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SC refuses plea seeking minority status for Hindus
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 10 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the plea seeking minority status for Hindus in several states.
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UN calls on Myanmar to end excessive military force in Rakhine state
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [USA], November 7 (ANI): Strongly condemning the widespread violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, which has led to the displacement of over 600,000 members of the country's minority Muslim Rohingya community, the United Nations Security Council has called on the Myanmar Government
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54th Nagas' meet in Delhi revisits the rich cultural ethos of Naga communi
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Nov. 2 (ANI): Each year, students from the northeast region residing in various parts of the country organize various events and activities to remain connected to their roots. Remembering the ancestral history and strengthening the bonding amidst various tribes of the Nagas
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SC to hear pleas against cow vigilantism
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.31 (ANI): The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear several pleas seeking ban on cow vigilante groups across the nation.
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Little attention paid to Rohingyas ties with international terrorism: Expe
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [USA], Oct 27 (ANI): Little attention has been paid to Rohingyas ties with international terrorism despite media covering the mass exodus of the minority community following violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, says an expert.
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GST will remain a 'Good and Simple Tax': Naqvi
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Oct 23 (ANI): Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will remain as a Good and Simple Tax in the coming days to come.
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Intolerant Pakistan finding new ways to torment its minorities
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Oct.20 (ANI): Pakistan was essentially created to protect the religious and economic rights of Muslims who were a minority before the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. But since the country's inception, new minorities have been created and Islamabad keeps f
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Kashmiri Pundits, Sikhs meet EU delegation
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.16 (ANI): A delegation of Kashmiri Pundits and Sikhs from Jammu and Kashmir, who form the minority communities of the state, met the European Union Delegation here today.
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Those questioning need for bullet train are in a minority: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said people who have a negative mindset with regard to the introduction of the bullet train in India are in a minority now, and added that related technology would be manufactured soon in the country.
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'Experienced' Yashwant Sinha didn't measure economy effectively this time:
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said former finance minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha didn't measure the Indian economy effectively this time despite having years of experience on the subj
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PM Modi has worked beyond boundaries of religion, caste: Naqvi
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept.30 (ANI): Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has worked beyond the boundaries of religion and caste.
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UN Chief proposes solution to Myanmar to address Rohingya crisis
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [U.S.A], September 29 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has termed massive exodus of Rohingya Muslim minority as the 'world's fastest-developing refugee emergency' and proposed three things for the Myanmar government to address the humanitarian crisis.
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