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Meghalaya TMC questions NPP silence on Assam church survey row, says party
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Meghalaya Trinamool Congress on Wednesday slammed the National People's Party for failing to take a stand against the recent Assam Police directive seeking information on churches and religious conversions in the region, with State VP George B Lyngdoh saying that NPP should question BJP
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SC to hear on Jan 2 pleas challenging state laws regulating inter-faith ma
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on January 2 a batch of pleas challenging state laws regulating religious conversions due to interfaith marriage.
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Unfair to create ruckus in country on religious conversion: Mayawati
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"Forcibly everything is bad and changing and getting religion changed with bad intentions, both are wrong," said the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo.
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Uttar Pradesh : 2 booked for 'forced religious' conversion in Sitapur
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Sitapur Police on Tuesday filed an FIR against 2 persons in a case of alleged forced religious conversion in Uttar Pradesh.
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MP: Person willing to convert have to submit application to District Magis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to the notified rules, it will be mandatory for a person who voluntarily changes its religion and for the Dharmacharya, a person who converts the religion, to submit an application to the District Magistrate at least 60 days in advance of the conversion.
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Madhya Pradesh notifies Freedom of Religion Act, 2022
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
With an aim of curbing cases of forced religious conversions, the Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday notified the Freedom of Religion Act.
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SC to hear plea against forced religious conversion on January 9
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of a plea claiming that fraudulent and deceitful religious conversion is rampant across the country to January 9 next year.
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"Anti-conversion law should be enacted..." says Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday took note of religious conversions by saying that an anti-conversion law should be made to stop such acts.
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Winter session of Haryana Assembly from December 22: CM Manohar Lal Khatta
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The meeting of the state's council of ministers on Thursday also decided on giving people a 10 per cent rebate on scrapping their old vehicles and buying a new one.
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Uttarakhand Assembly passes strict anti-conversion Bill
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Two important bills were passed by voice vote in the Uttarakhand assembly on the second day of the supplementary budget session on Thursday. A strict law regarding religious conversion in the state is now in place after the passage of the Uttarakhand Religion Freedom (Amendment) Bill 2022.
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Right to freedom of religion doesn't include fundamental right to convert
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
It is "cognizant of the gravity and the seriousness" of the issue, said the Centre in its affidavit filed on a PIL claiming that fraudulent and deceitful religious conversion is rampant across the country.
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Six booked for raping, forcing conversion in UP's Bareilly
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly police have registered a case against one youth named Akleem allegedly for raping a girl.
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