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Rohingya issue: UN to send fact-finding mission to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 24 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send an independent international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country, against the ethnic Rohingya Muslims in particular.
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Shiv Sena calls for complete boycott of Pak
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Mar. 21 (ANI): Expressing grave concern over the recent episode where two Indian Sufi clerics had disappeared in Pakistan, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday said the Indians and Muslims in the country in particular should isolate Islamabad completely.
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One million Indian Muslims sign petition against triple talaq
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 18 (ANI): With the battle against triple talaq gaining momentum by the day, over a million Muslims from across India with women in majority, have signed a petition to end the controversial divorce practice of triple talaq.
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Nahid Afrin fatwa: Any kind of entertainment for Muslims is a crime, says
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 16 (ANI): Muslim cleric Maulana Sazid Rashidi while commenting on the fatwa issued against a singer in Assam stated that any kind of entertainment for Muslims is crime and this act of Nahid Afrin can only promote misunderstandings in the country.
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Baloch is graver issue than Rohingya Muslims: Activist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 13 (ANI): As the Baloch political and human rights activists have demanded a special rapporteur in the United Nations to probe gross human rights violations in Pakistan's Balochistan province, Baloch activist Ahmar Mastikhan has stressed that Balochistan is a
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Telangana Assembly to pass two legislations to enhance reservation for STs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana)[India], Mar 12 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has said that the state assembly will pass two legislations during the ongoing Budget Session to enhance reservation for the Scheduled Tribes and Muslims.
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Florida: Man tries to burn store run by Indian-Americans, mistakes them fo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], Mar. 12 (ANI): In yet another incident highlighting the dangerously growing trend of racist attacks in the United States, a man in Florida tried to burn down a convenience store owned by Indian-Americans, thinking they were 'Muslims'.
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BJP speaks of communal harmony but not one ticket given to Muslims: Congre
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 12 (ANI): Following their humiliating defeat in the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, the Congress on Sunday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not giving out a single ticket to any Muslim candidate, stating that the saffron party preache
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Congress targeted RSS by using Muslims, says Indresh Kumar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 8 (ANI): Expressing contentment over the National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court verdict in the 2007 Ajmer blast case, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Wednesday alleged that the Congress was targeting the saffron organisation and used Muslims as the
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Muslims should stand equal with Hindus by ridding off 'minority'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Mar. 7 (ANI): After stoking a controversy by demanding a review on the definition of 'minorities', Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday while defending his earlier remark, asserted the Muslim community should be brought above the 'minority' categ
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Should BJP win in UP, Muslim candidates will get tickets: Naqvi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 27 (ANI): Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said that the BJP is a party that takes all communities and people of various religious persuasion along with it, adding that while it is not looking at religion-based distribution of tick
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Muslim votes for SP will help BJP: Mayawati
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Deoria, (Uttar Pradesh), Feb. 24 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on Monday said Muslims voting for the Samajwadi Party (SP) would eventually end up helping the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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