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Rahul Gandhi does not work, just keeps on agitating: Naqvi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi just keeps on agitating and does not do any work.
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UN experts appalled by enforced disappearance of Pak activist Idris Khatta
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 2 (ANI): UN human rights experts have condemned the enforced disappearance of Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender, calling it an "intolerable attack" on his legitimate work against a range of human rights and minority violations in the Khyber Pakhtunkh
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Nepal Opposition take to streets against discriminative Citizenship Act
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], July 1 (ANI): The Nepal's opposition Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) on Tuesday staged nationwide protests against the new Citizenship Bill claiming it to have targeted the minority groups of the nation.
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Carrie Lam says HK security law only targets 'small minority of illegal, c
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 30 (ANI): Hong Kong's top official Carrie Lam on Tuesday said that the national security law will target only an "extremely small minority of illegal and criminal acts and activities" and assured that it will rather make the territory safer for most residents.
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UP govt using police as 'tool of oppression': Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on arr
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday slammed the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government over the arrest of party's minority cell chairman Shahnawaz Alam and said the government is using police as a "tool of oppression".
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UP Congress Minority cell chief arrested in connection with anti-CAA prote
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 30 (ANI): UP Congress Minority cell chief, Shahnawaz Alam was arrested by police in the later hours of Monday in connection with anti-CAA protest on December 19, 2019.
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Congress is trying to turn disaster into anarchy: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 28 (ANI): Taking a jibe at Congress, union minister of minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said that while the entire country is strongly working for turning "disaster into opportunity", the Congress is trying to turn "disaster into anarchy."
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UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in C
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 26 (ANI): Independent experts from the United Nations have called for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China as they raised deep concerns over treatment of Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang and said the impending national security law concernin
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US report says China uses counter-terrorism as pretext to detain, carry ou
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 24 (ANI): A US report issued by the Department of State has said that China uses counter-terrorism (CT) as a pretext to detain and carry out a repressive campaign against millions of Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in internment camps in the Xi
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Haj 2020: UP govt asks pilgrims to apply for refund
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 24 (ANI): A day after Saudi Arabia announced that it will hold a "very limited" Hajj this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, Uttar Pradesh Minority Minister Mohsin Raza on Wednesday asked the people, who had registered themselves for Haj pilgrims, to
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Honouring Saudi Govt decision, Indian Muslims will not go on Haj this year
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday informed that India has honoured the decision of Saudi Arabia Government to ban international pilgrims to perform Haj.
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India condemns abduction of Sikh community leader by terrorists in Afghani
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): India on Monday strongly condemned the abduction of Nedan Singh, a Sikh community leader in Afghanistan, by terrorists, and said that targeting and persecution of the minority community members by terror groups at the behest of their external supporters is a
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