Topic: Hate campaign

The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed petitions challenging the invitation to Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq as the chief guest for the upcoming Dasara festival in Mysuru, observing that inviting a person of a different faith does not violate anyone’s rights.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to urgently list a plea seeking a stay on the release of the film Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder, effectively allowing the screening to go ahead despite concerns raised by the petitioner.

Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vandalised a branch of the well-known Karachi Bakery in Hyderabad on Saturday, demanding that the chain of Indian retail bakeries change its name.

India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and his daughters have become targets of severe online abuse and doxxing following the announcement of a mutual ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan. 

An alarming disinformation campaign on X began by targeting Muslim students at IIT Gandhinagar, then escalated into hate and vilification of the Ambedkarite reading circle, faculty members, the HSS department, and the institute as a whole.

Amid Hindutva hate campaigns against the movie L2: Empuraan, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted searches at the film’s co-producer Gokulam Gopalan’s Gokulam Group offices in Chennai and Kozhikode as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).