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Topic: Hate speech

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.

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.

On Camera

Bombay buildings’ modernism was driven by the middle class, not elites

Compared to the intellectual modernism of Calcutta or the climatically responsive architecture of Madras, Bombay’s modernism was visual, performative, and deeply embedded in everyday life.

Three yrs since launch, govt-backed e-commerce network ONDC is a tortoise running with the hares

Built as a novel concept to ‘democratise’ e-commerce in India, ONDC has seen limited success in specific pockets. But it’s still an emerging player in a highly competitive market.

India’s 1st-of-its-kind INS Arnala set to guard coastal waters against submarine intrusions

New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission INS Arnala, the country’s first Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), at Visakhapatnam dockyard on...

India-Pakistan terms of engagement: H-word, M-word & the Trump hyphenation

Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.