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Month July 2017

Mumbai – 5,000 turn up in Dadar to protest lynching of Muslims and Dalits #NotInMyName

Mohammed Wajihuddin| TNN |  Citizens hold up placards at Kotwal Garden in Dadar (W) on Monday evening. MUMBAI: Five days after thousands braved the rain to protest mob lynchings at Carter Road in Bandra under the “Not In My Name” campaign, around… Continue Reading →

India -Mentally disabled woman is stripped, shaved and lynched by villagers #Vaw #WTFnews #Lynchistan

Mentally disabled Otera Bibi, 42, wandered to a nearby village in West Bengal Locals thought she was ‘stealing children,’ tied her to a tractor and beat her Otera tried to protest her innocence but onlookers could not understand her Police rushed… Continue Reading →

Has India become “Lynchistan”?

RUPA SUBRAMANYA The Modi government needs to urgently revisit the opaque and draconian cattle trade rules. Photo: R. Senthil Kumar/PTI In the wake of a number of well-publicised incidents of lynching and mob violence, most of them related to issues… Continue Reading →

Every third birth in Bhopal is through C-section #WTFnews

Representative image BHOPAL: Every third child born in the state capital is through a C-section, going by department of health and family welfare data. Between April 2016 to March 2017 a total of 55,992 deliveries were reported in Bhopal of which… Continue Reading →

Ahem! Pardon Me, May I Say Something ?

— by Mirza Yawar Baig — We are living in a country that appears to have gone mad. All sane voices are being silenced. All insanity is being given free reign. Since fascists don’t read history it has no lessons for them. For… Continue Reading →

Rioting incidents rise by 30%, rape cases double under Yogi Adityanath #Vaw

 JKR Staff Incidents of rioting have gone up by a whopping 30% Uttar Pradesh under Yogi Adityanath as the chief minister. Data obtained from the police shows that there were as many as 2317 incidents of riots between 16 March… Continue Reading →

MRG report on Violence and discrimination against India’s religious minorities

Religious minorities have long been the target of a range of different forms of persecution, such as hate crimes, threats, attacks on places of worship, and forced conversion. Nevertheless, in recent years there has been rising hostility against India’s religious minorities, particularly since the current… Continue Reading →

Assam: School principal held for using morphed Modi images as WhatsApp display pic

The school principal has reportedly blamed his “fidgety” 11-year-old son, a student at a madrassa in central Assam’s Hojai district, for tampering with the display picture. Rahul Karmakar Hindustan Times, Guwahati The matter came to light when several people in… Continue Reading →

Peace Now and Forever Campaign: Pakistanis, Indians come together to demand for an end to war

SEHAR QAZI|  (SeharQazi/Catch News) TWEET THIS Amid the strikes, counter-strikes and the whole political tension between India and Pakistan, campaigns calling for peace are the need of the hour. The Peace Now and Forever Campaign, that made its mark felt… Continue Reading →

Indigenous groups launch protests to resist Canada Day

Aboriginal communities call for a day of action to draw attention to 150 years of ‘racism, genocide and colonialism’. Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath The indigenous community considers Canada Day as a celebration of genocide and colonialism [Reuters] Indigenous people across Canada are… Continue Reading →

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