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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicHate speech

Topic: Hate speech

Judging a joke: How courts are navigating free speech space in age of social media

With increasing cases of online satire, impersonation, and hate speech, courts face a dilemma: Where does right to free speech end and criminality begin?

Once booked for Babri play, now in dock for inflammatory speech—who is RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat

Bhat is a prominent Hindutva activist who runs a chain of educational institutions & heads other organisations, largely based in Dakshina Kannada district.

What SC said on free speech, satire & duty as it quashed FIR lodged against MP Pratapgarhi over a poem

Key order comes at a time when standup comedian Kunal Kamra is facing heat for taking a dig at Eknath Shinde without naming the Maharashtra deputy CM directly.

AI is a silent spectator to hate speech. It doesn’t know how to moderate regional languages

Hate speech is highly context-dependent, but anthropologist Sahana Udupa's findings revealed that the datasets powering AI algorithms are not.

Meta’s love-hate relationship with Modi govt and its politics

From controversies over its alleged role in influencing electoral processes to its purported neglect of hate speech, Meta faces a delicate balancing act in India.

Christian leaders flag community’s plight in letter to Murmu, Modi. ‘Attacked, seen as conversion agents’

In the letter, 400 Christian leaders & 30 church groups mention cases of violence against their community & call for inclusivity, look to PM to play ‘positive role in nation-building’.

55 MPs submit notice for impeaching Justice Shekhar Yadav. ‘Targeted minorities, displayed bias’

MPs submitted the notice to the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha. It alleges that prima facie, the Allahabad HC made 'outrageous, derogatory & hateful statements' in his speech.

Why BJP uses divisive ‘Ek Hain Toh Safe Hain’ instead of inclusive ‘Ek Hain Toh Mazboot Hain’

At election time, BJP rolls out its narratives of ‘Aurangzeb,’ ‘Pakistan,’ and ‘love jihad’ with machine-like precision. But like West Bengal, it won't work in Maharashtra.

Show Aadhaar card at entry: Hate speech accused Yati at large, security firmed up at Ghaziabad temple

Police are on lookout for Yati Narsinghanand, mahant of Dasna Devi temple in Ghaziabad, whose inflammatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad have sparked protests in parts of the country.

US flags concerns over ‘increasing hate speech, misuse of anti-conversion laws’ in India

At release of US report on religious freedom, Blinken points to 'concerning increase' in demolitions of minorities' homes, violence that leads to 'repression of religious communities'.

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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.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

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.