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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.

Four Muslims, including two students, were arrested from a college Garba event in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Sunday after a large group of rightwing activists allegedly barged in and went on the rampage, accusing college of promoting "love jihad".

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 government today asked the Supreme Court for permission to hand over a part of the land near the disputed temple-mosque site in Ayodhya to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas or the trust overseeing the Ram temple plan, in a move that is big on optics ahead of the national election due by May. The petition filed yesterday mostly showcases the BJP-led gove...

Subodh Kumar Singh was attacked by a mob when he and his team had gone to a village to tackle protests after cow carcasses were found in a forest. The protests had escalated after activists of rightwing group Bajrang Dal came to the area and blocked a road with a truck carrying the dead cows.

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.

Pramod Muthalik, the chief of the Karnataka-based rightwing group Sri Ram Sene, has provoked anger with a comment in defence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Hitting out at people who have accused PM Modi of keeping silent on the murder last year of journalist Gauri Lankesh, Pramod Muthalik questioned on Sunday, "why should the prime minister react...

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...

An 18-year-old was arrested on Saturday in Madhya Pradesh's Satna for allegedly setting on fire a car belonging to a group of priests who were accused by rightwing group Bajrang Dal of forcing religious conversions.

A group of carol singers and two priests were detained for hours by the police in Satna in Madhya Pradesh last evening after they were accused by the rightwing group Bajrang Dal of forcing religious conversions. Later, a car used by some carolers who went to the police to find out about the detained priests was allegedly set on fire by activists of...

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.

A Dalit family in Karnataka's Chikkamagaluru district was attacked last week allegedly by members of a right-wing group who suspected that they had eaten beef.

To defend the man accused of killing social activist Govind Pansare, a battery of 30 lawyers arrived at a court in Mumbai today.

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.

Four Muslims, including two students, were arrested from a college Garba event in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Sunday after a large group of rightwing activists allegedly barged in and went on the rampage, accusing college of promoting "love jihad".

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 government today asked the Supreme Court for permission to hand over a part of the land near the disputed temple-mosque site in Ayodhya to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas or the trust overseeing the Ram temple plan, in a move that is big on optics ahead of the national election due by May. The petition filed yesterday mostly showcases the BJP-led gove...

Subodh Kumar Singh was attacked by a mob when he and his team had gone to a village to tackle protests after cow carcasses were found in a forest. The protests had escalated after activists of rightwing group Bajrang Dal came to the area and blocked a road with a truck carrying the dead cows.

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.

Pramod Muthalik, the chief of the Karnataka-based rightwing group Sri Ram Sene, has provoked anger with a comment in defence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Hitting out at people who have accused PM Modi of keeping silent on the murder last year of journalist Gauri Lankesh, Pramod Muthalik questioned on Sunday, "why should the prime minister react...

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...

An 18-year-old was arrested on Saturday in Madhya Pradesh's Satna for allegedly setting on fire a car belonging to a group of priests who were accused by rightwing group Bajrang Dal of forcing religious conversions.

A group of carol singers and two priests were detained for hours by the police in Satna in Madhya Pradesh last evening after they were accused by the rightwing group Bajrang Dal of forcing religious conversions. Later, a car used by some carolers who went to the police to find out about the detained priests was allegedly set on fire by activists of...

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.

A Dalit family in Karnataka's Chikkamagaluru district was attacked last week allegedly by members of a right-wing group who suspected that they had eaten beef.

To defend the man accused of killing social activist Govind Pansare, a battery of 30 lawyers arrived at a court in Mumbai today.