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Topic: lynchings

1984 no excuse for beadbi killings. Uphold Guru Granth Sahib values, not just physical form

Lynching the accused is not something ordinary Sikhs I know can make peace with. The prevailing sentiment remains that the offenders be punished according to the law.

Pakistani police served accused before a lynch mob. Now Imran Khan saying ‘zero tolerance’

Opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif has condemned the Khanewal incident and said that reversal of extremism in society should be a national issue.

Another man killed in Punjab for ‘sacrilege bid’, hours after Golden Temple lynching

The killing took place at Gurdwara Nijampur Mod on Kapurthala-Subhanpur road amid an altercation between police and a crowd that refused to hand over the culprit, police said.

The joke that is Earth day and hand sanitisers instead of food for poor

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

Why NCRB collected data on lynching, cow slaughter & hate crime, but left it out of report

The NCRB, whose reports provide an estimate of the crime situation in India, released its much-delayed report for 2017 Monday. 

We can’t talk about Gandhi if we don’t speak up on Kashmir and lynchings

Gandhi was no doubt a pacifist, but not at the cost of suffering injustice. His sensibilities, his techniques, his message were informed by a distinctly modern outlook.

YK Alagh on ‘real’ rural distress, Mahesh Vyas on why unemployment highest in 33 months

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

As lynchings increase, Modi govt dawdles on central law that SC wanted a year ago

The Supreme Court had urged Parliament to enact a law to deal with the rise in lynching cases, but there has been little movement in this direction.

Communal violence in the time of Modi has a distinct shade. Here’s why

With targeted hate crimes on the rise, an atmosphere of fear has become ubiquitous among India's minorities. 

Those who lynch can’t call themselves nationalists: Venkaiah Naidu

The Vice President said that nationalism doesn't involve discriminating others on any basis and highlighted the need for societal change. 

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.