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Lawyers say pair were peacefully protesting against Indian citizenship actDelhi police have been accused of slapping two Muslim student activists with “bogus” charges of conspiring to incite the recent riots, the worst religious violence in India’s cap…
India’s shutdown is catastrophic for Muslims driven from their homes by sectarian carnage and now without food or shelterAs the wealthy quaff wine in comfort, India’s poor are thrown to the wolvesIt wasn’t possible for Mohammed Idrish to watch Narendra…
Four found guilty of attack that shocked the world were hanged in capital on Friday morningIndia has hanged four men who were convicted for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012, in a case that shocked the world and shamed the …
Allegations mount that police in Indian capital incited and aided recent mob violence and failed to help Muslim victims On one side of the marketplace, it was carnage. As the Hindu mob descended, Muslim-owned stalls selling car parts were slowly reduce…
Blame the poisonous ideology of the Hindu nationalist BJP for the blood on India’s streetsIn August 1958, gangs of white youths began systematically attacking West Indians in London’s Notting Hill, assaulting them with iron bars and meat cleavers and m…
New citizenship law triggered violent clashes between Muslims and HindusThe death toll from Delhi’s worst riots in decades has risen to 38, as a political row broke out over the transfer of a judge who criticised the police and government’s handling of…
Mohammad Zubair, a Muslim, was brutally attacked as Delhi experienced some of its worst religious riots in decades. ‘My clothes were drenched in blood,’ he said of his ordeal. Muslims and Hindus across the region have been mourning their loved ones aft…
Two dozen people have died and hundreds have been injured in India’s capital. The prime minister talks of peace and brotherhood, but he has led his country hereAs shocking as the outburst of hatred in Delhi has been, with the deadliest religious violen…
Anti-establishment AAP on course to win 62 seats after BJP played up anti-Muslim rhetoric India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has suffered a major defeat in another key state election, after failing to win over voters in Delhi with a campaign that wa…
Rape and murder of woman in 2012 shocked India and brought protesters out on to the streetsA death warrant has been issued for the four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi, which galvanised protests across …
The backlash against the Citizenship Amendment Act shows that Indians will not accept the party’s distorted vision for their countryHuge nationwide protests, involving people of various religions, professions, castes and classes, such as haven’t been s…
Police and protesters have clashed across India and six people died during standoffs on Friday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where tensions exploded between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.Thousands of protesters have been demonstrating …
Government orders ban on mobile internet as violence escalatesTurmoil has continued to escalate across India over a controversial citizenship law that is seen as discriminatory against Muslims, as tens of thousands defied bans on public assembly to tak…
Protests spread to Delhi as BJP government accused of making Muslims second-class citizens Violent clashes erupted in Delhi amid allegations a new citizenship bill discriminates against Muslims and undermines the secular foundations of India, with prot…
Police say building in Sadar Bazaar violated regulations and owner has been arrestedA fire has swept through a market in Delhi, killing at least 43 people and prompting an outpouring of grief and anger.Witnesses said the fire took hold so quickly in th…