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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

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.