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Pakistan: Mob assaults Christian man, torches house over 'blasphemy' in Sa
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
This is one of the many episodes that highlight the precarious situation faced by religious minorities in Pakistan, who continue to face the threats of persecution and attacks.
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TMC added minorities to OBC category without survey, issued them certifica
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Tripura OBC Morcha President Malina Debnath on Thursday slammed the TMC government led by Mamata Banerjee's government in West Bengal for adding Muslims to the OBCs category and manipulating them for the vote bank politics.
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Minorities have benefited most from Modi govt: BJP candidate from Pratapga
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
BJP candidate from Pratapgarh, Sangam Lal Gupta urged the minorities to vote for the BJP if they have benefited from the schemes of the BJP government. He said that the minorities have benefited the most from the Modi government.
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LS polls: BJP counts on CAA to retain Matua stronghold Bongaon, TMC sets h
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The Centre's much-debated Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), by which members of religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who settled in the country as refugees after fleeing alleged persecution in their homelands, are to be given permanent Indian residency; could well
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Reservation will not be abolished under any circumstances: Rajnath Singh
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Amid the ongoing row over reservation, Union Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday accused the opposition of instilling fear in minorities that reservation will be taken back if BJP retains power.
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For first time, a political party has promised to destroy Constitution: Ra
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"For the first time, a political party has said that if they come to power they will be destroying the Constitution. This Constitution gave rights to the poor, backward, dalits, adivasis, minorities, farmers, labourers of India. And today, big leaders of the BJP say that if they win the elec
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"First time, Lok Sabha elections being fought to save Constitution": Rahul
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"For the first time, this fight, this election is to save the Constitution. Whatever you have got, whether you are poor, farmers, labourers, backward, dalits, adivasis, minorities, poor general caste has been given by this book (Constitution). Without this (Constitution) the poor people o
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Pakistan Election Commission suspends lawmakers elected on reserved seats
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
As many as 21 lawmakers on reserved seats for women and four for minorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been denotified.
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Percentage of Hindus in population fell between 1950-2015, that of minorit
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"In the census of 1951, there were 88 per cent Hindus and 9.5 per cent Muslims while in the census of 2011, there were 79.8 per cent Hindus and 14.5 per cent Muslims...The population of SC, ST, and OBC will increase based only on natural causes. But the population of these people will grow
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IMF's All India Sikh Conclave supports PM Modi's vision of Viksit Bharat b
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Prominent members of the Sikh community from 20 states attended the All India Sikh Conclave, organised by the Indian Minorities Foundation (IMF), at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on Sunday on the theme 'Role of the Sikh community in nation-building and progress'.
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"No infrastructure was developed under Congress in North Eastern region, B
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
AIUDF leader Nazrul Hasan alleged that the Congress developed no infrastructure in the North Eastern region despite being in power for more than 55 years while also attacking the BJP for not doing any work for the minorities.
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"In today's India, Muslims are in similar situation to that of Jews during
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
He also emphasized that It does not suit a Prime Minister to term all minorities as "Infiltrators", just to win the elections.
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