The draft rolls place Tamil Nadu’s electorate at about 2.6 crore male and 2.7 crore female voters, while Gujarat’s voter base has shrunk to around 4.3 crore from 5 crore. Nearly 97.3 lakh names have been removed from Tamil Nadu’s draft electoral rolls as part of a special intensive revision, while about 73.7 lakh voters...
While a Hindutva group claims that mosques have been built on state land, Local Muslim residents rejected the allegations, saying the claims had created fear and uncertainty in the area. A Hindu group has alleged that three mosques in Himachal Pradesh’s Nerwa tehsil were constructed on government land, intensifying communal tensions and prompting concerns among...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is facing criticism from opposition parties after an incident at an official event in which he allegedly removed the hijab of a Muslim woman doctor, prompting demands for his resignation. The incident took place on Monday during a ceremony at the Chief Minister’s Office in Patna, where appointment letters were...
The top court questioned whether the High Court should have made factual findings while the matter was pending before the tribunal. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Kerala High Court order declaring that the 404.76-acre Munambam property is not waqf land and directed that status quo be maintained until January 27, Live Law reported....
Manish Sahni, president of Shiv Sena UBT in Jammu and Kashmir, issued a 15-day ultimatum to Union Territory authorities to begin deportations of the Rohingya refugees Calls by Hindutva groups for the deportation of Rohingya Muslims in Jammu city have intensified following a crackdown on undocumented migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar in several Indian states,...
Following demands from Hindutva groups, municipal authorities initially ordered the demolition of the top three floors in October 2024, later extending the order to the entire mosque in May 2025. The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed that the lower two floors of the Sanjauli Mosque remain intact, while ordering the removal of the top...
Traders say police dismissed identity documents and accused them of being foreigners for speaking Bengali Four Muslim traders from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district have been ordered to leave Odisha’s Nayagarh town within three days after being accused of being Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrants, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The men, all from Sagarpara gram panchayat...
“This is a true message of humanity,” said a local cleric, highlighting that the rescued passengers were from the Hindu community In the predawn stillness of Nilam Bazaar on Monday, a faint splash stirred Abdul Basit, the imam of Bodo Badi Jama Masjid, from his sleep. Stepping outside, he saw headlights flickering beneath the surface...
Circular promoting “patriotism and cultural pride” was issued via an official WhatsApp group before being abruptly withdrawn The Rajasthan government on Sunday scrapped an order that had directed schools to observe December 6 – the anniversary of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition – as “Shaurya Diwas”, a day of valour, officials said. The instruction, circulated...
Assam has carried out multiple eviction and demolition drives since the BJP came to power in the state in 2016, many of them in settlements predominantly inhabited by Bengali-speaking Muslims Authorities in Assam’s Nagaon district have evicted more than 1,500 Bengali-speaking Muslim families from what officials say is encroached reserved forest land, local media reported...