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"Only Muslims, Backward classes, Dalits being served Form 7 notices": Akhi
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that minorities and backward communities are being selectively targeted under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh and said that the party has sought time from the Election Commission to raise the
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"Nothing in central budget for Uttar Pradesh or Ayodhya": Samajwadi Party
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad said, This budget has nothing to do with the state's farmers, youth, laborers, Dalits, backward classes, minorities... Hope is placed in someone who has ever lived up to expectations, but these people have never lived up to expectations... What hope can
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Bangladesh braces for historic February 12 polls: First vote since Hasina
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Bangladesh holds crucial parliamentary polls and a referendum tomorrow after Sheikh Hasina's ouster. Over 12.77 crore voters will decide 299 seats amid high security and hopes for democratic reform. Minorities fear post-poll violence in some areas.
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Bangladesh: Another Hindu businessman killed in Mymensingh
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Another incident of an attack on minorities was reported in Bangladesh on Tuesday, when a Hindu businessman was killed by unidentified individuals in the Trishal area of Mymensingh district in northern Bangladesh.
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NCP leader Sunetra Pawar takes charge as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
The newly appointed Deputy CM has been allocated the portfolios of State Excise Duty, Sports and Youth Affairs and Minorities Development and Auqaf.
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"PM Modi calls himself biggest backward leader, what's his response to SC'
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Speaking at a public rally in Karimnagar, Owaisi said the UGC guidelines mandate that colleges and universities take action if students from backward classes, Dalits, tribals, or minorities face harassment. He claimed that "upper-caste groups tried to create a storm across the country" ag
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Consultation on religious freedom in South Asia flags institutional gaps;
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
The event featured in-depth discussions on the roles of institutions, justice delivery mechanisms, and the lived realities of religious minorities in South Asia. Speakers emphasised that while constitutional guarantees exist in countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, their effective imple
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Telangana CM Revanth Reddy "trojan horse" for BJP among Congress: BRS' KT
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
KTR exhorted the electorate, particularly minorities, to "peel back the Congress mask" to reveal the saffron identity underneath. "Revanth was never a Congressman at heart; he remains a BJP man through and through. He is merely the younger brother to the 'Bade Bhai' in Delhi," KTR asserte
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China tightens curbs on Tibetan religious life, bars children under 18 fro
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Notices stating "Children under 18 are not allowed in the monastery" were reportedly posted at the monastery entrance in Kham, indicating stricter enforcement of long-standing regulations restricting minors' involvement in religious life, according to Phayul.
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"Revanth Reddy walking Jinnah's path": Telangana BJP chief slams CM on min
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Rao alleged that the CM is following the ideological path laid down by Mohammad Ali Jinnah's "infamous 14 Points of 1929", suggesting that the Congress party's agenda in Telangana is now apparent.
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"Whenever Muslims wanted anything, Congress fulfilled it": Telangana CM vo
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Friday reaffirmed his government's commitment to safeguarding the 4 per cent reservation for minorities in the state, asserting that the Congress has always supported the community whenever their needs arose.
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"Not just in Bengal, even in UP": SP MP Awadhesh Prasad backs Mamata Baner
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Speaking to ANI, Awadhesh Prasad said the issue was not confined to West Bengal alone and had wider national implications, particularly for Dalits, backward classes, minorities and the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) sections.
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