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’30 minutes of pure terror’: Reporter covering JNU violence

New Delhi:  It was a Sunday and I was relaxing at home, when all of a sudden, my phone rang. It was a call...

Pedagogy and Violence: Mapping the Everyday Politics of Hindutva

By Akanksha Mehta During my doctoral research in 2013 and 2014, my Hindu right-wing research interviewees in suburban Mumbai and Thane made me aware of...

Yogi Adityanath: ‘Muslims did no favour to India by staying here’

Muslims who chose to stay in India when it was partitioned following independence from Britain did the country "no favours", Yogi Adityanath, one of...

BJP resorts to fake ‘lonely woman’ on Twitter to drum up support for CAA

A number — earlier shared by BJP leaders like Amit Shah asking people to give missed calls to show support for the Citizenship Amendment Act — is now being shared by many Twitter accounts pretending to be bored women looking for companionship.

“We’re 80%, You’re 15%”: BJP MLA’s Warning Over Citizenship Act Protests

Somashekhar Reddy said protesters who destroy public property will be made to pay.

Karnataka BJP MLA warns Muslims: ‘We are 80%, you are 17%; don’t oppose CAA’

BENGALURU: G Somashekara Reddy, Ballari City BJP MLA and brother of tainted mining baron G Janardhana Reddy cautioned Muslims against participating in anti-Citizenship (Amendment)...

India’s Muslims tell of police brutality: BBC

Police in Uttar Pradesh state have embarked on ‘reign of terror’ against Muslims in wake of new citizenship law

Bihar Police Arrest Hindutva Activists for Killing Teenager Who Joined Anti-CAA Protest

Patna/New Delhi: In what is likely to be the first documented instance of an anti-CAA protestor falling victim to violent reprisals by Hindutva groups, the...

Pained by pack-off threat by minister

At 19, Mustafiur Rahaman has become the first Indian to be told in writing what many fear awaits them once the rewired citizenship regime...

UP police accused of stripping cleric

A bedridden Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, 66, both arms and both legs bandaged, “sobs in his sleep” and refuses to “show his face” to...

Muslim fury grows after protest deaths in Meerut, UP: Reuters

Meerut, India (Reuters) - Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke...

‘Hit on knee and in stomach’ — women narrate ‘violence’ by UP Police inside...

Lucknow: The women of Old Lucknow are petrified, shaken and furious at the lack of safety even within the four walls of their homes. Amid the...

Six million people ‘de-notified’; tribals may lose citizenship in Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: With the implementation of National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizenship (NRC), the denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of Madhya Pradesh,...

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