At least nine people were killed as protesters led by India’s Dalits set fire to police posts and blocked railway tracks after the Supreme Court barred the immediate arrest of people accused of discriminating against them, local media said. Four people were killed in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, where police also imposed a curfew, Indian …
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A Muslim man accused of killing a cow was beaten to death by a mob in central India, police said Sunday. Siraj Khan, a 45-year-old tailor, was attacked in the Satna district of Madhya Pradesh state, and died at the scene. Kahn’s friend Shakeel Maqbool, who was also attacked, was admitted to hospital with critical …
Muslims of India have been feeling more vulnerable and insecure in the first four months of 2018 than ever before. Recent cases of failed justice for crimes committed against them have disheartened the Muslim community. Even to outside observers, it is increasingly clear that Muslims are being ostracised and singled out and that state institutions are failing …
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A 17-year-old battled for her life May 7 after being raped, doused in kerosene and set on fire, the second such case to shake India as it battles an increase in sexual crimes. The teenager was attacked on the same day and in the same eastern state of Jharkhand as a 16-year-old who was raped and burned …
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The family of a Hindu woman allegedly thrashed her Muslim friend in Bikaner late on May 1 evening, leading to his death at a hospital a few hours later in yet another incident of communal violence in Rajasthan, and one that is reminiscent of the killing in Delhi earlier this year of a Hindu boy by the family …
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A 38-year-old cattle trader was lynched and a 65-year-old man severely injured by a mob allegedly on suspicion of cow slaughter in Hapur’s Bajhera Khurd village, 50km from Delhi-UP border, on June 18. The incident took place when chief minister Yogi Adityanath was holding a meeting with BJP MPs and MLAs in Ghaziabad and the …
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India said it had excluded more than 4 million people from a draft list of citizens in the border state of Assam who could not produce valid documents, under a controversial draft citizenship list that has sparked fears of deportation of largely Bengali-speaking Muslims. Security has been tightened across the state, which borders Bangladesh, as thousands …
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Refusing to overturn a ban on outsiders entering the Taj Mahal complex in Agra for namaz or Friday prayers, the Supreme Court has said the monument “is among the seven wonders of the world” and needs to be protected. The Supreme Court dismissed a plea challenging the Agra authority’s order debarring non-residents of the city …
An Indian MP attended parliament dressed as Adolf Hitler to protest against what he called a “broken promise” by the prime minister. This is not the first time Naramalli Sivaprasad, 67, has used costumes to register dissent. His costume choices in the past include a mythological character, a Hindu god, a spiritual guru and a …
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Authorities in India’s most populous state have changed the Muslim name of an historic city to one with Hindu overtones, local media reported. Allahabad, a city of more than one million people in northern Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, will now be known as Prayagraj, a senior official from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) told reporters on …
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