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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicHate crime

Topic: hate crime

Report by Christian body shows sharp rise in violence against community in 2024, UP most hostile

In its report, Evangelical Fellowship of India says violent incidents rose from 601 in 2023 to 840 in 2024, including assault, church vandalism & wrongful arrests under anti-conversion law.

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Recent acts of sabotage highlight a chilling divide in society, from tech-driven attacks to crude railway disruptions. It's time to unite against this rising tide of violence.

‘They hit me, said they’d kill me’: Muslim man assaulted on train as mob asks if he’s ‘carrying beef’

72-year-old Ashraf Ali Sayyad Hussain was assaulted while on his way to Kalyan to see his daughter. Video of incident went viral. 3 people arrested Saturday were released on bail Sunday. 

Abused, throat slit but not ‘rarest of rare’ case — Why killers of Ankit Saxena got life term

A photographer by profession, Ankit was near his house in Raghubir Nagar when he was attacked fatally by parents & uncle of his Muslim girlfriend on the night of 1 February, 2018.

‘You Muslims must die!’ US boy killed after fatal stabbing as response to Israel-Hamas war

Suspect Joseph Czuba, 71, who was the landlord, also seriously wounded the boy’s mother, but she is expected to survive.

Hate in India has gone beyond control. Even Modi, RSS can’t stop it

Every Muslim-hater is not a supporter who is acting on orders from Nagpur.

All aboard the ‘hate train’ & overuse of word ‘adjourned’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Dominated by Hindus’: 2 Nagaland men attacked ‘for selling non-vegetarian food’ in Ahmedabad

The alleged attack took place in the Chanakyapuri region of Ahmedabad on Sunday night and is being investigated by the Sola police.

Mahatma Gandhi statue in Queens, New York vandalised for 2nd time in two weeks

Perpetrators completely destroyed the statue with a sledgehammer; hate crime in the city has gone up 15.7% as compared to last year.

In historic first, US Senate unanimously passes bill to make lynching a hate crime

The 'Emmett Till Antilynching Act' now awaits the final approval from President Joe Biden to be signed into law.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.