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TopicReligious conversion

Topic: Religious conversion

1956 Niyogi panel and Meenakshipuram 1981: Defining moments of religious conversions debate

The Niyogi committee was set up by Congress govt in Madhya Pradesh after several complaints of conversion of tribal Hindus to Christianity came up.

Delhi Bar council suspends lawyer’s license for using chamber for ‘religious conversion’

The council Monday issued a show-cause notice to lawyer Iqbal Malik for allegedly forcibly converting a Hindu girl to Islam and performing nikah from his chamber in Karkardooma courts.

SC rejects petition seeking SIT probe into ‘forceful conversion’ in Haryana’s Nuh

The plea alleged the liberty & religious rights of Hindus in Nuh are being eroded by the minority community. The apex court said it can't entertain a plea based on newspaper reports.

SC rejects plea for directions to curb forced religious conversions, black magic

An apex court bench said there is no reason why a person above 18 can't be allowed to choose their religion and refused to grant permission to a representation to the law commission.

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Hemant Soren’s divide-and-rule Adivasi politics at Harvard is against Birsa Munda’s vision

Jharkhand CM Soren may have played into the hands of modern-day missionaries or possibly acted at the behest of the conversion bogey.

Yes, Constitution makers strongly debated conversion. But here’s what UP’s new law misses

Even while drafting India’s Constitution, members across political parties were concerned about the spectre of mass conversions in colonial India.

Couple moves court for protection, becomes first to be booked under Uttarakhand’s religion law

Two months after Uttarakhand HC ordered an inquiry, the couple, a relative and the qazi are booked for religious conversion of the woman without following norms of 2018 Act.

MP cabinet approves ordinance on bill against religious conversion

Violating the Freedom of Religion Bill will attract a jail term of up to 10 years, which includes conversions for the sake of marriage.

About 35 arrests, dozen FIRs in first month of Uttar Pradesh’s unlawful conversion law

The Uttar Pradesh police have made more than one arrest a day under the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, which came into effect on 27 November.

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BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

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Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.