Seventeen of the 44 people lynched in the country between May 2015 and December 2018 were killed in Jharkhand, according to data collated by an NGO. The figure puts Jharkhand at the top of the heap o...

Police on Monday decided to send for forensic examination a video clip that shows a mob beating up Tabrez Ansari, who died on Saturday, and forcing him to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and “Jai Hanuman�...

A nation where people are lynched for possessing beef, and intellectuals are killed for airing their views should not call Mahatma Gandhi its father, artist Subodh Kerkar said here on Wednesday.Kerkar...

The identification of the cause is often the first step to neuter a deleterious effect. But such identification is made possible only with reliable data. The importance of the 2017 Crime in India repo...

A security guard was beaten to death by a mob which was incensed by lewd comments on women in Nadia’s Gayeshpur on Saturday night.Villagers said three security guards, Janak Sarkar, Milan Moitra and...

Actor Naseeruddin Shah on Sunday expressed solidarity with the family members of those lynched by mobs in the country. Speaking at a national convention on the theme of “state complicity in hate cri...

Eminent Kannada playwright Raghunandana on Thursday declined the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in protest against the trend of “mob lynching and violence in the name of God and religion” and the att...

Indian legislators seem to have woken up, at long last, to the need to tackle mob lynching. The wake-up call may, however, have something to do with the Supreme Court’s strongly worded indictment of...

At Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, my path is blocked by people holding placards welcoming important co-passengers. I feel a slight resentment that there is none to help me with my hand ...

Police have arrested eight persons, four of them on Monday morning, in connection with the alleged lynching of a college student on Friday night inside the Gabharu Parbat Tea Estate at Nakachari, abou...