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‘I didn’t go’: The last Muslim man in Indian town hit by religious strife

The 15 Muslim families in Nanda Nagar fled after they were attacked by neighbours. Ahamad Hasan decided to return.

Ahamad Hasan was once the only dry-cleaner in the remote town of Nanda Nagar in northern India, visited by Hindu and Muslim customers alike. Now, he waits for hours for people to come by [Jawaher Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]

India’s LGBTQ community battles same-sex marriage ‘heartbreak’ from court

Supreme Court recognises LBGTQ community faces discrimination from state, but declines to get into ‘judicial lawmaking’.

LGBTQ students and activists take out a march in New Delhi after the top court declined to legalise same-sex marriage and left it to parliament to decide [Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]

‘Climate change killed my family’: Unusual monsoon hammers India’s Himachal

Record-breaking torrential rain leaves trail of unprecedented devastation in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh state.

Himachal survived worst monsoons in a century

What India’s right-wing gov’t is erasing from school textbooks

Government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.

India textbooks

Is India’s food security scheme discriminating against Dalits?

Dalit activists say government’s Public Distribution System of food grains often excludes the marginalised community.

India Dalits food security

Bulli Bai: India’s Muslim women again listed on app for ‘auction’

App, now taken down, displayed women ‘for sale as maids’, with victims saying they have little hope of action by police.

Quratulain Rehbar

The human cost of India’s yearlong farmers’ protest

Farmers’ unions say at least nine farmers died by suicide among a total of nearly 700 deaths, leaving families in debt.

Lovepreet Singh showing a photo of his late father Gurpreet Singh on his mobile phone [Sukhman Billing/Al Jazeera]

India denying subsidised food grains to millions of its poor

Faulty public distribution system based on a 2011 census excludes the country’s most vulnerable reeling under pandemic.

Tabassum Nisha holding her 2013 receipt of her application for a ration card [Srishti Jaswal/Al Jazeera]

This Indian village refused COVID vaccines, fearing a god’s wrath

In Himachal Pradesh’s Malana village, a local deity ‘told’ residents not to take the vaccine. How did they come around?

Malana resident Bhudhi Devi chanting the name of the local deity at her house [Srishti Jaswal/Al Jazeera]

Punjab gasps as India’s Modi refuses to seek oxygen from Pakistan

Repeated requests by Punjab leaders to import life-saving gas from ‘enemy nation’ go unheeded by federal government.

Empty oxygen cylinders kept at a local health facility in Bhatinda, Punjab [Lalita Verma/Al Jazeera]