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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has governed Kashmir with an iron fist in recent years

On April 30, the Nainital police learnt of about the alleged sexual abuse of a minor girl, following tension spread in the hill city. As news of the victim’s medical examination spread, some Hindu organisations started protesting outside the police station. Gradually this protest turned violent.

Tens of thousands of devotees throng narrow lanes leading to Hindu temple in the coastal state, causing a deadly crush.

In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency…

Hindu mob vandalises shops and eateries and thrashes their Muslim owners in Nainital

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades Hindus by birth

The Associated Press has collected some of the first witness accounts of the massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that left 26 people dead

Wave of incendiary music tracks fueling Islamophobic hate floods Indian social media after April 22 killings.

Pressure grows on Modi and his Hindu nationalist government to mount a military response

Check out the previous instalments published under this series here.

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by diplomatic and foreign affairs expert Manoj Joshi.