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High-level team of Minority Affairs ministry to visit Srinagar
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 26 (ANI): A high-level team of Ministry of Minority Affairs including four-five members will visit Kashmir on August 27-28 to explore the development possibilities in the area.
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E-commerce giant Amazon acquires minority stake in Biyani's Future Coupons
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 23 (ANI): Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail has said that e-commerce giant Amazon will pick up 49 per cent stake in Future Coupons Ltd.
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Aligarh: Husband of BJP minority wing leader beaten over wife's participat
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Aug 11 (ANI): The husband of a local BJP leader was allegedly beaten near Delhi Gate here apparently by some people who were miffed about the participation of his wife in a membership drive of his party here.
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Trafficking of Christian girls to China adds to woes of minorities in Paki
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Aug 10 (ANI): The girls from the Christian minority community in Pakistan are not forcibly married to Chinese but trafficked to China and subsequently subjected to prostitution.
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BJP Minority Morcha praises decisions on Jammu and Kashmir
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 10 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party Minority Morcha on Saturday endorsed the decision to abrogate Article 370 and bifurcating Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories.
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Took decades for the historic mistake to be rectified: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), August 6 (ANI): Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi echoed BJP's stance on abrogation of Article 370, which does away with the special status to Jammu and Kashmir said, "it took decades for the historic mistake to be rectified".
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Palwal incident: 'Where are those people now who stand up for minorities'
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Palwal (Haryana) [India] Aug 2 (ANI): Weeks after a cow vigilante was allegedly shot dead by cattle smugglers, Anil Vij, Minister in the Haryana cabinet on Friday hit out at people who create an uproar when a person from the minority community is attacked and questioned their absence.
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Govt bringing law on triple talaq for empowerment of Muslim women: Naqvi i
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): The BJP government is bringing the law on triple talaq for the social, financial and constitutional empowerment of Muslim women in the country, said Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
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Myanmar officials hold repatriation talks with Rohingya in Cox's Bazar
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], July 28 (ANI): A visiting delegation of Myanmar government officials to Cox's Bazar, the southeast coastal district in Bangladesh with the largest number of Rohingya camps, held repatriation talks with the Muslim minority on Saturday and tried to convince them to return t
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They are playing minority card with wrong facts: Vivek Agnihotri on letter
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 26 (ANI): Film director Vivek Agnihotri along with 62 other celebrities wrote an open letter 'Against Selective Outrage & False Narratives' to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a counter to the letter written recently by 49 eminent persons on the issue o
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Naqvi says opposition to Triple Talaq Bill is for votes
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday hits back at the opposition parties for opposing the Triple Talaq Bill stating that they are afraid of losing a certain set of votes despite the fact the Bill is in lines with the constitutional co
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No mob lynching case registered with us: National Minority Commission memb
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Fatehabad (Haryana) [India], July 24 (ANI): In a startling revelation Manjit Singh, Member of the National Commission for Minorities on Wednesday said that no case of mob lynching has been registered with the commission and assured that appropriate action will be initiated if any such case c
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