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Funding for religious conversion to anti-CAA protests to rehabilitating Rohingyas: Fefdawala Haji Abdullah, accused in Bharuch conversion case

Nirwa Mehta - 17 November, 2021

Fefdawala Haji Abdullah's name has surfaced in the recent Bharuch mass conversion case of over 100 tribals. He was also named in the UP mass conversion racket and hawala funding earlier this year.

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‘There is no such thing as Hinduism’: How over 100 tribals in Bharuch were converted to Islam and the ‘business’ behind it

Nirwa Mehta - 16 November, 2021

An FIR filed in the Amod Police station in Bharuch names 9 people who are accused in running a forced religious conversion racket.

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‘Muslim mob attacked with swords, pelted stones at Hindu establishments’: Local BJP leaders on Amravati violence

OpIndia Staff - 15 November, 2021

Amravati was in throes of violence last week after protesters rioted over alleged vandalisation of mosque in Tripura

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Pakistanis abduct Hindu girls whenever they lose a cricket match to India: What Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar Hindu refugee revealed to OpIndia

रवि अग्रहरि - 11 November, 2021

Refugee from Pakistan living in Delhi's Adarsh Nagar told OpIndia that when Pak lost cricket match to India, they would abduct Hindu women

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Gujarat: Wherever Hindus are in minority, Bajrang Dal to donate loudspeakers for Hanuman Chalisa recital

Nirwa Mehta - 11 November, 2021

Certain pockets in Surat where Hindus have become a minority over the years due to demography change, Bajrang Dal has decided to assert the Hindu identity in those areas.

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Gujarat: A case about illegally constructed hotel was given communal twist just because hotel owner was Muslim

Nirwa Mehta - 27 October, 2021

A hotel, where two of the three directors are Muslims, is accused of violating margin norms in construction. However, some have given a communal twist to the protests by residents.

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Watch: Vishal Jood, who stood up to Khalistanis in Australia and was jailed for it, speaks to OpIndia

Nupur J Sharma - 21 October, 2021

On the 15th October, Vishal Jood, man from Haryana was released from prison in Australia and revealed his ordeal in an interview to OpIndia

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The pushback begins: Surat residents play Hanuman Chalisa twice a day from temples, rooftops to get close to Dharma

Nirwa Mehta - 19 October, 2021

When the Hindus have started reciting Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers, it is more of a symbolic pushback, a protest, for being treated as equal.

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‘They are not farmers, they are butchers’: After murder of Lakhbir Singh at Kundli border, Kasar sarpanch remembers how Mukesh was burnt alive

OpIndia Staff - 15 October, 2021

A badly mutilated corpse of a man, whose hands were chopped and legs cut, was suspended over a police barricade, reportedly by Nihang Sikhs for allegedly committing blasphemy.

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