US panel wants India blacklisted over ‘worsened’ religious freedom
Religious freedom has deteriorated "significantly" in India under the Hindu nationalist government, a US commission has said as it again recommended targeted sanctions over...
How the bulldozer has destroyed any hope Muslims might have in India’s institutions
By Ali Khan Mahmudabad / Scroll
On April 20, almost 46 years after the Turkman Gate massacres in Delhi, bulldozers arrived in the city’s Jahangirpuri...
Yogi Adityanath orders physical verification of Madrasas
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh will undertake a physical verification of
infrastructural facilities in madrasas in Uttar Pradesh. Under the Modern Madrasa Scheme,...
7 arrested for throwing torn pages of Quran, pork at mosques in Ayodhya
Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested seven Hindu nationalists for throwing posters containing anti-Muslim remarks, torn pages of Quran, and pork outside three mosques...
Now, Hindutva groups call for economic boycott of Muslims in Khargone; BJP MP gives...
After being accused of instigating communal violence on Ram Navami between the two communities, Hindutva groups – affiliated with the ruling BJP in Khargone...
Indian activist spends third Ramadan in jail over Delhi riots
Lucknow, India – Nargis Saifi’s voice chokes as she remembers how the first Eid al-Fitr greeting, as soon as the new moon was sighted, always...
Government using laws to deprive minorities of livelihood, ex-civil servants tell prime minister
The government is using legal means to deprive minority communities of their livelihood and forcing them to accept their status as “inferior citizens”, a...
Why Guru Tegh Bahadur Is Not the Anti-Muslim Icon BJP-RSS Claims He Is
By Kusum Arora / The Wire
Jalandhar: Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on the 400th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur,...
Elgar Case: Bombay HC Rejects Gautam Navlakha’s Shift to House Arrest Plea
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday, 26 April, dismissed a plea filed by activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case,...
UP: Dalit man beaten to death by ‘upper-caste’ men
A group of people belonging to the upper caste community allegedly attacked a man from the Dalit community and his family members in Uttar...
Now, a Madrasa in Azamgarh District Falls Prey to Bulldozer Politics
By Waquar Hasan / Clarion India
NEW DLEHI – The bulldozer politics of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues to wreak havoc on Muslims. The latest victim...
After Bible in Schools Row, Karnataka Govt to Inspect Syllabus Taught in Christian Institutions
After a Bengaluru-based school made it mandatory for students to carry the bible to schools, the state government will now hold inspections at all...
