Dar, who was until then lodged in another ward of New Delhi's Tihar jail. The brothers were arrested under terror charges in October 2021 in a militancy-related case probed by National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Afeefa, Muslim girl in Karnataka who was forced to drop out of school after hijab ban in the state bagged A grade in Kannada elocution at the Kerala State School Arts Festival.

Human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, accused in the Bhima Koregaon UAPA case, who is presently in house arrest, Monday sought the permission of the Supreme Court to receive a call from his daughter living in Spain.

A Delhi court on Monday sent the six persons accused of being involved in the gruesome death of 20-year-old woman Anjali Singh in the city’s Kanjhawala area on January 1, to judicial custody for 14 days.

"The Karnataka Government has a constitutional responsibility to respond to the continuing violations of fundamental rights of young Muslim women," the Karnataka chapter of People’s Union for Civil Liberties...

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi, who addressed the year’s first session of State Legislative Assembly on Monday, skipped references to father of the Indian Constitution B. R. Ambedkar, Dravidar Kazhagam founder Periyar, former Chief Ministers K. Kamaraj and C. N. Annadurai, as well as the “Dravidian model” of government, mentioned in the 65th paragraph of the printed copy of his speech.

19-year-old student Mohammed Anikh, a Kerala student of the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, died by suicide at his house in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

There has been a significant shift of Muslim students from government to private pre-university colleges (PUC) in Karnataka's Udupi district, the epicentre of movement against Hijab ban, according The Indian Express.

The News Minute reporter Saradha U died in Chennai, a few days after she tested positive for dengue and typhoid. She was 22.

Christians in Assam have decided not to cooperate with the state police, who began a survey aiming to gather details of Christians, their churches, institutions, and religious conversions.

Two Dalit men were brutally thrashed with sticks by four upper caste Hindu men for plucking chillies from their field at Miyuni village in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj district. Ajveer (25) and Jeetu (22) suffered injuries on their face, back and legs.