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Pakistan's minority communities overlooked by mainstream media
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): Religious and ethnic minorities have been overlooked in Pakistan's mainstream media due to reporting priorities in the industry being dictated by commercial interests rather than human rights or public good.
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3 arrested under UP's anti-conversion law in Rampur
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday arrested three people under the anti-conversion law of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly doing religious conversion of a woman.
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Pak religious leader held for threatening Malala over her views on marriag
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lakki Marwat [Pakistan], June 11 (ANI): A religious leader in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Lakki Marwat district was arrested for threatening and inciting violence over Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai's remarks on marriage.
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Six-year-old video was circulated out of jealousy, enmity, says rapper Adi
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): After missing hip-hop rapper Aditya Tiwari was traced in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur, his mother Deep Tiwari said that trollers circulated her son's 6-year-old video out of jealousy and enmity and gave a religious colour to it.
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Human rights violations, curtailed religious freedom qualifies Pakistan to
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 9 (ANI): Successive Pakistani administrations have engaged in gross violations of human rights, suppressed dissent and curtailed religious freedom. It qualifies Pakistan to be designated as a terror sponsor State.
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TN government retrieves encroached land of Chennai's Vadapalani temple
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 7 (ANI): PK Sekar Babu, Tamil Nadu Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department on Monday informed about the official retrieval of land of the Vadapalani Murugan temple here.
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Religious organisation launches low cost mobile medical units called b SOZ
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 3 (ANI): To help the people of Telangana, especially those from rural backgrounds, a religious organisation named "The Lord's Church" in collaboration with VERA Smart Hospitals, has come forward to set up 66 Mobile Medical Units, named b SOZO buses on Thu
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Elderly Uyghur woman detained in Xinjiang for 'religious extremism'
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 30 (ANI): Authorities in China's Xinjiang region confirmed the detainment of an elderly Uyghur woman in an internment camp earlier this year on suspicions of 'religious extremism' after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbours, informed authorities.
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Hindu lawmaker in Pak seeks 'non-Muslims' status for religious minorities
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): A Hindu lawmaker in Pakistan has submitted a bill in the lower house of Parliament, seeking a constitutional amendment that would ensure that religious minorities in the Muslim majority nation are constitutionally identified as non-Muslims, in a bid to
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US condemns China's sanctions against former USCIRF Commissioner: Blinken
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 28 (ANI): The United States condemns China's move to impose sanctions on former US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Commissioner Johnnie Moore, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday (local time).
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TN Minister takes a swipe at north Indians living in state for supporting
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 26 (ANI): The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister of Tamil Nadu, PK Sekar Babu took a swipe at North Indians living in Chennai for supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the Assembly polls.
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Growing influence of Islamists in Bangladesh eroding its secular culture:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 24 (ANI): Bangladesh, world's third largest Muslim country, which was swept by a wave of Islamic militancy from 1999 to 2005, has seen an increase in terrorist activity in recent years, including attacks on foreigners, activists and religious minorities.
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