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frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Alishan Jafri
On May 7, India launched Operation Sindoor, striking nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and PoK in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people. At a briefing, Foreign Secretary Vinay Misri, flanked by two women armed forces representatives, declared the Pahalgam attack aimed to ignite communal strife.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
msn.com | Alishan Jafri |Quratulain Rehbar
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
aljazeera.com | Alishan Jafri |Quratulain Rehbar
New Delhi, India - Every morning, Mohammad*, 32, watches his 12-year-old daughter, Fatima*, waking up with the same enthusiasm - putting on her worn-out uniform, neatly braiding her hair and sprinting to the government school in New Delhi's Khajuri Khas area in the northeast, where they live with about 40 other Rohingya families in cramped rented rooms. Fatima is among a handful of Rohingya children in Khajuri Khas with access to formal education in a government school.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thewire.in | Alishan Jafri
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Alishan Jafri
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Alishan Jafri
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Alishan Jafri |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
On September 23, the government of Bangladesh protested Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in Jharkhand, where he had targeted “infiltrators” and referred to them as Bangladeshis and Rohingyas. Accusing the opposition of sheltering Bangladeshi infiltrators, he had vowed that if the BJP came to power “every infiltrator will be hanged upside down”. Shah’s comments were widely reported in Bangladesh, prompting an angry dissent note from Dhaka and a summons to the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Alishan Jafri
It won't be an exaggeration to call the silence of secular parties on these anti-Muslim hate crimes a betrayal. The euphoria of the 2024 Lok Sabha election results is over. Many perceived the BJP’s electoral decline as a breather for Indian democracy. This excitement was but natural as these results marked the end of a decade of absolute domination by Hindutva politics and the invincible cult figure of PM Modi.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Alishan Jafri
The family of the victim, Fareed alias Aurangzeb, say that the mob targeted him for being Muslim. Communal tensions ran high in Aligarh after an angry mob lynched a 35-year-old man, Mohammad Fareed alias Aurangzeb, on suspicion of theft. The victim’s family has called this a case of “mob-lynching” and alleged that Fareed was targeted after the mob ascertained his Muslim identity. In the police complaint, Mohd.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
m.thewire.in | Alishan Jafri
It has been ten days since the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) results were declared, sparking widespread public outcry with lakhs of students alleging fraud and demanding a re-examination. Over 2.3 million students had appeared for the NEET exam held on May 5. The results were supposed to be declared on June 15, but the National Testing Agency (NTA) declared them ten days earlier, along with the results of the Lok Sabha elections.
