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Dalit Rape Victim Dies During Abortion; Accused Arrested

Four people have been arrested for the death of a 20-year-old rape victim belonging to the Dalit community in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba region. The...

Pentecostal pastor, 2 other Christians arrested in India for handing out Bibles

By Anugrah Kumar Police in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh arrested a Pentecostal pastor and two other Christians who were handing out evangelistic booklets and...

A farmer protest in India turns deadly, leaving 9 dead and a town on...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian authorities suspended internet services and barred political leaders from entering a northern town Monday to calm tensions after nine...

Indian farmers to step up protests after nine killed in violence

Farmers in India have vowed to intensify their months-long protest against laws aimed at liberalising agriculture as tensions flare a day after nine people...

MP: Hindu mob blows up Dargah with gunpowder

By MEER FAISAL A group of Hindutva militants on Monday night set off explosives in a Dargah in the Neemuch district of Madhya Pradesh. Hazrat Bheda...

Assam CM responsible for extrajudicial killings of Bengali origin Muslims: Report

By SAHID FARIS The cops used excessive force against displaced people in Assam’s Darrang and acted without direct provocation, causing deaths of two Muslims including...

Lakhimpur violence: What does UP locking up Opposition leaders tell us about Indian democracy?

By Shoaib Daniyal For some time now, the state of Uttar Pradesh has been in the news now – for all the wrong reasons. On...

Form Groups, Show Protestors ‘Jaise Ko Taisa’, Haryana CM Tells BJP Kisan Morcha

New Delhi: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, while addressing a meeting of the BJP’s kisan morcha in Chandigarh on Sunday, October 3, told attendees...

UP: 8 Dead, Tensions High in Lakhimpur Kheri, FIR Against Minister’s Son; Priyanka, Akhilesh...

New Delhi: Four farmers were among eight persons killed and 12-15 severely injured in Tikunia village of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Sunday, October...

India’s Christians living in fear as claims of ‘forced conversions’ swirl

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen It was a stifling July afternoon when the crowd moved into the small district of Lakholi, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh,...

Is India Headed for an Anti-Muslim Genocide?

BY DEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURY  Indian leaders love to talk up Mahatma Gandhi when they travel abroad. It plays well to the popular notion of India as...

Resisting India’s structural limits on suffrage

In India, as in other parts of the world, voter suppression has always targeted oppressed communities and minorities. Independent India’s constitution included universal adult...

Chruch attacked by RSS members

"Church attacked by RSS militants in Haridwar, Uttarakhand injuring five persons including two women during a Sunday prayer meeting. One person is in critical...

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