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TopicHate speech

Topic: Hate speech

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.

Karnataka resort owners are ‘hung’ on fractured mandate & Rahul’s long walk away from Tughlak Lane

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

New collection of essays explores rise of religious majoritarianism in South Asia

Published by HarperCollins,'Politics of Hate: Religious Majoritarianism in South Asia' has been edited by Farahnaz Ispahani and will be released on 21 February on ThePrint’s Softcover.

SC on hate speech: Anchors who create divisions in society should be taken off air

Top court seeks action from NBSA against TV anchors who are 'part of problem'. Mediapersons must learn & realise that they have no right to say whatever they want, it adds.

Justice Nagarathna’s dissent in ministers’ speech case: ‘Hate speech denies right to dignity’

The judge, in her dissent, said that a statement made by a minister can be vicariously attributed to the government if it represents the view of the government as well.

On Camera

India’s aviation crisis is all about too big to tame

Nobody is safe in a market where competition is stunted and choice limited. For the industry, meaningful reform will have to start with the government itself.

South rising, west slipping: India’s export map is being redrawn, shows RBI data

Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.