Tag: Minorities

India oi-Prakash KL | Updated: Sunday, June 25, 2023, 21:11 Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday slammed former US president Barack Obama's statement about minority rights in India, saying his remarks were surprising as six Muslim-majority countries had faced US "bombing" during his tenure. Addressing a press conference ...

Rashtriya Swayamevak Sangh (RSS) joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya on Saturday said India always had spiritual democracy and it is this identity which is known as Hindutva in the world. Rashtriya Swayamevak Sangh (RSS) joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya.(File/ PTI) Read here: Satya Pal Malik gets defamation notice from ...

Nirmala Sitharaman further said that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are also holding a roundtable on Global Sovereign Debt. Published Date - 09:24 AM, Tue - 11 April 23 New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday slammed the reports appearing in Western media about violence ...

Muslims doing better in India than Pakistan: Nirmala Sitharaman counters Western perception of minorities in country (Watch) | Washington: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday (local time) gave a befitting reply to the negative Western 'perception' of India at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) where she ...

Supreme Court of India. File. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court on April 10 gave Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Telangana a “last opportunity” to give their views on whether minorities should be identified State-wise and not nationally.Appearing before a Bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan ...

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a batch of pleas seeking the identification of minorities at the State-level. A Bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Ahsanuddin Amanullah will take up for hearing the petitions raising various issues related to the identification of minorities, including challenging ...

SRINAGAR, Mar 3: Stringent measures are being taken to provide security to the members of the minority community in the valley, a senior CRPF officer in Jammu and Kashmir said here on Friday.Minority pickets of CRPF are on alert, we review the security regularly. Our endeavour is to keep ...

ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over the continued persecution of religious minorities in the country, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for an urgent legislation to criminalise forced conversions.In its latest report, ‘A Breach of Faith: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2021-22’, released on Tuesday, the HRCP ...

Implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act could reduce the role of minorities in the country, while encouraging majoritarian forces, Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen has said, reported PTI on Saturday.“As far as I can see, one of BJP’s purposes is to reduce the role of ...

BJP-RULED GUJARAT, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have favoured the current system of identifying and notifying minorities at the national level — which leaves out Hindus from the list of religious minorities — while the party’s governments in Assam and Uttarakhand have opined that the unit of identification of minorities ...