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Topic: Hate speech

‘Will operationalise NATGRID database & counter-terrorism body NCTC within 1 yr’ — Congress manifesto

The country’s principal opposition party also signalled that probe agencies would be brought under the oversight of Parliament or the state legislatures.

Anti-Muslim hate speech on rise in India, Israel-Gaza war played key role — US research group

India Hate Lab's report, released Monday, documented 668 hate speech incidents targeting Muslims in 2023, 413 of which occurred in second half of the year, 75% in BJP-ruled states.

Gujarat Police arrest Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari from Mumbai over hate speech

After Azhari's detention in Mumbai, the police resorted to a mild lathi-charge as hundreds of supporters gathered outside the Ghatkopar police station, demanding his immediate release.

BJP leader calls Masjid-gurdwara growth ‘problematic’, says ‘meant Masjid-madrasa’ as SGPC condemns

Protests broke out soon after Sandeep Dayma's statement at rally in Rajasthan's Tijara. Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee says speaking against mosques 'equally condemnable'.

Hate speech against Muslims concentrated around elections in India, finds Hindutva Watch report

There were 255 documented incidents of hate speech gatherings targeting Muslims in the first half of 2023, the report found. There was no comparative data for prior years.

Canada, hate speech and education as business — everything that is troubling ‘New India’

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

Why Rahul Gandhi is a threat to Modi-BJP now than he was ever before

It is nobody’s case that Rahul is now a great orator. Or a master politician. But it is hard to dispute that he tore into the Modi government in Parliament with intelligence and vigour.

Azam Khan ‘exploring legal remedy’ for disqualification as MLA after ‘hate speech’ acquittal

Additional sessions judge (MP/MLA court) Amit Veer Singh Wednesday called 2022 judgment of lower court convicting Azam Khan in 2019 hate speech case 'illegal'.

SC orders all states & UTs to act against hate speech suo motu, warns of contempt if directions not followed

Bench of justices KM Joseph & BV Nagarathna extends 2022 order directing Delhi, Uttarakhand & UP to act on hate speech, says action should be taken regardless of accused's religion.

People accustomed to seeing every problem through lens of religion, says Urdu press on hate speech 

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.