India
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A crowd gathered to listen to the famous preacher Bhole Baba in a village in the Hatras district of Uttar Pradesh, India. As a result, at least 116 people died. The government announced that the number of victims may increase. Witnesses said that the crowd was trying to get closer to the priest and take his hokipoi.
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Former Israeli Ambassador Daniel Carmon reminded India of its debt to the Zionists. Carmon said that during the 1999 India-Pakistan war, Israel was one of the few countries to use Indians. Now it's time to repay their debt. Notably, Karmon's statement came against the backdrop of India supplying drones and artillery shells to the occupiers to kill innocent Palestinians in Gaza.
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In the parliamentary elections in India, which lasted from April 19 to June 1, 24 deputies were elected from the country's 183 million Muslim population. Their number decreased by 2 compared to the previous elections.
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Columbia Law Review website shut down after article critical of Israel. The website of the 123-year-old Columbia Law Review magazine in the USA was closed due to the article written by Palestinian Rabea Egbaria, a graduate student of the Harvard Law Faculty, accusing Israel of genocide. The article's author noted that the site's shutdown should be seen as "a small part of the larger authoritarian crackdown on college campuses across the United States."
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the 202 million Muslims living in the country "spies" and called not to divide the "wealth of the nation" among them. The opposition accused him of "inciting hatred" and violating election rules.
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A court in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has effectively banned Islamic schools. This decision applies to 2.7 million students and tens of thousands of teachers studying in 25,000 madrasahs in the state. Indian Muslims are protesting against the court order.
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Rohingya refugees from Myanmar face deportation in India. On March 8, the government of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur ordered the deportation of Rohingya refugees. The state's governor, Biren Singh, said on social media that his government would deport the first group of eight refugees who "entered India illegally". The deportation process was halted when the Myanmar government refused to cooperate with India on the matter. However, the Rohingya fear that this is a temporary problem.
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India has passed legislation to grant citizenship to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to India due to religious persecution in predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. This document can also be used to de-citizen Muslims in the northeastern states.
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One of India's most famous Muslims, Wakil Hasan's house in New Delhi was demolished without warning. In November, he and his team became heroes after rescuing 40 miners trapped in a landslide in 26 hours.
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Amnesty International, an international human rights organization, called on the Indian government to stop the illegal destruction of Muslim properties and to prosecute the company that manufactures the JCB bulldozers used in these processes.
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