Two young widows of victims of lynching began an indefinite sit-in near Raj Bhavan here on Saturday to press for a strong legislation against such crimes, accusing the state government of being apathe...

A Dalit youth was beaten to death while his friend is battling for life in a hospital after being attacked by a mob for alleged cattle theft in Bihar’s Saharsa district on Monday. The incident ...

A Muslim man was assaulted in the public and allegedly asked to chant "Jai Shri Ram" even as his minor daughter tried to save him, said police here on Thursday. A one-minute video of the in...

Two news reports appeared recently in a leading national daily. In one, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Mohan Bhagwat, waxed eloquent on India’s rich ethos of accommodation and tol...

A farm labour, Sheikh Ghishu, 36, died and his friend Sheikh Sadagar, also of the same age, had to be hospitalised after allegedly being assaulted by villagers under Ratua police station of Malda dist...

A 49-year-old man recovering from drug addiction at a rehabilitation centre here in North 24-Parganas was allegedly beaten to death on Tuesday night by a section of its officials apparently because he...

A 30-year-old youth was lynched by a group of villagers shortly after he had shot dead a 40-year-old man in West Singhbhum district about 90 km away from here on Tuesday evening.  The incident took ...

Three people were lynched on suspicion of cattle theft in Tripura’s Khowai district on Sunday morning. Police said two of the deceased were beaten up by a mob at North Maharanipur while th...

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The mother of the Bihar police officer allegedly lynched by a mob at a village in North Dinajpur died of cardiac arrest on Sunday after knowing that her son was no more. Urmila Devi, 70, had not been...