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Minor Dalit girl dies by suicide after gang rape

By HT Correspondent MEERUT A 16-year-old Dalit girl died by suicide hours after she was raped by four teenagers in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, police officials...

Anti-India clashes erupt after troops kill 3 Kashmir rebels

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Anti-India clashes erupted between government forces and residents of a village in disputed Kashmir on Friday following a gunbattle in...

These two elections might alter how India’s citizenship law is applied

By SUVOJIT BAGCHI India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party’s reluctance to implement a controversial law for speedy processing of citizenship to non-Muslims has irked the Hindu...

Anti-CAA protests roil India

New Delhi (CNN): Deadly protests erupted across India Sunday over a controversial citizenship bill that critics fear could further marginalize the country's minority Muslim...

Three Gujarat cops accused in Ishrat encounter case discharged by CBI court

With the proceedings against the three dropped, the trial has practically come to an end, unless the CBI appeals against the same. A special CBI...

NRC in Assam: Further agony in store for those rejected

By Sridhar Acharyulu The Centre is directing the Assam government to issue ‘rejection’ slips to people excluded from the ‘final’ list of National Register of...

Delhi Riots: Son Languishing in Jail for Over a Year, Mother Forced to Beg...

By Tarique Anwar, Mukund Jha New Delhi: With her son (22-year-old Shahabuddin, the sole bread winner of his family) languishing in Delhi’s Mandoli Jail for over a...

Narendra Modi is everything apart from what he seems

By Andrew Adonis You don’t get to lead a democracy, let alone get re-elected by a landslide, without a mandate to save your country. What...

‘Mini-Pakistan’: Closer to Poll Date, BJP’s Nandigram Campaign Turns Openly Anti-Muslim

By Himadri Ghosh Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate’s speeches in Nandigram – the epicentre of the fight for the West Bengal assembly – has come...

Freedom Of Religion and Christian Minorities in India

In the recently released report, Freedom House downgraded India from free to partly free due to the atmosphere of intolerance, treatment of journalists, protestors...

Interview: Audrey Truschke on Sanskrit histories of the Mughal era and Hindutva trolls

The author of ‘The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts’ speaks about the most recent controversy, historical misreadings and more. Audrey Truschke’s first...

2013 Muzaffarnagar Riots: Court Allows To Withdraw Case Against 12 BJP Leaders

Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh): A local court allowed to withdraw a case of inciting violence against 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Uttar Pradesh...

2013 Muzaffarnagar Riots: Court Allows To Withdraw Case Against 12 BJP Leaders

At least 62 people were killed and more than 50,000 displaced in the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar and its neighbouring districts in 2013. Muzaffarnagar (Uttar...

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