Assam NRC a tool to render Muslims stateless: US panel on religious freedom A federal US commission on international religious freedom has alleged that National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is a tool to “target religious minorities and to render Muslims stateless”. Observing that the final NRC list, which validates bona fide Indian citizens of Assam, has excluded 19 …
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Weekly News Roundup – November 12, 2019
Court Backs Hindus on Ayodhya, Handing Modi Victory in His Bid to Remake India India’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hindus on Saturday in a decades-old dispute over a holy site contested by Muslims, handing the prime minister and his followers a major victory in their quest to remake the country as Hindu and shift it further from …
Weekly News Roundup – November 6, 2019
US Govt Condemns Citizenship Bill and NRC: ‘Bald Attempt to Split Society’ The United States House of Representatives held a public hearing on October 22 on human rights in south Asia, whose first part saw congresspersons question their government on its position and policies in the region.… In response to tough questioning about the discriminatory character of the National …
Weekly News Roundup – October 29, 2019
Shocking! At these polling booths in Satara, no matter which button you pressed on the EVM, votes went to BJP: EC official accepts allegation While there were several incidents of EVMs malfunctioning across the state during the voting for the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections on Monday, in Satara, all votes went to the ruling BJP no matter which button …
Weekly News Roundup – October 21, 2019
Get ready for Ayodhya verdict, buy swords, not gold on Dhanteras: BJP leader A BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh asked people to buy “iron swords instead of gold jewellery and silver vessels” on Dhanteras. “The Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya issue is expected soon and we are confident that it will be in favour of the Ram temple. However, …
Weekly News Roundup – October 16, 2019
Alwar: Two men beat up Muslim couple, sexually harass woman for not chanting Ram-Ram A Muslim couple from Alwar was allegedly assaulted by two men for not chanting ‘Ram-Ram’ late on Saturday night. The couple, who was travelling to Haryana, was accosted by two youth at the Alwar bus stand when they were having dinner. The men, identified as …
Weekly News Roundup – October 8, 2019
Amnesty report: Hate crimes rose sharply the first half of 2019 Amnesty India’s hate crime tracker has recorded 181 incidents of alleged hate crimes in the first half of 2019, the steepest rise in such incidents since 2015. The count is almost double that of the same period last year, when 100 such cases were recorded. Over two-thirds of the …
Weekly News Roundup – September 30, 2019
Thousands Protested Outside UNGA in New York During Narendra Modi’s Speech Thousands of South Asians and concerned North Americans staged a rally in front of the UN headquarters as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the UN General Assembly of the United Nations on Friday. Those who gathered said they had come to oppose what they described as an undeclared …
Weekly News Roundup – September 29, 2019
India Prime Minister Modi faces Houston federal lawsuit for alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir A pair of Kashmiri citizens sued the prime minister of India in federal court Thursday ahead of his much-anticipated arrival in Houston.… The group behind the lawsuit says the annexation violated international law.… The 73-page lawsuit alleges Modi; his minister of home affairs, Amit Shah; and …
Weekly News Roundup – September 16, 2019
No One Killed Tabrez Ansari: Police Drop Murder Charges Against All 11 Accused Murder charges against those accused of lynching 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari to death have been dropped because Ansari’s post-mortem report said that he died of a cardiac arrest. NDTV reported that the police did not register a case of murder, but that of culpable homicide not amounting …