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RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION NEWS

Christmas was a day of festivity — and fear

January 02, 2026 7:11 am

No, this is not the Christmas we know. Harassing those earning a living selling Santa Claus caps on the roadside. Beating up those wearing them. Tearing down Christmas trees in malls. Ransacking decorations put up for the New Year. Threatening a congregation as they worship

From a birthday party in Bareilly, a question about 'Viksit Bharat' that should haunt us

January 02, 2026 7:09 am

Will the road to shedding the slavish Macaulay mentality and getting rid of the vestiges of a thousand years of “foreign” rule be littered with Bareilly-like incidents?

Man accuses 3 policemen of beating up 15-year-old son over his religion

September 20, 2024 2:56 am

The family has filed a complaint at the Karawal Nagar police station against the police personnel.

Devdutt Pattanaik writes: Religion and the illusion of equality

September 20, 2024 10:27 pm

The point is — it feels great to be treated as special in crowded spaces. That is why even myths of heaven and hell have levels

Express News Quiz: Kamala Harris, Kanwar Yatra & the blue screen of death

July 23, 2024 5:22 am

How well do you know this week’s headlines? Take our news quiz to find out.

In UP village where boy was beaten in class, pressure mounts on family to ‘compromise’

August 27, 2023 10:27 am

Police, meanwhile, filed an FIR against the teacher, Tripta Tyagi (60), who was seen on video telling the children to hit their classmate “hard”.

AAP does not discriminate based on caste, religion: Party MP at 2-day training camp in Gurgaon

August 04, 2022 6:00 pm

"Haryana mein sirf jaati aur dharm ke naam pe abi rajneeti ho rhi hai. Inke naam pe ladaya ja raha hai (At the moment, in Haryana, politics is being done only on the basis of caste and religion),” said Gupta, who is the party’s in-charge in Haryana.

Man held in Haryana for ‘objectionable’ video on Somnath temple

March 17, 2021 6:53 pm

According to the police, in the video that was made in 2019 and went viral Tuesday, the accused, Irshad Rashid, a cleric from Haryana, can be seen holding a phone in selfie mode while walking on the beach in Gir Somnath.

US package delivery giant to pay USD 4.9 million to settle religious discrimination lawsuit

December 24, 2018 1:39 pm

The suit was resolved by a five-year consent decree entered by Judge Margo Brodie. Under the terms of the decree, UPS will pay USD 4.9 million to a class of current and former applicants and employees identified by the EEOC.

Gujaratis behind denial of job to Muslim: SP leader

May 23, 2015 3:30 am

Parties clubbed the job denial with issues such as ‘vegetarian non-vegetarian politics’.

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