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Minorities Commission seeks detailed report on Patiala clashes
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): The National Commission of Minorities (NCM) on Friday wrote a letter to the Chief Secretary of Punjab requesting to send a detailed report on the clash "involving one minority community" in Patiala.
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China using diplomatic leverage to target Uyghurs abroad
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 28 (ANI): China is using its diplomatic heft with countries in Central, West, and South Asia to hunt down and target Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities who have taken refuge abroad, a media report said.
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Anti-China militancy sharpens in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 28 (ANI): The April 26 terror attack in the heart of the University of Karachi indicates that militancy in Pakistan, of both religious and ethnic variety, while not sparing traditional adversaries - minorities and the state -- is increasingly getting a distinct an
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We are working for welfare of minorities, any law will be enacted after di
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 27 (ANI): A day after the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) termed the Uniform Civil Code 'unconstitutional' and 'anti-minority', Uttar Pradesh's Minority Welfare Minister Danish Azad Ansari said that any law will be made only after establish
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AIMPLB calls Uniform Civil Code unconstitutional, anti-minorities move
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): Terming the Uniform Civil Code 'an unconstitutional and anti-minorities move', the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Tuesday called the rhetoric for bringing the law an attempt by Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Central government to divert
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Taliban's promises to protect Afghan minorities falling apart amid a spate
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 26 (ANI): With a spate of attacks in minority-dominated areas of Afghanistan in recent weeks, the assurances that the Taliban regime gave to the world after the takeover of Kabul in August last year seem to be falling apart, a media report said.
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Rights experts raise concerns over human rights violations in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 25 (ANI): Several human rights experts have raised their voices against the violation of rights in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, especially against the minorities in the country.
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Uyghur academic sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in China's Xinjiang
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 24 (ANI): A Uyghur lecturer has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region [XUAR], said a media report citing a security officer at the university where he worked.
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No innocent person should be booked in Jahangirpuri violence: National min
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI): A National Commission for Minorities delegation led by chairperson Iqbal Singh Lalpura visited Delhi's Jahangirpuri where clashes erupted between members of two groups and called upon the administration to ensure that no innocent person is booked in the
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Goa govt to prevent religious conversions of marginalised, minorities
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], April 16 (ANI): The religious conversions are increasing in Goa and marginalised people are being targeted, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday, adding that his government would not allow such conversion to take place in the state.
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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi aims to promote 'Unity in Diversity' in country
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): On the occasion of Mahavir Jayanti, Union Minister of Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Thursday vouched for promoting 'Unity in Diversity' in the country.
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Systematic Uyghur genocide depicts human rights abuses against ethnic mino
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 11 (ANI): The systematic Uyghur genocide by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang characterizes the human rights abuses committed by China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities, said a media report.
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