With up to 100,000 Hindu nationalists set to descend on the Indian city of Ayodhya on November 25, some Muslim families are preparing to skip town rather than risk the potential for communal violence. Muslim leaders say they fear a repeat of the scenes of 1992, when a violent Hindu mob tore down a centuries-old mosque in …
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The Centre has given consent to the renaming of at least 25 towns and villages across India in the past one year and among the pending proposals is one for the state of West Bengal, according to officials. Allahabad and Faizabad are the latest additions to the growing list of places that have been renamed. …
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Muslims will no longer be able to perform prayers at the mosque located inside the compound of India’s national landmark Taj Mahal, except on Fridays when the mosque is only open to locals, due to a decision by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) reported on November 5. According to the Times of India daily, …
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The Uttar Pradesh Police has asked companies and offices located in industrial hub of Noida to ensure that their employees don’t offer namaz in open public spaces, including parks. According to a notice issued by the Sector 58 police station, companies located in the industrial area will be held responsible, if Muslim employees are found …
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Only 7% of the “cow meat” samples seized from 2014 to 2017 by authorities in various states and sent for DNA test were found to be of cows, the rest 93% were actually of bulls or baffaloes, a yet to be published report by the National Research Centre on Meat said. Out of the 112 …
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Indian police on January 3 took a Rohingya Muslim family of five to the border by bus, readying to deport them to neighbouring Myanmar as the second such group expelled in four months during a crackdown on illegal immigrants. India’s Hindu nationalist government regards the Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk. It has ordered …
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A top official at an Indian state-run university urged his students to “murder” fellow students if confronted instead of complaining to him, amid a wave of violence being reported from across the state where the school is based. “If you’re a student of this University, never come crying to me,” said Raja Ram Yadav, vice-chancellor …
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One of the Catholic Church’s most senior cardinals has admitted that he could have better handled sexual abuse allegations that were brought to him. Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai is one of four men organising a major Vatican conference on child abuse this week. We found two separate cases where the cardinal, who is …
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Cow vigilante crimes in India have been ignored or covered up by the authorities, according to a new report. Between May 2015 and December 2018, 44 people suspected of killing or transporting cows for slaughter, or even just eating beef, were killed in vigilante attacks, according to Human Rights Watch. That number included 36 Muslims. Human …
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India has warned against rising communal tensions across the country as Kashmiris living outside their state faced property evictions, job suspensions and attacks on social media after a suicide bomber killed 44 policemen in the region. The car bomb attack on a security convoy on Feb. 14, claimed by Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad and …
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