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PM Modi urges Sri Lanka to ensure equality, justice for Tamils
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 8 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday once again called upon Sri Lankan government to ensure equality, justice, peace, and respect for the minority Tamils in the island nation.
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Fadnavis had given green signal to it: Nawab Malik on land allotment issue
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik said that those opposing the state government's decision regarding allotment of land to a trust should ask former state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
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Someone had to become PM, so line was drawn and country was divided, says
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday talked about the partition of India while outlining the oppression being faced by 'Hindus, Sikhs and other minority' segments in Pakistan.
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Khalistanis a marginal minority with no political support, says counter-te
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India] Feb 5 (ANI): Labelling slain Khalistani terrorist Harmeet Singh alias Happy PhD as a martyr is an exercise conducted at the behest of Khalistani secessionists in the Sikh diaspora, according to a counter-terrorism expert.
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Delhi Assembly polls: Rallies by Gandhi family to focus on Dalit, Muslim,
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 3 (ANI): The top leaders of Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, will hold rallies for the campaign in Delhi Assembly elections with a focus to cover Dalit, Purvanchal and minority voters, party sources said.
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Bullet has no place in democracy, says BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 2 (ANI): Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said that a bullet has no place in a democracy while responding to a question on two separate firing incidents that took place in Jamia and Sh
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Cong MP writes to Punjab CM, expresses concern over attack on minority ins
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 28 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP Pratap Singh Bajwa on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh regarding an alleged attack on a minority institution in Punjab, saying that some people in the state are intentionally trying to damage the property.
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Congress' K Rahman Khan slams Renukacharya for making anti-minority remar
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Jan 28 (ANI): Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister K Rahman Khan on Tuesday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party leader MP Renukacharya for making anti-minority statements.
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Nawab Malik opposes Padma Shri to Adnan Sami, says it is 'insult to people
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 27 (ANI): Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik on Monday slammed the BJP led Central government over Padma Shri being awarded to Singer Adnan Sami and said that it is a damage control exercise of the BJP and an insult to the people of India.
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UN rights expert welcomes ICJ ruling on Myanmar to protect Rohingyas
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], Jan 23 (Sputnik/ANI): UN human rights expert Yanghee Lee has welcomed the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ruling that Myanmar must protect the Rohingya minority but emphasised that allegations of crimes against the community remain to be addressed, the Office of the Hi
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Amit Shah accuses Congress, AAP of provoking minority community to cause r
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday accused Congress and AAP of provoking the youth and the main minority community to cause "riots" in the national capital during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and said Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriw
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CAA brought to instil fear among Muslims, SC only hope left for them: Digv
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Itarsi (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday alleged that the Citizenship Amendment Act was brought by the Centre to instil fear among Muslims and said the only hope left for the minority community is the Supreme Court.
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