Communal Incidents Rising

A 71 year old Sikh man was brutally assaulted and spit at by two unidentified men in the US state of California, the second attack on a community member in about a week that has raised concerns over increasing incidents of hate crimes in the country.

Not quite a full month ago, before #LeggingsGate and dragging-gate and the accompanying public scorn, United Airlines chief executive Oscar Munoz put on a bow tie and ascended a stage in New York for the self-styled "Oscars of the PR world."

Investigators in Colorado arrested on Monday a man suspected of throwing a 'biblical text' inside a mosque after smashing windows and a glass door of the Islamic center and overturning furniture inside, police said.

Government has cracked down on a number of websites for spreading hatred and communal tension after the Dadri incident, resulting in a rise in the number of cyber crime cases registered, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Six more authors have decided to return their Sahitya Akademi awards as a mark of protest against rising intolerance and communal atmosphere after the death of rationalist MM Kalburgi, taking the number of such authors returning the literary honour to 16.

Haryana's Sarva Khap Jat Panchayat, which has been at the forefront of demanding reservations for Jats in government jobs, today discussed the bizarre suggestion that the marriage age for girls be lowered to curb rising incidents of rape in the state. However, no decision was taken at the meet which was held in Sonipat, about 40 kilometres from Del...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today raised alarm over the use of new tools - bulk SMS, social media, and internet - to stir an old problem - communal violence. Expressing concern over the rise of the communal violence across the country he said "the erosion in inter-community relations is something that should worry us all."

A 71 year old Sikh man was brutally assaulted and spit at by two unidentified men in the US state of California, the second attack on a community member in about a week that has raised concerns over increasing incidents of hate crimes in the country.

Not quite a full month ago, before #LeggingsGate and dragging-gate and the accompanying public scorn, United Airlines chief executive Oscar Munoz put on a bow tie and ascended a stage in New York for the self-styled "Oscars of the PR world."

Investigators in Colorado arrested on Monday a man suspected of throwing a 'biblical text' inside a mosque after smashing windows and a glass door of the Islamic center and overturning furniture inside, police said.

Government has cracked down on a number of websites for spreading hatred and communal tension after the Dadri incident, resulting in a rise in the number of cyber crime cases registered, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Six more authors have decided to return their Sahitya Akademi awards as a mark of protest against rising intolerance and communal atmosphere after the death of rationalist MM Kalburgi, taking the number of such authors returning the literary honour to 16.

Haryana's Sarva Khap Jat Panchayat, which has been at the forefront of demanding reservations for Jats in government jobs, today discussed the bizarre suggestion that the marriage age for girls be lowered to curb rising incidents of rape in the state. However, no decision was taken at the meet which was held in Sonipat, about 40 kilometres from Del...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today raised alarm over the use of new tools - bulk SMS, social media, and internet - to stir an old problem - communal violence. Expressing concern over the rise of the communal violence across the country he said "the erosion in inter-community relations is something that should worry us all."