By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A progressive Hindu group has expressed dismay and sadness over the arrest of a group of interfaith activists by the Uttar Pradesh police. “Faisal Khan has been working tirelessly over years for the cause of inter-religion peace and harmony,” says a statement from theContinue Reading
New Delhi: The gangrape and torture of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh that led to her death has triggered nationwide outrage. The 19-year-old woman died September 29, two weeks after she was allegedly gang-raped and strangled by upper caste men in the northern Indian state’s Hathras district. District PoliceContinue Reading
Lucknow, June 18, 2020: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is planning to make available the locally-made Gauri-Ganesh idols in the markets in place of the Chinese-made on the occasion of Diwali this year. To realise the Chief Minister’s wish, the state’s Mati Kala Board has started working. Sculptors fromContinue Reading
Mau, June 2, 2020: A Christian pastor was beaten by alleged radical Hindu nationalists in the Mau district of Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Pastor Dinesh Kumar was returning from a prayer meeting on May 26 when he was attacked. He remains unconscious in a hospital. Police await Pastor Kumar toContinue Reading
Lucknow, May 16, 2020: At least 24 migrant laborers were killed and more than 30 wounded on May 16 when trucks that carried them collided in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The accident occurred at around 3 am in Auraiya district, about 200 km from the state’s capitalContinue Reading
Lucknow, March 6, 2020: The Uttar Pradesh government has put up hoardings in prominent intersections in state capital Lucknow, with names, addresses and photos of some of those accused of violence during protests against the citizenship law in Lucknow in December last year. The people named on the hoardings haveContinue Reading
Mirzapur, September 2, 2019: The government of Uttar Pradesh has filed a case against journalist who shot a video of students of a school eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal. In its complaint, the Block Education Office of eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district has accused the journalist, PawanContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Jaunpur, a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has witnessed “aggressive onslaught” on Christians from Hindu fundamental groups, says the Indian unit of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an advocacy group. “In September the district has witnessed 12 incidents of violence againstContinue Reading
It is time all forms of religious processions bannedContinue Reading
An urgent measure to be adopted should be the immediate implementation of rules concerning garbage segregationContinue Reading