Police fired at alleged “cattle smugglers” in Shamli
Location: Shamli, Uttar Pradesh
Police fired at two alleged “cattle smugglers” who sustained bullet injury in legs.
11 injured as Bajrang Dal activists attack Church in Narsingi (Newstap)
By NewsTAP Bureau
HYDERABAD: At least 11 people were injured, three of them seriously, when nearly 200 assailants, allegedly associated with Bajrang Dal, attacked a Church...
How The Modi Govt Is Trying To Silence Critics In The Diaspora By Banning...
By Vijayta Lalwani
London: On a cold November morning in 2022, writer and activist Amrit Wilson picked up a letter that arrived at the doorstep of...
Testimony of John Sifton before the US House Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (Human...
Testimony of John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch
Thank you for inviting all of us to testify today about this increasingly worrying issue....
Far right leaders Suresh Chavhanke, Ranjeet Savarkar (Savarkar’s grandson) and others indulge in anti-Muslim...
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
The speeches were delivered at Swami Govinddev Giri Maharaj Amrit-Mahotsav Samman Sohla event.
Swami Govinddev Giri calls for repeating Babri in Kashi...
Telangana: Transgender person killed in mob lynching in Nizamabad (CJP)
By CJP Team
In Telangana’s Nizamabad district, a transgender person was killed in what is reported to be a mob lynching.
The incident took place on...
Bajrang Dal workers thrash Muslim youth, who proposed Hindu girl on Valentine’s Day (News9...
By Nakshab Khan
Indore: Every Valentine’s Day, there are reports of moral policing by religious groups in various parts of the country. In a similar incident,...
RSS-linked farmer outfit not in support of ‘violent’ protests, wants profitable price not MSP...
By NEELAM PANDEY
New Delhi: Terming the ongoing farmers’ protest as a ‘violent movement’, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),...
A Deeper State Vigilantism and surveillance in Modi’s Gujarat (Caravan Magazine)
By CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT
THE NOTION OF a “deep state”—which has been mostly used, in South Asia, about Pakistan—refers to a political system where power is ultimately...
Govt’s Action to Take down The Caravan’s Story ‘Gravely Infringes the Freedom of Press’:...
By The Wire Staff
New Delhi: The Press Club of India has expressed deep concerns over the government taking down The Caravan’s story, titled Screams from the Army Post, citing...
Umar Khalid Withdraws Bail Plea in Supreme Court, Citing ‘Change of Circumstances’ (The Wire)
By Sravasti Dasgupta
New Delhi: Student activist and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) scholar Umar Khalid on Wednesday (February 14) withdrew his bail plea in the Supreme...
Hair stylist held for refusing haircut to dalit (India Times)
By TNN
Salem: A hair stylist was arrested on Tuesday for refusing to give a dalit man a haircut. He was also booked under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The accused...
Three sentenced to life imprisonment for gang-rape of Dalit girl in Dharmapuri (The Hindu)
By THE HINDU BUREAU
The Fast Track court in Dharmapuri sentenced three men to life terms in prison for the gang-rape of a 15-year-old Dalit...
