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Gujarat: Five arrested for attack on foreign students over Taraweeh prayers
The Gujarat Police has arrested five persons in connection with the mob attack on international Muslim students in Gujarat University when they were offering namaz.
Three people – 22-year-old Kshitij Kamlesh Pandey,...
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“We are not safe,” foreign students say after Hindutva group attacks them for praying Taraweeh at hostel
A Hindutva mob attacked Muslim international students studying at Gujarat University, one of the public state universities in...
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When I visited Gulbarg Society
“How do you feel when your family members fall ill or catch some disease? 19 members of my family were brutally killed, my mother, my wife, my son, my brothers, my sister-in-law, my aunty, my nieces, and my nephews all of them had been slaughtered that day," says Rafiq Mansuri, a survivor of Gulberg Society massacre, part of 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide.
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Hours after bail, Mufti Salman Azhari booked under PASA, sent to jail again
Islamic scholar Mufti Salman Azhari has been granted bail in all the cases registered in Gujarat, but Junagadh Police have now booked him under the PASA Act, resulting in his detention at Vadodara Jail, according to his official social media account.
Film and TV
Right-wing groups protest screening Kashmir film at Pune National Film Archive of India
Members of the Hindutva group staged a protest on Sunday at the National Film Archive of India in...
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Congress, AAP support Gujarat Assembly resolution hailing Narendra Modi for Ram temple event
On Monday, the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party in Gujarat backed a resolution in the state Assembly, extending congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
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Public flogging of Muslim men: Supreme Court stays contempt proceedings against Gujarat cops
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the contempt of court proceedings against the four Gujarat Police officers who publicly flogged Muslim men in Kheda district in 2022.
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Gujarat: 14 school children, 2 teachers dead after boat capsizes in Vadodara
At least 14 school students and two teachers drowned after their boat capsized in the Harni Lake on the outskirts of Vadodara, Gujarat on Thursday.
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Ahmedabad: Muslim auto driver assaulted by Hindutva men over his Hindu passenger’s ‘mistake’
A Muslim Auto driver was brutally beaten by a group of Hindu nationalists in the Vasna, Gupta Nagar area of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district on 14 January.
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Gujarat: 14 booked for human trafficking in Nicaragua flight case
The Gujarat Police filed a First Investigation Report against 14 suspected immigration agents linked to a charter flight trying to take 303 Indians from the United Arab Emirates to...
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“Today is truly the New Year for me…”: Full text of Bilkis Bano’s statement
Bilkis Bano, the survivor of one of the most horrific crimes during the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, said today is "truly the New Year" for her as the 11 Hindutva men responsible for killing her family and gangraping her will soon be back behind the bars.
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Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court overrules Gujarat govt decision to grant remission to 11 convicts
Bilkis Bano's petition challenging the early release of 11 convicts who raped her and killed her family during the 2002 Gujarat genocide is valid, the Supreme Court said today.
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Gujarat: Congress’s ex-MP Virji Thummar booked for criticism against PM Modi
Congress leader and former MP Virji Thummar has been charged by Gujarat police following a complaint from a local BJP leader in Amreli district, accusing him of making "objectionable" comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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PM Modi’s “such a lesson in 2002…”: Amit Shah reiterates defense of Gujarat Muslim genocide
Prime Minister Narendra Modi taught such a lesson to rioters in Gujarat in 2002 when he was the chief minister that to date, no one has dared to cause riots again in the state, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday in an apparent remark against Muslims who witnessed a brutal genocide by Hindutva groups in 2002 in Gujarat.
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Gujarat: Dalit man asks for salary, caste-Hindu businesswoman forces him to hold her footwear in mouth
A businesswoman was booked in Gujarat’s Morbi town Thursday for allegedly forcing a Dalit youth — a former staffer in her firm — to apologise with her footwear in his mouth for demanding his salary.
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Explainer: What is behind Maratha quota protest?
The home of Nationalist Congress Party leader and Member of Legislative Assembly in Mahrashtra’s Beed, Prakash Solanke, was allegedly set on fire by the protesters demanding reservations for the...
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Maharashtra: Muslim cleric attacked during Garba despite police escort
Mohd Sharafat Khan, Imam of the Masjid Islamiya in the Trombay area of Mumbai, Maharashtra alleges that he was abused, chased and almost lynched by an enraged Hindu mob...
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