2002 Gujarat riots

Mughals in NCERT Class VIII textbook: An inaccurate retelling with a communal twist

July 17, 2025 1:28 pm

Reason cited for such changes has been to foster ‘positive citizens’. Given the state of NCERT textbooks today, this can only mean students and future citizens are being discouraged to think critically, argue logically and understand impartially

'At the root lies an anonymous fax': Gujarat HC upholds acquittals in killing of British nationals in 2002 riots

April 03, 2025 6:13 am

The court also considered that no Test Identification Parade of the accused had been carried out in the case

What PM Modi spoke about on Lex Fridman podcast: How RSS moulded him to why BJP is so successful

March 17, 2025 10:40 am

"Before 2002, Gujarat witnessed over 250 significant riots. The riots in 1969 lasted nearly six months. So there was a long history, long before I was in the picture,” Modi told the MIT researcher in the three-hour-long podcast that was released on Sunday evening.

‘Why should we teach about riots’: NCERT director on rewrite of Ayodhya dispute in textbook

June 16, 2024 10:33 pm

"Hatred, violence not subjects of teaching in school," NCERT director Dinesh Prasad Saklani said, adding that they "shouldn't be focus of textbooks."

Indira Jaising writes: By sending Bilkis Bano convicts back to jail, Supreme Court reasserts its lost power

January 09, 2024 12:24 pm

We have seen in recent times an abdication of the power of judicial review of the Supreme Court. All right-minded citizens must welcome the Court coming back to itself

2002 Gujarat riots: High court says 'not inclined' to quash FIR against Teesta Setalvad in grave digging case

January 03, 2024 1:24 am

Setalvad was charged for allegedly exhuming bodies of 2002 Gujarat riots victims and “creating media sensation” by displaying the same through electronic media.

SIT withdraws security for 2002 Gujarat riots witnesses, retd judge

December 30, 2023 8:13 am

Among those whose para-military protection was withdrawn is retired judge Jyotsana Yagnik, who convicted 32 people in the Naroda Patiya massacre case where 97 people were killed.

2002 riots: Gujarat HC tells govt not to pursue litigation against IPS ex-officer only 'for sake of pursuing'

November 09, 2023 11:32 pm

In January 2016, the CAT Ahmedabad bench had quashed a chargesheet filed against Sharma in 2011 that accused him of keeping with him crucial CDs related to the 2002 Gujarat riot cases.

HC grants bail to former top cop Sreekumar in false evidence case

August 05, 2023 1:56 am

Setalvad, Sreekumar, and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt are facing charges of forgery and criminal conspiracy, among others.

Sadiq Jamal encounter case: Gujarat HC discharges last accused

July 26, 2023 12:05 am

Sadiq (28) was killed on the intervening night of January 12-13, 2003 at Naroda near Galaxy cinema after an intelligence input forwarded by the Gujarat Police linked him allegedly to Salim Chiplun, an aide of gangsters Anees Ibrahim (Dawood's brother) and Chhota Shakeel.

Zakia Jafri, other victims visit Gulberg society over two decades after Gujarat riots

February 28, 2023 4:58 pm

Feeling unsafe, Muslim families flee Randhikpur after Bilkis Bano convicts are freed

August 23, 2022 11:43 am

On Monday, loaded tempo rickshaws were seen bringing in residents of Randhikpur into the Rahi-mabad Relief Colony. These families have decided to stay until “a decision is made” regarding the release of the convicts in Bilkis Bano case. (Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)