Eminent lawyer and key Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan said that communalisation of the Indian police force is a big problem and the root cause of fabricated cases against “innocent” Muslim youths. “By fabricating terror cases, the police are actually creating ground for making real terrorists from the Muslim community,” he said. He said this trend has destroyed many innocent lives across India. He was speaking at a press premier of documentary film ‘After...

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its report alleged that the authorities in Gujarat are “subverting justice, protecting perpetrators and intimidating those promoting accountability 10 years after the anti-Muslim riots that killed nearly 2,000 people”. Titled as “India: A decade on, Gujarat Justice Incomplete, Victims of Anti-Muslim Violence Cite State Government Delays, Intimidation,” alleges that the Modi government has “resisted the Supreme Court orde...

In the Samjhauta blasts case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has come to the conclusion that before the briefcase bomb was planted in the cross-border train near Dewana railway station in Panipat in February 2007, similar bombs were tested in the Bagli forest area of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh. Kamal Chauhan, recently arrested from Indore for planting a bomb in the Samjhauta Express, has disclosed to the NIA that the demonstration and training in planting of bombs (Improvised E...

Pakistani Islamic scholar Tahir-ul-Qadri’s reported remarks advising Muslims to forget the Gujarat riots have sparked a row with some Muslim organisations opposing his ongoing visit to Hyderabad. Police have stepped up security for Qadri, who arrived in Hyderabad for a five-day trip amid criticism from Jamiat-ul-Ulema and others for his remarks during a visit to Gujarat a week ago. The scholar, while addressing a meeting at Vadodara in Gujarat on Feb. 25, reportedly advised Indian Musli...

At a time when Delhi and Jharkhand Police claimed to have busted an alleged militant group by arresting two Kashmiris, the crackdown on Kashmiri youths living outside the state has also tightened.
Especially in New Delhi, Delhi Police has launched massive crackdowns and enquiries related to Kashmiri youth, certainly making it uneasy for the youths especially thousands of Kashmiri students who study in universities outside the state. A student of M.Tech, Jamia Hamdard University, Hakim Ai...

Terming the obnoxious movements in support of homosexuality as immoral and unnatural, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has vehemently condemned it and demanded from the Indian government that it should not present before the Supreme Court its views against the culture, modesty and tradition of the country.

Maulana Umari said changing the stand on homosexuality by bringing in the point of freedom of individuals is sad. He said religion and society have always p...

Anil Kumar Arora – a retired employee of Bhagat Singh College in South Delhi – was pushed to the ground after he rushed to his son’s help when the latter was being dragged to the police post by Constable Vikram Singh. The son, Mohit Arora, 32, who runs a fitness centre in east Delhi, stopped his car at Dhaula Kuan to ask the policeman where he could fill his water bottle.

“A constable (Vikram Singh) was speaking on his mobile when I asked him where I could fill...