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Police report says 250,000 people had gathered at a Hindu event in Uttar Pradesh that had a capacity of 80,000About 250,000 people had gathered at the Hindu religious congregation in northern India where 121 people died in a crowd crush, triple the cap…
続きを読むMost of the dead are women or children, say officials, with suggestions a dust storm created panic as thousands were leaving a prayer meeting in Hathras, south-east of DelhiAt least 116 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in a cro…
続きを読むReport finds that religious, historical and cultural references have been removed in crackdown by BeijingHundreds of Uyghur villages and towns have been renamed by Chinese authorities to remove religious or cultural references, with many replaced by na…
続きを読むExit polls had projected overwhelming victory for the BJP and an even stronger mandate for India’s strongman India’s elections may return Narendra Modi to power for a third term but Tuesday’s results did not have the flavour of victory for the strongma…
続きを読むIndia is in the final stages of a general election, and almost one billion people are registered to vote. The country’s prime minister ,Narendra Modi, has been in power for more than 10 years, and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is s…
続きを読むExclusive: Experts say changes to Grand Mosque of Shadian mark completion of five-year sinification campaignThe last major mosque in China to have retained Islamic-style features has lost its domes and had its minarets radically modified, marking what …
続きを読むOpposition says prime minister targeting Muslim minority with ‘hate speech’ and violating election rulesIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused of hate speech during a campaign rally where he called Muslims “infiltrators” who had “many …
続きを読むA region known as ‘God’s land’ offers a glimpse of the future if Indian prime minister’s BJP party retains its powerFor centuries it has been known as the “land of the gods”. Stretching high up into the Himalayas, the Indian state of Uttarakhand is hom…
続きを読むBechan Baba has dedicated his life to Varanasi’s Anarwali mosque, where Hindus and Muslims come to pray – despite the historical disputes raging outsideIn the heart of Varanasi, where the sacred Ganges meanders by and incense smoke mingles with the fai…
続きを読むAfghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activistsThe Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international co…
続きを読むHoli is the Hindu festival of colours and is celebrated to mark the start of spring in India, Nepal, other South Asian countries and across the diaspora. Celebrants rejoice by throwing coloured powders at one another on the street.Festivities also invo…
続きを読むPolitically-inspired biopic of Indian politician who opposed Gandhi’s non-violence is hamstrung by its own lack of action Of all the hot takes you expect to see when you go to the cinema, the suggestion that Mahatma Gandhi was overrated is perhaps low …
続きを読むCitizenship amendment act grants Indian nationality to refugees who are Hindu, Christian, Parsi, Jain or Buddhist, but not MuslimThe Indian government has enacted a divisive citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims, just weeks bef…
続きを読むFar-right Hindu nationalists are giving women prominence to mobilise others, but regressive patriarchal systems are embedded in their ideologyIt all started in the family WhatsApp group. A member of my extended family posted photos and videos of firewo…
続きを読むControversy in West Bengal centres around Akbar and Sita, named for a Hindu deity, being placed in the same enclosureAn Indian Hindu nationalist organisation has launched a court petition to stop two lions named after a Hindu deity and a 16th-century M…
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