South India
Elections 2024
Karnataka: FIRs against BJP leaders Tejasvi Surya, CT Ravi for ‘communally polarising’ voters on social media
Karnataka’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Friday notified that separate cases have been filed against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Tejasvi Surya and CT Ravi for their hate-inducing social media posts aimed at polarising voters. The cases come as 14 constituencies in the state went to poll today.
Elections 2024
Lok Sabha elections: 7 collapse and die amidst intense heat in Kerala
At least seven persons collapsed and died in different parts of Kerala after voting in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 started on Friday.
Gaza Genocide
Hyderabad University fines students Rs 1,000 each for conducting “UoH for Palestine” protest
At least six students were fined Rs 1,000 each and were warned to be cautious by the University of Hyderabad for conducting a Palestine solidarity march inside the campus on 27 October last year.
Elections 2024
In Kerala poll fray, two candidates have hate speech cases against them: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, BJP national sec Anil Antony
While the hate speeches against Muslims by BJP leaders, including its star campaigners, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, make headlines and spark outrage, in Kerala, the campaign intensifies against two BJP candidates who were previously booked in hate speech cases.
India
Eviction of ‘waqf’ encroachers: Madras HC upholds central law, declares 2010 Tamil Nadu amendment unconstitutional
The Madras High Court, in a judgement, has declared a 2010 amendment which brought waqf properties under the ambit of the Tamil Nadu Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act of 1976, unconstitutional.
India
Kerala State School Arts Festival inaugural skit portrays Muslims as terrorists
Social media users on Tuesday expressed their anger at the way an inaugural skit in Kerala State School Art Festival depicts Muslim, saying they are shocked to see the entire Muslim community being painted as “terrorists” by the organisers of the festival, Kerala left government.
India
Bengaluru businessman found dead; BJP MLA named in note
A 47-year-old businessman Pradeep S was found dead in his car with a bullet injury on Bengaluru’s outskirts on 1 January. The deceased wrote in a purported suicide note that BJP MLA Aravind Limbavali and five others had cheated him.
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Features
“Being a Muslim itself is a crime in present-day India”: Memoir of an NIA raid
“Following the ban of the organisation, I always have this intuition that a raid might soon happen at our house too. Never in my dreams, I thought that today would be the day,” Anvar said.
India
One lakh people join WPI’s Kerala conference; ‘Defeat Hindutva,’ urge SQR Ilyas, Thirumavalavan MP
Over one lakh people joined the rally in which the party workers sloganeered against Hindutva forces in the country.
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India
PFI raids: NIA arrests Muslim lawyer in Kerala under UAPA
The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has arrested an Advocate practicing in the Kerala High Court in the raids conducted by it Thursday across Kerala in the houses of dozens of Muslim leaders and activists allegedly associated with banned outfit Popular Front of India.
India
Popular Front of India: NIA conducts raids across Kerala
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out searches at 56 locations in Kerala in the Popular Front of India (PFI) conspiracy case.
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India
FIR against Pragya Thakur for genocidal speech in Karnataka
Kota Police in Karnataka’s Shivamogga Wednesday, registered a case against BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur for her genocidal speech against Muslims, based on a complaint by Shivamogga District Congress Committee President H.S. Sundaresh.
India
TN: Dalit youth kills self after attacked by cops, caste Hindus for entering upper caste locality
A 20-year-old Dalit youth belonging to the Paraiyar community died by suicide on 23 December, a day after he was tortured by Tamil Nadu Police in custody and beaten up by upper-caste Hindu mob for entering an upper caste locality.
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India
Karnataka: Church vandalised, Baby Jesus statue damaged
A church in Karnataka's Mysuru, St Mary's Church, was vandalised on Tuesday. The assailants also damaged the statue of baby Jesus at the church.
India
Karnataka accident: Father, mother of Muslim man killed by RSS among three died
Three members of a Kerala family including a couple were killed in a gruesome accident in Karnataka’s Haveri between a car and a KSRTC passenger bus on Tuesday.
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India
Islamophobic contents: Press Council of India takes action against ’Star of Mysore’
Press Council of India has censured Star of Mysore for its hateful editorial targetting the Muslim community for the spread of the pandemic. A censure effectively means Star of Mysore won't receive advertisements from the government for a period of three months.
India
Two complaints against Pragya Thakur’s genocidal speech, Police yet to file FIR
Though two complaints were filed against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pragya Thakur on Tuesday after she urged Hindus to keep weapons at home to kill Muslims, the Karnataka Police are yet to register a first information report in the case.
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