Hate Crimes Database – December 2025: A Month Marked by an Alarming Surge in Hate Crimes By Muslim Mirror । January 9, 2026 https://muslimmirror.com/hate-crimes-database-december-2025-a-month-marked-by-an-alarming-surge-in-hate-crimes/ 

Hate Crimes Database – December 2025: A Month Marked by an Alarming Surge in Hate Crimes https://muslimmirror.com/category/monthly-hate-crime-data/

Since the BJP-led government came to power in 2014, there has been a marked rise in hate crimes targeting Muslims nationwide. Reports indicate that approximately 85% of these incidents involve individuals associated with the BJP or its allied Hindu organizations. In many cases, law enforcement agencies have displayed either indifference or hostility toward victims seeking help.

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Trump withdraws US from 66 international organizations  https://www.dw.com/en/trump-withdraws-us-from-66-international-organizations/a-75427108 Many of the organizations are UN-affiliated agencies and panels focused on climate, labor, migration and social policy. The US State Department said the agencies work on agendas contrary to US interests.

A ‘UNESCO Protected Biosphere Reserve’ tag alone may not be adequate to protect our fast deteriorating basket of natural resources in the country.  The high GDP growth rate paradigm adopted by the successive governments have rendered even the Protected Areas (PA) open for exploitation in the name of development projects, even though most of them may not be needed, or have benign alternatives. 
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NCR citizens seek ‘UNESCO Protected Biosphere Reserve’ tag for Aravallis
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/ncr-citizens-seek-unesco-protected-biosphere-reserve-tag-for-aravallis/article70471397.ece 
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As per media reports, a study of the PARIVESH portal of MoEF&CC has indicated that about 85% of all the project proposals before MoEF&CC, seeking diversion of forest lands even within PAs and the associated buffer zones, have been approved between a time period 2014 and 2018; which may also indicate the highly troublign scenario of thousands of Hectares of natural forest cover getting destroyed in about 20 years, despite the fact that the country has only about 22% of the land area covered by forest & trees, as compared to the national forest policy target of 33%.

TN picks ‘least-impact’ site for Upper Bhavani pumped storage project
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2026/Jan/05/tn-picks-least-impact-site-for-upper-bhavani-pumped-storage-project