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Topic: Hate speech

Families flee homes as communal tension grips Delhi’s Sangam Vihar — ‘just needed to save our lives’

Police are yet to find 'any solid evidence' in their probe to track culprits who dumped carcass in the locality. Local AAP MLA not happy with pace of investigation.

Delhi L-G approves prosecution of author Arundhati Roy under UAPA in 2010 hate speech case

L-G Saxena also sanctioned prosecution of former Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain in connection with alleged anti-India statements at a conference in Delhi.

BJP is no longer as rattled as it was earlier in the 2024 election campaign

Narendra Modi is a loner in political terms. He decides what he wants to do and whom he wants to appoint to high office. And nobody can predict what he is going to say and when.

Not ‘uniter vs divider’, Indian politics is ‘divider vs divider’ right now

Monumental lapses of memory are responsible for the division bells of our time. Whatever happens in the 2024 elections, we need to fix our education, media, and, of course, our political discourse, in that order.

‘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.

On Camera

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.