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Removing Mughals from textbooks ‘nonsense’, Indian historian Romila Thapar

Kozhikode: Eminent Indian historian Romila Thapar has termed the removal of entire dynasties such as the Mughals from school textbooks as “nonsense,” stressing that history…

UN flags discrimination against Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam

Geneva: The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has voiced grave concern over the treatment of Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam, pointing…

BJP wants to control judiciary: Congress on Sambhal Judge transfer row

New Delhi: Congress Media In-charge Pawan Khera has raised the issue of Judge Vibhanshu Sudheer’s transfer from the post of Sambhal Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM)…

HCs ‘primary sentinel’, must be more proactive, alert to systematic failures in rule of law: CJI

Mumbai: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said that high courts need to be more proactive and alert to systematic failures in the rule…

Bengal migrant killed in Andhra Pradesh; another found dead in Tamil Nadu

Amaravati: Two Muslim migrant workers from West Bengal have been found dead in separate incidents, with both families saying that they were killed as part…

Hindutva figures incite hate and violence against Muslims, Christians at UP right-wing event

Lucknow: In yet more instance of rising hate speech in Modi’s India, prominent Hindutva figures made inflammatory remarks targeting Muslims and Christians, including calls for…

Hindutva mob brutalizes Christian Pastor, forces him to eat cow dung in Odisha

Bhubaneswar, January 23 (KMS): A Christian pastor in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district was brutally assaulted, publicly humiliated and forced to consume cow dung by a Hindutva…

International conference held in Azerbaijan against genocide of minorities in India

Baku: An international conference was held in Azerbaijan against the genocide of minorities in India. According to Kashmir Media Service, the participants of the first…

Indian forces kill 16 people in Jharkhand

New Delhi: Indian forces killed sixteen people, including a top leader of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, in Jharkhand state of India. According to Kashmir…

Family of lynched Muslim vendor says he died as police denied private hospital treatment

Nalanda/Nawada, (Bihar): As one and a half months passed, the family of late Athar Hussain has many questions unanswered and one among them is –…