A 23-year-old Muslim, who was riding a bus with a woman of another religion, was allegedly beaten and stabbed by members of the Bajrang Dal on Thursday. The New Indian Express reported on Friday. Four people have been arrested in connection with the incident. Some media reports mentioned that the …
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Four activists from Bajrang Dal of Mangalore, Karnataka, have been arrested in connection with an incident of alleged ‘moral surveillance’ a day after they allegedly attacked a young man and woman, of different religious backgrounds, on a city bus local police said on Saturday. An attempted murder case was recorded …
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In late January this year, a video went viral on social media of a woman questioning a group of men who had come to her home to collect funds for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. In the clip she can be heard asking the masked men: “Aapko …
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NEW DELHI: More than 100 former bureaucrats have written a letter to the UP prime minister Yogi Adityanath, saying that the anti-conversion ordinance had transformed the state into an “epicenter of policies of hatred, division and intolerance” and demanded its immediate withdrawal. The open letter with 104 signatories, including the …
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NEW DELHI: Head of Facebook India Ajit mohan he is known to have denied as “factually incorrect and false” a Wall Street Journal report on the social media giant who refrained from banning Bajrang Dal for fear of retaliation. Mohan’s testimony before the standing parliamentary committee on information technology on …
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The parliamentary information technology panel on Wednesday blamed Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan for the social media company’s reluctance to ban Bajrang Dal, although an internal report, according to the Wall Street Journal, called the group nationalist. Hindu as a “dangerous” organization. It is the second time in five months …
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Ajit Mohan deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by the leader of Congress, Shashi Tharoor. Facebook’s India boss Ajit Mohan deposed before a parliamentary panel on Wednesday and suggested that the social media company’s fact-checking team has so far not found any items that would require …
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NEW DELHI: Facebook India refused to rank Bajrang Dal as a “dangerous organization” on the platform, saying it could lead to “physical attacks” against company personnel and damage its business prospects, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Deputy Secretary General Surendra Jain told TOI that the …
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Facebook allowed a video of Bajrang Dal claiming responsibility for an attack on a church. (Archive) New Delhi: Despite being labeled by Facebook’s security team as a potentially dangerous organization that supports violence against minorities across India, Bajrang Dal has been allowed to thrive on the social network for political …
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New Delhi: An internal security team at Facebook reportedly issued a warning that if the social media giant classified Bajrang Dal as a “dangerous organization” and banned it from the platform, it could lead to physical attacks on staff or facilities. of the company in India. According to a news …
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