Hindu Rightwing

Union Minister Smriti Irani has called the Congress in Karnataka a "Hindu hater" party after it announced it will ban the rightwing group Bajrang Dal and others like the Popular Front of India (PFI) if it comes to power in the southern state.

Large gatherings have been banned near a mosque in Karnataka's Mangaluru amid protests by a rightwing Hindu group that claims that remains of a temple were found during its partial demolition.

As the BJP-led government in Haryana prepares to table legislation to check "love jihad", key ally and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala is not entirely on board and he has made it clear. In an interview to NDTV, he says he does not agree with the term "love jihad", used by the rightwing to describe what they call a ruse by Muslim men to reel...

The Delhi Police have tightened security at south Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, where people have set up tents and dug in for over two months to protest against the controversial citizenship law. The police's move came after a rightwing group Hindu Sena said it would hold a march to Shaheen Bagh, only to be called off later.

The Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case is hunting for at least five more people. The SIT insists the leadership of Hindu rightwing outfit Sanatan Sanstha was aware of the activities of its "foot soldiers" in the killing of some rationalists

A 25-year-old Muslim man was assaulted by a group of rightwing activists at a court in Ghaziabad where he had gone to marry a Hindu woman.

On December 6, a viral video on social media shook the country. In the town of Rajsamand in Rajasthan, 37-year-old Shambhulal Regar was seen hacking to death and burning Afrazul, 45, a migrant labourer from West Bengal. A few hours later, Regar published a video with his 13-year-old daughter by his side, justifying his horrific crime as revenge for...

In a stomach-turning video that is viral, a man in Rajasthan hacks another man to death and burns the body while keeping up an inflammatory communal rant against "love jihad", the term used by rightwing groups who accuse Muslim men of drawing Hindu women into relationships and converting them.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence on the murder a month ago of journalist Gauri Lankesh is why noted southern actor Prakash Raj says he wants to return his five national awards.

A senior journalist who was allegedly going to be the next target of activist Govind Pansare's alleged killer has said he had always known about the threats.

The police in Karnataka will investigate whether the killing of scholar MM Kalburgi on Sunday is linked to the murders of activists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.

Amid anger over the killing of renowned scholar MM Kalburgi in Karnataka on Sunday, a prominent Hindu rightwing group has denied threatening him.

An interim report says that rightwing Hindu groups - the Bajrang Dal, Sri Rama Sene and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) - are to blame for 2008's Mangalore church attacks.

Union Minister Smriti Irani has called the Congress in Karnataka a "Hindu hater" party after it announced it will ban the rightwing group Bajrang Dal and others like the Popular Front of India (PFI) if it comes to power in the southern state.

Large gatherings have been banned near a mosque in Karnataka's Mangaluru amid protests by a rightwing Hindu group that claims that remains of a temple were found during its partial demolition.

As the BJP-led government in Haryana prepares to table legislation to check "love jihad", key ally and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala is not entirely on board and he has made it clear. In an interview to NDTV, he says he does not agree with the term "love jihad", used by the rightwing to describe what they call a ruse by Muslim men to reel...

The Delhi Police have tightened security at south Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, where people have set up tents and dug in for over two months to protest against the controversial citizenship law. The police's move came after a rightwing group Hindu Sena said it would hold a march to Shaheen Bagh, only to be called off later.

The Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case is hunting for at least five more people. The SIT insists the leadership of Hindu rightwing outfit Sanatan Sanstha was aware of the activities of its "foot soldiers" in the killing of some rationalists

A 25-year-old Muslim man was assaulted by a group of rightwing activists at a court in Ghaziabad where he had gone to marry a Hindu woman.

On December 6, a viral video on social media shook the country. In the town of Rajsamand in Rajasthan, 37-year-old Shambhulal Regar was seen hacking to death and burning Afrazul, 45, a migrant labourer from West Bengal. A few hours later, Regar published a video with his 13-year-old daughter by his side, justifying his horrific crime as revenge for...

In a stomach-turning video that is viral, a man in Rajasthan hacks another man to death and burns the body while keeping up an inflammatory communal rant against "love jihad", the term used by rightwing groups who accuse Muslim men of drawing Hindu women into relationships and converting them.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence on the murder a month ago of journalist Gauri Lankesh is why noted southern actor Prakash Raj says he wants to return his five national awards.

A senior journalist who was allegedly going to be the next target of activist Govind Pansare's alleged killer has said he had always known about the threats.

The police in Karnataka will investigate whether the killing of scholar MM Kalburgi on Sunday is linked to the murders of activists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.

Amid anger over the killing of renowned scholar MM Kalburgi in Karnataka on Sunday, a prominent Hindu rightwing group has denied threatening him.

An interim report says that rightwing Hindu groups - the Bajrang Dal, Sri Rama Sene and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) - are to blame for 2008's Mangalore church attacks.