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Outgoing VP Hamid Ansari speaks on minorities, democracy in his last RS ad
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): In his last address as the Vice-President, Hamid Ansari on Thursday said that democracy would turn into tyranny, if opposition groups are not given the right to free criticism, adding that a democracy is distinguished by the protection it gives to minority
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Minority status to non-Muslims: SC gives last chance to J-K Govt. to file
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave final chance to the Jammu and Kashmir Government to file a reply within three months on the issue of the minority status to non-Muslims in the state.
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Muslim minority status in J-K: SC to hear plea today
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 08 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a plea filed by Ankur Sharma, questioning the minority status of the Jammu and Kashmir's Muslims.
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Repeal blasphemy law to make Pak safe place for minority Christians, says
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Aug.7 (ANI): Christians, who form about 1.6 percent of Pakistan's population, live in constant fear of persecution from extremist Islamic groups in that country because of legal strictures such as the draconian "Blasphemy Law", a woman Member of the Europea
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MP's Mhow to host two-day leadership workshop for Dalits, other minor
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): A two-day leadership conclave will be organized in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, next month for representatives of minority communities, including Dalit, Muslims and other backward classes.
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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi flags off first batch of Haj pilgrims from Delhi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): Minister of State for Minority Affairs (Independent Charge) and Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today flagged off the first batch of 300 Haj pilgrims from New Delhi Airport with prayers of country's safety and prosperity.
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China frequently cracking down on expressions of Muslim identity over terr
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. (United States), July 14 (ANI): A more than decade-long study on anti-Muslim sentiment in China has found that a majority of Chinese view Islam, minority groups and particularly Muslim groups residing in the country's Xinjiang province with suspicion because of concerns
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Centre harbouring private armies in name of cow protection: Yechury
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 13 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said that the Centre is giving shelter to the private armies to target minority communities in the name of cow protection.
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China encouraging majority Han population to migrate to minority Muslim-re
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], July 13 (ANI): Often there have been questions about China's mistreatment of its minorities, whether on the plight of the Tibetans or rising tensions between the Chinese state and the Uighurs of Xinjiang.
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Naqvi says Lalu wrongly depicting his scams as 'his' struggle fo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 10 (ANI): Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is depicting his corruption cases as "his" struggle for freedom.
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Minority Hindus of Pakistan Punjab's Haroonabad area told to vacate
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore (Punjab) [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): The minority Hindu community in Pakistan, it seems, continues to face discrimination, prejudice and intolerance.
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J-K Cop lynching: Activist returns award, says `Talibanisation` happening
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): Condemning the brutal lynching of Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP), Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mohammed Ayub Pandith by a mob, Human Rights Activist Shabnam Hashmi returned her award National Minority Rights Award saying the spreading 'Talibani
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