'Perhaps the simple truth is that she lacked the social capital necessary to receive the party’s protection – even reward – for what she did... Sunita Singh Gaur of Ramkola, Uttar Pradesh, India secured for herself a place in history when she soared to international infamy after an explicit social media summons for “Hindu brothers” to gangrape Muslim “mothers and sisters”. The jaw-dropping demand might have attracted little attention if it were not for Gaur’s role as head of the Ramkola chapter of the Mahila Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
'There is a crude certainty to this Narendra Modi victory that no amount of talk about governance, delivery or economics can hide. Search the map of India for those states where the percentage of non-Hindus approaches or crosses a majority, and you find that this is where the supposed juggernaut of Modi’s governance comes to a halt—Punjab, where the only seats the BJP won were the state’s two Hindu-dominated constituencies; Kerala; the Kashmir Valley; and a few of the states in the northeast.
'Twelve years after a blast ripped apart two coaches of the Samjhauta Express, killing 68, no one has been found guilty of the crime. On March 20, all the accused who faced trial were acquitted by a special court. That includes accused number one, Swami Aseemanand, who had already been acquitted in the Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif blast cases and who now walks free. Handing out the verdict, the special court said the National Investigation Agency had failed to establish the guilt of the accused.
'Mahesh Vikram Hegde, a well-known social medial activist and the co-founder of online news portal Postcard News has been arrested today in Karnataka on charges of spreading fake news... Postcard news runs into controversies time to time... It had earlier been charged with publishing content that incites communal hate. Mahesh Vikram Hegde has a large number of followers on Twitter which includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well.'
What is the role of Sadhvi Pragya Singh in terror attacks in Malegaon, Ajmer Sharif, Mecca Masjid and the Samjhauta Express? Find out about ATS Chief Hemant Karkare and his role in exposing Hindu terror. Listen to the stories of innocent men whose lives have been shattered by false accusations in terror crimes in Malegaon. Detailed testimonies from those who were falsely framed in the Malegaon blasts reveal a sinister conspiracy by the Hindu right-wing and the brutalisation of those who were innocent by law enforcement agencies.
'Among five other Bills, the Union Cabinet today also gave its approval to the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. However, the Centre has continued to maintain secrecy about the contents of the Bill. The Bill, which aims at amending the Citizenship Act to grant Indian nationality to six religious groups belonging to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – the Sikhs, the Hindus, the Jains, the Buddhists, the Parsis and the Christians – was passed in the Lok Sabha in the last session but expired as it couldn’t be passed in the Rajya Sabha during the session.
'When Tathagata Roy, the 73-year-old governor of Meghalaya, tweeted an appeal from a retired colonel of the Indian Army, without naming him, to “boycott everything Kashmiri”, he set off a storm, eliciting condemnation from across the political spectrum. This even prompted Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from the BJP to say that he didn’t agree with Roy. But it was not the first time the governor has made news for the wrong reasons.
'The ‘Ali Vs Bajrangbali’ speech by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, ahead of the November 28 assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, has triggered a resignation spree by Muslim leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the central Indian state. Around 20 Muslim leaders and workers have resigned from their posts and primary membership of the party in Indore, which has long been considered a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-BJP stronghold...'
'Last September, as the journalist Gauri Lankesh was returning to her home from work, a man approached her in the driveway, his face obscured by a motorcycle helmet. He fired a pistol as she ran toward her house, about 10 feet away. She collapsed before she made it inside. Autopsy reports suggested she had been shot twice in the chest and once in the back. A fourth shot had missed or misfired.
'"Keep your Ali, Bajrang Bali is enough for us," Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said, in response to senior Congress leader Kamal Nath's recent assertion that he wanted as much as 90 per cent votes from the Muslim community for his party...'
