Gujarat: Maharaja Sayajirao University expels student over painting of Hindu deities

A nine-member fact-checking committee had submitted a report on Tuesday, following which action was initiated against him.

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· May 12, 2022 · 10:25 am

University student booked in Gujarat after Hindutva outfits protest against art installation

The artwork at a Vadodara college used clippings of newspaper reports about rape to create cutouts of Hindu deities.

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· May 10, 2022 · 08:36 pm

Two arrested for killing Dalit man over his marriage to Muslim woman in Hyderabad

The woman’s relatives stabbed Billipuram Nagaraju with a knife and hit him with an iron rod on a busy road in the city’s Saroornagar area on Wednesday.

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· May 06, 2022 · 08:33 am

BJP MLA Aseem Goel seen in video taking oath to make India a Hindu nation

The oath was administered by journalist Suresh Chavhanke, who is facing trial in a hate speech case for similar actions at an event in Delhi in December.

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· May 02, 2022 · 11:35 am

BHU students accuse vice-chancellor of appeasement for attending iftar on campus

They alleged that the event was against the culture of the university and an ‘anti-Hindu initiative’.

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· Apr 29, 2022 · 11:53 am

With no surety, three Kashmiri students languish in Agra jail three weeks after bail

The students were arrested in October after BJP members accused them of shouting ‘anti-India’ slogans.

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· Apr 21, 2022 · 11:06 am

BJP trying to create a communal situation in India, says NCP chief Sharad Pawar

Opposition members want to discuss the violence and rising fuel prices at a joint meeting, he said.

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· Apr 19, 2022 · 10:48 am

Muslim man’s home set ablaze by mob in UP’s Agra over inter-faith marriage

The woman in a video said that she had married the man willingly, and requested that their families not be harassed.

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· Apr 16, 2022 · 04:48 pm

Two Muslim boys detained for listening to a Pakistani song in Uttar Pradesh

An FIR has been filed against the minors for allegedly hampering national integration.

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· Apr 15, 2022 · 04:26 pm

‘No communal issue in Karnataka’, says minister on Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s tweets on religious divide

Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that concerns about Muslims being targeted in the state were part of a narrative created by parties like the Congress.

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· Apr 15, 2022 · 11:31 am

Five detained in Jharkhand after communally sensitive video goes viral

Men can be seen wielding swords, raising saffron flags and using religious slurs against the Muslim community in the clip.

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· Apr 13, 2022 · 06:31 pm

Telangana BJP MLA booked for making provocative speech at Ram Navami procession

Raja Singh also sang a song at the rally in Hyderabad calling for India to be made a Hindu nation.

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· Apr 13, 2022 · 08:07 am