The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans a "long march to Dhaka" on Monday to protest against reported atrocities on religious minorities in Bangladesh and express solidarity with protestors demanding death penalty for those convicted of war crimes. ...
04:30 AM, Mar 18, 2013
A month after quitting the Rajya Sabha seat as well as the JD(U)'s primary membership, senior leader Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday launched political party Rashtriya Lok Samata Party with a pledge to oust the NDA government in Bihar. ...
07:50 PM, Mar 03, 2013
The Maharashtra State Minorities Commission chief Munaf Hakim has reportedly written a letter to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde asking for the Parbhani, Nanded and Jalna blast cases to be handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). ...
02:32 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Rubbishing allegations of negligence being meted out towards the minority community, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the state government had already completed nearly 90 per cent of the recommendations made by Sachar Committee for their welfare. ...
03:20 AM, Jan 19, 2013
Ramzan Hafiz has lived at Nallasopara in Thane, Maharashtra for two decades now. Official documents with the municipality and his ration card call the area Laxmi Nagar. But the state electricity board, he points out, has decided to call it 'Laden Nagar', after slain terrorist Osama Bin Laden. ...
07:52 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Egyptian voters overwhelmingly approved a drafted by President Mohamed Mursi's allies, results announced on December 26 showed, proving that liberals, leftists and Christians have been powerless to halt the march of Islamists in power. ...
12:55 PM, Dec 26, 2012
New Delhi: Backing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks on the plight of minorities in Gujarat, JD(U) on Monday said there are "serious reservation in the minds of minorities concerning Narendra Modi." Stepping up the Congress campaign in Gujarat, Singh had told an election rally there on Sunday that minorities, including some government officials, felt insecure under the Modi government. "Election campaign is going on in the state. It is true...
04:31 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Navsari: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh entered battleground Gujarat on Sunday and while addressing his first election rally before the upcoming elections, called for an end to the divide and rule politics in the state. Hitting out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister said that the minorities do not feel safe in Gujarat. "Congress has always attempted to bring people of all communities together. Politics of dividing people...
01:18 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Islamabad: Authorities must apologise to the Hindu community for demolishing a temple in Karachi and hurting their sentiments, a Pakistani daily said on Wednesday. An editorial in the Dawn said the demolition of a Hindu temple in Karachi's Garden area on Saturday raises disturbing questions and is "a prime example of the callous attitude that officialdom often has towards this country's non-Muslim citizens". "The authorities need to uncover the facts...
11:24 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Aligarh: Kapil Sibal, minister for HRD, Communications and IT on Saturday said that the Muslim community in India was at the "bottom of the pile" as far as healthcare was concerned. "It is unfortunate, but health parameters indicate that the Muslim community in India are at the bottom of the pile. We face great challenges in the field of health. Our health services in rural areas are inadequate, availability of...
10:53 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), Wajahat Habibullah on Sunday took on Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for his remarks against Muslims in the state in an interview. Gogoi, in an interview to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, blamed illiteracy amongst Muslims for their population growth. Saying that the reason for the growth of Muslim population in the state was more local than external, the...
10:51 AM, Sep 09, 2012
Islamabad: Following a special directive from Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, a three-member team met Hindu community leaders in Sindh province after reports of a mass exodus of people from their community to India. Meanwhile, the country's Human Rights Commission is also outraged at the continued exodus of minorities from Sindh and Balochistan provinces. While the Indian High Commission and Pakistan's Interior Ministry have denied reports of around 250 Hindus...
01:30 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: A total of 325 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants are likely to be affected if the quashing of 4.5 percent sub-quota for minorities in central institutions was not stayed, the government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji told this to the apex court bench of Justice K Radhakrishnan and Justice JS Khehar. The court issued notice on the government's plea and declined...
12:23 PM, Jun 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear the Centre's plea in the sub-quota for minorities issue. The apex court had on Monday refused to stay the Andhra Pradesh High Court order quashing the 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities within the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in central educational institutions and posted the matter for hearing on Wednesday. The Centre on Tuesday placed before the Supreme Court...
07:37 AM, Jun 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre on June 12 placed before the Supreme Court the "relevant" materials and documents on the basis of which it carved out 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in the central educational institutions such as IITs. Additional solicitor General Gourab Banerji mentioned the issue and placed the documents before a bench comprising justice K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar, which on June 11 had asked the...
12:39 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is likely to move Supreme Court on the minority sub-quota issue on Monday challenging Andhra Pradesh High Court order annulling its decision to carve out 4.5 per cent reservation for minorities from within the OBC quota. Minority Affairs Ministry has moved a reference to the Law Ministry on the issue. "Attorney General GE Vahanvati will look at it on Monday," Union Minister for Law and Minority...
08:26 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...
09:44 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Maintaining that its stand has been vindicated on the Muslim quota issue, BJP on Monday welcomed the Andhra Pradesh High Court's decision to quash 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities within the OBC reservations. "When these reservations were announced we had clearly said it is against the Constitution," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters in reply to a question. A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High...
09:08 PM, May 28, 2012
Hyderabad: A Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh on Monday struck down the office memorandum issued by the Central government creating a sub-quota for religious minorities out of the existing 27 per cent reservation for the other backward classes (OBCs). The Bench, comprising Chief Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, declared that this action of the Central government was based upon religious lines and...
04:41 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Making a conscious effort to shed his pro-Hindutva image, yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday shared the dais with Muslim leaders and announced he would launch a struggle to support their demand for amending article 341 that excludes Muslim and Christian Dalits from the ambit of reservation. Ramdev also announced that he would launch protests against the government demanding bringing back black money stashed away in foreign countries and...
03:40 AM, May 13, 2012
