18-Apr-2024 Ram Navami Celebrations 2024: Calls for mosque desecration, sword displays, and provocative slogans ignite tensions Incendiary rhetoric and symbolic gestures raise concerns amid religious processions
18-Apr-2024 Religious tensions escalate as mob assaults Christian school in Telangana, principal targeted and forced to wear tilak Mob attacks Christian school in Telangana over dress code dispute; case filed against authorities
16-Apr-2024 Calcutta & Bombay High Courts allow Ram Navami processions, direct organisers, police to ensure no display of arms or DJs, no breach of law and order Bombay HC also expressed its displeasure over the hate speech delivered by Nitesh Rane in January
16-Apr-2024 Allahabad High Court quashes FIR against couple accused of ‘conversion’ accusations, upholds freedom of choice The petitioners, who married under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, faced charges under IPC and state anti-conversion laws
12-Apr-2024 CJP lodges additional police complaints against Nitesh Rane and Ashwini Upadhyay for hate speeches Incendiary remarks by Nitesh Rane and Ashwini Upadhyay span multiple locations in Maharashtra
10-Apr-2024 Several instances of hate speech in March and April mar the election cycle, demonise religious minorities before the polls In the run up to the elections we witnessed numerous incidents of hate speeches delivered across the country
09-Apr-2024 4 years onward, activist Gulfisha Fatima remains behind bars Fatima, and a series of activists and scholars, have been incarcerated as an undertrial, awaiting justice for four years today
09-Apr-2024 Ramzan shadowed by targeted violence: lynching, assaults, and harassment taint the holy month in India Before the month began, an RSS leader sparked controversy, urging Hindus and Muslims to break their fast with cow milk, citing shared ancestry
05-Apr-2024 Legal Quagmire: Examining the inconsistent adoption rulings for Muslim families in India Inconsistent jurisprudence related to adoption for Muslim couples renders parents and the young rudderless
04-Apr-2024 Mosque clerics welcome people from across religion and caste to Jama Masjid Al Shams this Ramzan Muzaffar Hussain, a former legislator and managing trustee of the mosque in Mira Road extended the invitation for all, to unite people of different religions
04-Apr-2024 CJP continues to fight against hate, submits police complaints in 7 instances of hate speech delivered by leaders in Maharashtra since January 2024 Complaint urges police to invoke stringent hate speech provisions, including IPC Section 153A, against repeated communal speeches delivered by Kajal Hindustani, Raja Singh, and Nitesh Rane
03-Apr-2024 Recent surge in anti-Dalit violence: Three attacks, two against minors, one against elderly woman Three concerning incidents of violence against Dalits have been reported in the past few days from the state of Uttar Pradesh
03-Apr-2024 As elections arrive closer, how much will Adivasi (indigenous people)’s rights matter? As constituencies in 20 states go to polls on April 19, in Phase 1 of the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, have political parties included forest rights and rights of Adivasi communities in their manifestos and election campaign?
02-Apr-2024 Chennai: 4 decades old tradition of Hindus serving Iftar meals to Muslims during Ramzan continues even today As a testament of the philosophy of religious unity, a temple honouring the teachings of Sufi saint Shahenshah Baba Nebhraj Sahib by preparing Iftar meals for 1200 Muslims
28-Mar-2024 Zee News Debate show communalises Budaun double murder case, CJP sends complaint On March 19, a salon owner, who happened to be Muslim, reportedly killed two minor boys who were brothers and belonged to the majority Hindu community; difference in faiths of the accused and victim gave an opportunity to mainstream media to communalise the issue
28-Mar-2024 Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk announces march to the border on April 7, ends 21 day hunger strike on March 26 Ladakh, India’s highest plateau at 9,800 feet is an ecologically fragile region and has seen protests for months against industrial development, demands for statehood and inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution; when talks with the union home ministry failed, the hunger strike was launched