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Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the concerted effort by the Muslim rightwing in Kerala — including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and some Muslim-run websites — to ridicule, vilify, denigrate and demonise Muslims who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. It is a tragic irony that while the minority Muslim community in India is itself the target of rampant Islamophobia, the conservatives among them are hurling hate speech at the sexual minorities (minority within the minority).

It has been 3 weeks of the NREGA Dharna today - and the Ministry of rural Development (MoRD) continues to ignore workers

PUCL, Delhi, strongly deplores the notice of Delhi Police directing Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPF), New Delhi to cancel the meeting on

Under this Hindu nationalist government, established notions of scholarship and expertise have been subject to populist attacks in fields ranging from science to history

In an interview where she reveals in detail the deeply disquieting state of journalism in Kashmir and the disturbing treatment of Kashmiri journalists by the government, Anuradha Bhasin, the Executive Editor of The Kashmir Times, strongly and sharply refuted the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur