Around 80 to 90 people forced their way inside the premises, intimidating staff as they “threatened us…shouted at us” and “indulged in violence,” an employee said. A group of Hindutva activists vandalised Christmas decorations at a shopping mall in the city of Raipur in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, according to media reports, amid heightened tensions ahead...
The incident in Nalbari is among several reports of disruptions to Christmas celebrations and attacks on Christians across the country in recent days. Members of the Bajrang Dal vandalised a Christian missionary school in Assam’s Nalbari district on Wednesday, damaging Christmas decorations and posters, police said, reported Scroll.in The incident took place at St Mary’s...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India appealed to Home Minister Amit Shah to ensure strict enforcement of the law and protection for Christian communities so that Christmas could be celebrated “in an atmosphere of security and harmony”. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India on Tuesday warned of an “alarming rise in attacks” on Christians in...
In 2015, a Hindu mob lynched Mohammad Akhlaq in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri area after rumours he had slaughtered a cow. A court in Uttar Pradesh on Monday rejected a state government request to withdraw prosecution in the 2015 killing of Mohammad Akhlaq, calling the plea legally unsound, India Today reported. The Surajpur court dismissed the...
Students denied any religious conversions had taken place, and an unidentified police said there was “no evidence of forced conversion”. A Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Madhya Pradesh was filmed assaulting a visually impaired woman inside a church in Jabalpur, sparking political controversy in the state, according to media reports and video footage circulated on...
In a separate incident, Arunachal Pradesh Police arrested five residents of Kashmir on Thursday on suspicion of spying Police in Karnataka have arrested three men from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh on suspicion of passing sensitive information related to the Indian Navy to contacts in Pakistan, The Indian Express reported on Sunday. One of the accused,...
Police have also seized a sample of the meat and sent it to a laboratory in Mathura for forensic testing. Results are pending. Police in the northern Indian city of Aligarh have detained two men after a Muslim meat trader was allegedly assaulted by a group that accused him of transporting beef, officials said, reported...
Bangladesh’s Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain said he had been informed of death threats made against High Commissioner Riaz Hamidullah during the demonstration. Bangladesh has suspended consular and visa services at its High Commission in New Delhi and its Assistant High Commission in Agartala until further notice, citing heightened diplomatic tensions linked to recent unrest in...
The couple had married against the wishes of the woman’s family and had been living in Haveri district. Pregnant woman killed over inter-caste marriage in Karnataka; father among accused A 20-year-old pregnant woman was allegedly killed by her father and relatives in Karnataka’s Dharwad district on Sunday in a case linked to her inter-caste marriage,...
A mob set fire to a Christian man’s house, vandalising churches and torching a prayer hall A burial dispute in a village in the central state of Chhattisgarh escalated into violence this week, with a mob setting fire to a Christian man’s house, vandalising churches and torching a prayer hall, police and local residents said,...