-NDTV.com Data from a second RTI request showed that 88 per cent of the 1.54 lakh people, or 1.35 lakh individuals, who fled the Valley since 1990 - were Kashmiri Pandits Chandigarh: Terrorists in Kashmir killed 1,724 people - of whom 89 were Kashmiri Pandits and the rest were "people of other faiths", including Muslims - over the past 31 years, the Srinagar district Police HQ said last month in response to...
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Two years of CAA: For many protestors, the fight has shifted from the streets to the courts -Aishwarya Iyer
-Scroll.in Most of the prominent faces of the December 2019 protests battle police cases. These days, 24-year-old Sharjeel Usmani spends most of his time travelling from one Aligarh court to another for hazri, attendance. There are four cases against the Aligarh Muslim University student, all of them connected to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by Parliament on December 11, 2019. As the law was passed, protests erupted across the country and...
More »In Gurugram, the number of namaz sites has shrunk to 20 from over 100 in three years -Aishwarya Iyer
-Scroll.in Now, open spaces for Friday prayers could disappear altogether. On November 24, Hindu residents of Gurugram’s Khandsa village sent the district deputy commissioner a letter. A field where the local children play cricket, they complained, was being used by Muslim worshippers for Friday prayers. On November 19, the letter claimed, children who had gone there to play had been told rudely to clear the grounds. “There is fear in the minds...
More »Forced eviction a design to target Bengali speaking Muslims by projecting them “encroachers”: Enquiry report -Mahibul Hoque
-TwoCircles.net Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government in Assam in 2016, the state has witnessed a spree of evictions uprooting thousands of people. The forced eviction drive became rampant after Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge as chief minister in 2021. GUWAHATI: The forced eviction drive of Bengali speaking Muslims in Assam by the state government was aimed at serving “vested interest with ulterior motives” against the people who were...
More »33% Muslims, 20% Dalits & Adivasis ‘faced discrimination at hospitals’, Oxfam survey finds -Mohana Basu
-ThePrint.in According to the Oxfam survey, 9% of respondents said they had to lose a day’s wage to get themselves vaccinated against Covid-19. New Delhi: At least one-third of Muslims and over 20 per cent Dalits and Adivasis said they have been discriminated on the grounds of religion, caste, or because of illness in a hospital or by a healthcare professional, according to a survey by Oxfam India. The survey — titled ‘Securing...
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