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Thursday, February 5, 2026
TopicLove jihad

Topic: love jihad

Bareilly birthday party attack puts all friendships with Muslims on trial in India

The assumption is simple: A Hindu woman’s proximity to a Muslim man is never neutral. It always requires scrutiny, explanation, and, if necessary, punishment.

Dehradun, Bareilly, Tamil Nadu attack—Indians are turning violent. Don’t keep blaming politics

People who commit violence don’t fear the police. They know that they can harass others, attack shops or even commit murder without being apprehended.

Bajrang Dal men storm into Bareilly bday party, beat up students & cry ‘love jihad’. 2 Muslim boys fined

Two Muslim students & cafe staffer taken to police station & challaned. Later, FIR lodged against Bajrang Dal members on charges including assault, criminal intimidation.

‘Students skipping classes for love jihad in parks’: Faridabad education dept’s letter to schools

Now withdrawn, the letter was in response to a complaint on CM Window portal, says district education officer.

Uttarakhand hotels are turning away interfaith couples. Their fear—raids by ‘love jihad’ vigilantes

Hindu–Muslim couples report being refused rooms, hotels say they have 'got orders from above', while police say they have not sent any directives to hotels.

Indore market tense amid MLA son’s diktat to fire all Muslim workers in ‘bazaar ka shuddhikaran’

'Vidhayak putra' Aklavya Singh Gaur also wants all Muslim traders to vacate rented shops in the next 2 months. The trigger for this direction seems to be a recent ‘love jihad’ case.

How Uttarakhand CM Dhami is emerging as another Hindutva poster boy

From implementing the Uniform Civil Code to cracking down on 'love jihad' and the latest education bill, Uttarakhand is becoming the BJP’s new 'Hindutva laboratory'.

After ‘love, land & thook jihad’, ‘illegal’ madrasas are Dhami govt’s latest target in Uttarakhand

The government has sealed over 50 ‘illegal’ madrasas in a span of 2 weeks. Experts say it is using communal politics to take the focus away from crucial issues.

Bijainagar no longer another quaint Rajasthan town. A ‘conversion racket’ has sown communal mistrust

Cops in Rajasthan’s Bijainagar have made 10 arrests in connection with matter. Family members of accused deny allegations of Muslim boys and men forcing minor Hindu girls to convert.

Amid Bajrang Dal protests, Diljit invokes Rahat Indori: ‘Kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai’

Bajrang Dal, VHP had run a campaign against Dil-Luminati event in Indore to protest against 'sale of alcohol' and 'love jihad' at concert.

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India lived in ancient Europe as a positive ‘Other’. Ties are way older than colonialism

Stories of Indian spices, beasts, saints, and kings fired the European imagination for a thousand years. India anchored Europe’s sense of the world.

RBI policy rate decision Friday, US trade deal dashes hope of cut

Majority of 39 economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the central bank to keep its benchmark repurchase rate unchanged at 5.25%.

Trade deal sorted, India & US move on to pending defence pacts—P-8I aircraft first, engines next

Defence Acquisition Council likely to take up P-8I procurement, cleared in 2019, in third week this month. Proposed joint production of GE F414-INS6 engine also on agenda.

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.