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Kotkhai rape, murder case: Lone accused sentenced to life imprisonment til
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Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 19 (ANI): A trial Court in Shimla on Friday sentenced the 28-year-old lone accused to life imprisonment in the rape and murder of a 16-year-old minor girl in the forest of Halaila, Kotkhai of Shimla district in 2017.
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UN rights experts 'extremely alarmed' by forced organ harvesting of minori
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Geneva [Switzerland], June 18 (ANI): United Nations (UN) human rights experts have sounded alarm over the reports of alleged 'organ harvesting' that is targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, who are currently in detention in China
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China sanctions Belgian lawmaker after motion passed on Uyghurs genocide
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Beijing [China], June 18 (ANI): China has sanctioned a Belgian lawmaker who called for a proposal warning of a risk of genocide against the Uyghur Muslims minority in the country's Xinjiang province.
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Martech Leader Netcore Cloud does a strategic investment in fast-growing C
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 17 (ANI/PRNewswire): Netcore Cloud, a pioneer in Intelligent Customer Engagement & Communications, has acquired a minority stake with a strategic investment in Easyrewardz, an Omnichannel Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform.
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Four arrested for sexual abuse of minor girls at Jharkhand shelter home
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Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) [India], June 17 (ANI): Four persons including the manager, his wife, and the warden of a shelter home in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur were arrested in connection with physical exploitation and sexual molestation of minor girls from the Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh,
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Pakistan: 13-yr-old Christian girl forcibly converted to Islam, father see
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 16 (ANI): The forced conversion of girls from religious minorities to Islam continues unabated in Pakistan and its latest victim is a 13-year-old Christian girl.
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Naqvi terms Loni incident 'dangerous conspiracy to tear apart communal har
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New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI): Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday expressed his disappointment over the incident in Uttar Pradesh's Loni and stated that an 'unfortunate criminal incident' was communalised to tear apart the harmony in the country.
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Minority Commission seeks detailed report of post-poll violence in WB from
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 16 (ANI): Taking cognisance of the post-poll violence in West Bengal, the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Tuesday asked the West Bengal's Director General of Police to submit a detailed report on the matter within 21 days.
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India with Saudi Arabia on decision not to allow foreign Haj pilgrims amid
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New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday said that India is with Riyadh's decision not to allow pilgrims from outside Saudi Arabia to go on Haj this year due to COVID-19.
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Population growth of Han faster than ethnic minority Uygur in China's Xinj
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Beijing [China], June 15 (ANI): The Han population in China's western region of Xinjiang grew faster than the ethnic minority Uygur population over the last decade, according to a report in South China Morning Post.
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Czech Senate declares China perpetrating genocide on Uyghurs in Xinjiang
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Prague [Czech Republic], June 15 (ANI): The Czech Senate has voted unanimously on a motion labelling the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs Muslim and other ethnic and religious minorities as amounting to "genocide and crimes against humanity."
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Pakistan's minority communities overlooked by mainstream media
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Karachi [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): Religious and ethnic minorities have been overlooked in Pakistan's mainstream media due to reporting priorities in the industry being dictated by commercial interests rather than human rights or public good.
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