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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicCommunal violence

Topic: Communal violence

IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore staff and students write open letter to PM Modi on ‘hate speech’

Signed by more than 180 students, staff and faculty members from the two IIMs, the letter urges Modi to 'break silence on pressing issues' of alleged hate speech & vandalism.

‘Insult to Hindus’, ‘killed for being Muslim’, ‘not communal’ — in Palwal, a murder gets murky

Video shows deceased being called 'mulla', family says he was targeted by Hindu friends. Some police sources claim he insulted their religion, others say it was drug-fuelled fight.

Rioters had ‘common object’ to assault Muslims: What court said in 1st Delhi riots conviction

Convicting a man for robbing and burning a house last February, the court found that rioters had planned to attack Muslims, loot and burn their property.

Tripura mosque attacks: Ground report on what really happened during those 8 days in October

Weeks after violence in Tripura, the question whether ‘attacks’ on mosques actually occurred, how serious they were, and who the supposed perpetrators might be is still being debated.

Editors Guild of India ‘shocked’ at Tripura Police FIR against journalists, seeks fair probe

Journalists' body says the move reveals an ‘extremely disturbing trend’ of a harsh law being used for merely reporting communal violence. Here’s the full statement.

Tripura Police file FIR against 102 social media accounts in October ‘communal violence’ case

While 68 Twitter accounts have been booked, FIR also mentions 32 Facebook accounts & 2 YouTube accounts. Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act has been invoked in FIR.

Muslim group allege ‘political conspiracy’ in Tripura communal violence, claim minority targeted

Joint delegation of Muslim groups also alleged mosques were vandalised, properties owned by Muslims torched during violence and accused police of being complicit in the crime.

UAPA against 2 lawyers who accused Tripura Police of inaction in violence ‘targeting Muslims’

The lawyers conducted a fact-finding and legal assistance mission on behalf of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) after violence erupted in Tripura last month.

India shelves Bangladesh artist Rokeya Sultana’s exhibit, cites ‘anger’ over Durga Puja riots

The solo exhibition by Rokeya Sultana was to have been held in Delhi and Kolkata between 23 October and 11 December. It has been indefinitely postponed.

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows Rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.