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This week offered a tale of two starkly different Europes.In Northern Ireland, the streets burned with anti-immigrant fury following a violent knife attack in Belfast that was allegedly committed by a Sudanese refugee. Within hours, figures like far-right activist Tommy Robinson and trillionaire Elon Musk used social media to ...

A Delhi court on Friday refused to order a first information report against Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Delhi minister Kapil Mishra for his alleged involvement in the violence that broke out in the city in February 2020, Live Law reported.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwani Panwar passed the order ...

The capital of India, Delhi is no stranger to political violence. But the Delhi riots of 2020 set a new benchmark. The violence not only ended lives and livelihoods, it also transformed the city’s social and political landscape for the worse.Six years on, the Delhi riots have sharpened polarisation ...

New Delhi, India – India’s Supreme Court has granted bail to five Muslim students and activists in prison for more than five years in connection with the 2020 religious riots in the capital, New Delhi.But the top court denied bail to two high-profile scholars – Umar Khalid and Sharjeel ...

Cloudbursts. Flash floods. Landslides. Could the Char Dham highway project be making the Uttarakhand Himalayas more vulnerable? Help us investigate the true cost of this infrastructure push. Click here.A Delhi court has set aside a lower court’s order directing the police to file a first information report against Bharatiya ...

Cloudbursts. Flash floods. Landslides. Could the Char Dham highway project be making the Uttarakhand Himalayas more vulnerable? Help us investigate the true cost of this infrastructure push. Click here.The Delhi Police has alleged that the 2020 riots in the national capital were part of a coordinated “regime change operation” ...

A Pakistani court sentenced 17 PTI leaders and supporters, including ex-ministers, to 10 years in prison for their role in the May 9, 2023 riots. PTI condemned the verdict as politically motivated and aimed at silencing opposition voices Published Date - 10 September 2025, 04:21 PM ...

Delhi's High Court on Tuesday denied bail to nine individuals accused of conspiracy and of orchestrating the February 2020 riots in the Indian capital and held in custody for roughly five years without a proper trial or conviction on terror charges.  Prominent student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam were ...

File picture of Umar Khalid. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce on Tuesday (September 2, 2025) its verdict on bail pleas of activists Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and others facing prosecution in a UAPA case linked to the alleged conspiracy behind the ...

Yogi Adityanath and BJP leaders at a meeting in Aligarh on Thursday to commemorate former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh’s fourth death anniversary, which is observed as ‘Hindu Gaurav Diwas’. | Photo Credit: PTI Attacking Samajwadi Party’s PDA pitch yet again, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday ...