A total of 5,500 tea tribe members on Friday took a pledge to never take the law into their own hands in an awareness programme held at Rupai tea estate in Assam’s Tinsukia district. Assam Tea Tribe...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday urged the Centre and all states to pass laws to curb lynchings, calling it a “social evil” the Narendra Modi government should have tried to stamp out and ...

Sir — The mob lynching of a migrant worker, Tabrez Ansari, near Jamshedpur has left the country in shock (“Lynch mob to victim: Chant”, June 24). It is a matter of concern that in a democratic c...

Some allegations can rankle. A report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has alleged that vigilante groups have consistently harassed and intimidated Muslims and lower ...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said the concept of lynching was “alien to Bharat” and was being used to defame the “country and the entire Hindu society”.Speaking at the annual Dussehra ce...

An umbrella outfit of many organisations, the South Asia Forum for Federation of Religion or Belief (India chapter), revealed on Saturday the findings of its fact-finding team on the September 22 mob...

The day passed without trouble in Meerut but not before the Yogi Adityanath government thought it fit to block Internet services for several hours to defuse a situation linked to a backlash against ly...

She is barely 19, was married in April and widowed a week ago, when 24-year-old welder Tabrez Ansari succumbed to injuries inflicted on him by a murderous mob on June 18 on the suspicion that he was a...

Sometimes the hard core of values exposes itself through fruity layers of palliative rhetoric. That happened in the Rajasthan assembly when the government passed the Rajasthan protection from lynching...

One more accused in the June Tabrez Ansari lynching case surrendered before police on Saturday, taking the total number of arrests to 12.Atul Mahali, 28, a resident of Dhatkidih village in Seraikela, ...