Activist Teesta Setalavad Sent to Five-Day Police Custody in Godhra Riots Case
Ahmedabad: Activist Teesta Setalavad, as well as former Gujarat director-general of police S.B. Sreekumar, have been sent to five-day police custody after being accused of...
Muslim women face 47.1% discrimination in Indian job market, reveals report
A new report by Led By Foundation raises concern as Muslim women were found to be discriminated in the Indian job-market.
The study conducted over...
Riots: I smell that same smell
By Chandrima S. Bhattacharya / Telegraph India
A little more than 20 years ago, on a bright March morning, I was standing in front of...
Teesta Setalvad Arrest: Zakia Jafri’s Case is Reminder of How the Guilty of Gujarat...
By Teesta Setalvad / The Wire
These words ring true in the ongoing Zakia Jafri case. When her criminal complaint into the Gujarat killings of...
Hindu nationalists write school textbooks; Increasing presence of RSS at curriculum committee
By Farha Shareef V and Hiba V / Maktoob Media
The Indian Express led investigation revealed that individuals involved in the restructuring of the National...
Teesta Setalvad’s arrest deeply concerning, say UN official, rights bodies and activists
A United Nations official on Saturday expressed deep concern about the arrest of human rights activist Teesta Setalvad by the Gujarat Police.
“Teesta is a...
Gujarat Police take Mumbai activist Teesta Setalvad into custody for alleged forgery
The Gujarat Police’s Anti-Terror Squad on Saturday took Mumbai activist Teesta Setalvad into custody and aim to move her to Ahmedabad, a lawyer familiar...
Gujarat riots: SC dismisses Zakia Jafri’s plea against clean chit to Modi
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea of Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) clean chit...
Ujjain: Youth arrested for enticing girl by hiding identity
Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh): A young man named Irfan, studying in a coaching class in Nagjhiri area has been arrested for enticing a fellow student to...
Dalit man says thrashed, forced to eat cow dung; case filed against five
A man from the Dalit community was allegedly forced to eat cow dung by members of an upper caste group after a fight broke...
India house demolitions: Another Israeli-style war crime against Muslims
By Ladeeda Farzana / Middle East Eye
As a Muslim born into a political climate irreparably shaken by the illegal demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992,...
Dalit Majority Village in Uttarakhand Plagued by Untouchability
By Kushal Choudhary, Govind Sharma / News Click
Uttarakhand’s Bajeti village is a paradox. Despite Dalits constituting the majority of the population, untouchability is widely prevalent...
Droupadi Murmu isn’t just symbolic. She is central to RSS-BJP’s Hindutva project
By DILIP MANDAL / The Print
Choosing Droupadi Murmu for the largely ceremonial position of India’s president is not just an act of representative symbolism,...
