minorities
- India
Watch: Young girl kisses infant with joy after reaching India from Kabul
New Delhi: Among the evacuees from Afghanistan who landed at the Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad on Sunday were at least two infants and several children. An infant sitting on the lap of…
- World
Report: Taliban killed minorities, fuelling Afghans’ fears
Kabul: Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted Friday, fuelling fears that they will return Afghanistan to the repressive rule they imposed when they were last in power, even…
- Telangana
Free coaching for NEET: Applications invited from minority candidates
Hyderabad: Prof. S.A. Shukoor, director of CEDM has said that the minority welfare department of Telangana state is going to provide free coaching for NEET 2021 to students belonging to minority communities…
- Hyderabad
Congress to ‘reconnect’ with minorities in Hyderabad: Waliullah
Hyderabad: The Congress is all set to chalk out a new strategy to “re-connect” with minority communities in the city. Hyderabad City Congress Committee (HCCC) minorities department chairman Sameer Waliullah today said…
- Telangana
TS EDCET 2021: Telangana govt offers free online coaching to minority candidates
Hyderabad: Telangana state government has announced that free online coaching will be offered to minority candidates who are going to appear in TS EDCET 2021. The exam is conducted by the Osmania…
- Telangana
KCR not satisfied with the performance of minorities department
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K.Chandrashekhar Rao is not satisfied with the performance of the minorities’ welfare department. He would soon convene a high-level meet. For the past two years, the minorities’ welfare schemes…
- World
UN rights experts ‘extremely alarmed’ by forced organ harvesting in China
Geneva: United Nations (UN) human rights experts have sounded alarm over the reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ that is targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, who are…
- Opinions
Fear factor is being drilled into the minds of minorities
Mohammed Wajihuddin In the course of her continuing friction with the Centre, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee recently used a slightly changed version of a dialogue from the 1970s’ blockbuster Sholay. Exhorting…
- World
Rights organisations speak on India’s ‘worsening religious persecution’
Washington: Dozens of international civil rights organizations and hundreds of individuals have urged the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to recommend to the State Department that it designate India as…
- World
Designate India as ‘Country of Particular Concern’: Indian American Muslim Council to USCIRF
Hyderabad: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been urged by dozens of international civil rights organizations and hundreds of individuals, to recommend the US State Department and designate India…
- World
China urged to stop persecution of Uyghurs, Tibetans
Ottawa: Conservative party of Canada has called on China to stop the persecution of people who practice their religion or belief including Christians, Tibetans and Uyghurs. In a statement issued on the…