minorities
- Pakistan
Over 22 lakh Hindus in Pakistan, says national database report
Peshawar: Pakistan is home to 22,10,566 people from the minority Hindu community, comprising only 1.18 cent of the country’s total registered population of 18,68,90,601, according to a report by the Centre for…
- India
Govt penalised culprits for offensive tweets against minorities: Indian embassy in Kuwait
Kuwait City: India on Sunday told Kuwait that it had taken strong action against those who made controversial remarks on Twitter against the minorities. In response to a media query regarding the…
- India
Run by students, news portal Jamia Times responds to Islamophobia
With the aim of responding to the growing Islamophobia in the country, students of Jamia Milia Islamia University have taken it upon themselves to bring out the voice of the downtrodden and…
- World
UK: Digital trucks used to highlight Hindutva aggression on Indian minorities
At a time when minorities in India are under serious threat from the right-wing extremists, digital trucks across the United Kingdom (UK) displayed messages creating awareness of a predicted genocide of minorities…
- Hyderabad
Caste Census essential for secularism, says Majeedullah Farhat
Hyderabad: Majeedullah Khan Farhat, the head of Majlis Bachao Tahreek, stated that a caste census is essential for India because, without it, anyone from a minority may not become a chief minister…
- India
Decision to notify minorities will be taken after discussion: Centre tells SC
New Delhi: The Ministry of Minority Affairs on Monday told the Supreme Court that the power to notify minorities is vested with the Union government and any decision in this regard will…
- Kerala
On Eid, senior imam speaks about ending communal hatred in Kerala
Amid atrocities in the nation against Muslims, Christians, and other minorities, a senior Muslim Imam has called for the isolation of anyone, regardless of religion or political affiliation, who does anything to…
- India
Religious rights of every section absolutely safe in India, Naqvi assures visiting EU delegation
New Delhi: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told a visiting European Union delegation, including EU special representative for human rights Eamon Gilmore, that constitutional and religious rights of every section are…
- India
Jahangirpuri demolition: Oppn says poor, minorities targeted; BJP calls it legal exercise
New Delhi: Bulldozers razing several structures in violence-hit Jahangirpuri during an anti-encroachment drive triggered political sparring on Wednesday with the Opposition alleging it was a demolition of India’s constitutional values which targeted…
- Telangana
Telangana: Priyanka Gandhi to be invited for public meetings
Hyderabad: The Telangana Party Congress Committee’s (TPCC) minorities department executive committee on Wednesday said that All India Congress Committee general secretary Priyanka Gandhi would be invited to a series of meetings that…
- India
States can declare religious community including Hindus as minority: Centre
New Delhi: State governments can declare any religious or linguistic community, including Hindus, as a minority within the said state, the Centre has told the Supreme Court. The submission was made in response…
- India
Video: Dalit man selling sugarcane juice attacked in Karnataka
Hassan: In a shocking incident, upper-caste Hindus attacked a Dalit man and his son for selling sugarcane juice by the roadside at Arakalagudu in Karnataka’s Hassan district. Konanur police have lodged a…
- India
It is important for Hindus to combat Hindutva: Sunita Vishwanath
It is important for Hindus to combat Hindutva as what is happening in India today is just a “start of genocide”, said Sunita Vishwanath, executive director of Hindus for Human Rights, a…
- India
‘India’s democracy score declined significantly in recent years’
London: The Indian government’s failure to crack down on the persecution of religious and other minorities by Hindu nationalists continues to weigh on the country’s democracy score, which has declined significantly in…
- Opinions
Is The Hindu changing its policy towards minorities?
On Friday (February 4, 2022) when I searched for the story of gun shots that were fired at the vehicle of Asaduddin Owaisi in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh I did not find…
