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Akola, Dec 15 (UNI) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has lodged a strong protest against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over an incident in which the hijab of a Muslim woman doctor was allegedly removed during an official function in Patna. NCP state organisational secretary Javed Zakaria condemned the Chief Minister's conduct, describing it as unacceptable and insensitive. The incident reportedly occurred during a government programme at which Nitish Kumar was distributing appointment l ...Read More >
The Jharkhand unit of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) criticised the repeal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), 2005, on Monday, calling the move to introduce a new law in its place "an insult to the Mahatma". "Today in Parliament, a proposal was moved to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, and a decision was taken to create a new law as the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Aajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G). The ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram/Kochi, Oct 15 (PTI) Kerala General Education Minister V Sivankutty on Wednesday softened his stance on a dispute over a class eight student's right to wear hijab at a Church-run public school in Kochi, saying the matter was best settled through consensus at the school level. "If there is already a consensus on the issue, let it end there," the minister said, even as the school management defended its authority to ensure equality among students in terms of uniforms. The manag ...Read More >
On M.K. Gandhi's 157th birth anniversary, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for releasing a stamp and a commemorative coin to mark the RSS centenary, and urged everyone to take a pledge to revive the nation from such a "shameful" situation. "On Gandhi's birth anniversary, everyone should take a pledge to revive India from a shameful situation, where the person holding the highest office is releasing a stamp and commemorative coin on the centenary ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 2 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday condemned the release of special postage stamp and commemorative coin marking the centenary celebrations of RSS, and said India should be rescued from the "pitiful state" of celebrating an organisation, which shaped the thinking of a communal element who assassinated the Mahatma. Paying floral tributes to a portrait of Gandhi on his jayanthi here today, the Chief Minister said India is a secular country and Mahatma Gandhi sow ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's interim order staying certain provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 and said that the top court's ruling is a "win" for the constitutional values of justice, equality, and fraternity. In a post on X, the Congress General Secretary (Communications) said that the interim order represents a substantial victory not just for the parties that opposed but also for all those members ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Protesters in Nepal ousted the prime minister and set parliament ablaze over the government's ban on social media and corruption allegations, but in India the violence is being misrepresented online as something else entirely: a religious uprising. While some claim that the demonstrations are a demand for a "Hindu state", others say the opposite -- that they are an attack on the faith. Fuelling the narrative are allegations from Indian broadcasters and politicians that rioters vanda ...Read More >
New Delhi (AsiaNews) - Nepal is India's third neighbour to see a youth-led uprising successfully overthrow the country's government. The first one was in Sri Lanka in 2022 and the second in Bangladesh in 2024. For New Delhi there is an added concern since the Himalayan country borders China's Western Theatre Command, which represents a direct route to the Indo-Gangetic plains. India and Nepal share an open border of more than 1,750 kilometres, and ties between their peoples run deep, with some ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], August 2 (ANI): The Left Democratic Front (LDF) has announced statewide protest gatherings across all 140 assembly constituencies in Kerala on August 3 and 4, in response to the arrest of two Kerala nuns in Chhattisgarh on charges of human trafficking and religious conversion. The nuns, Sister Vandana Francis and Sister Preethy Mary, were arrested by police at Durg Railway Station in Chhattisgarh on July 25. Condemning the arrests, CPI(M) State Secretary MV ...Read More >
Patna, Aug 1 (PTI) Healthcare services were affected at AIIMS-Patna on Friday as resident doctors went on an "indefinite strike" in protest against the alleged high-handedness of Sheohar MLA Chetan Anand. According to a press statement issued by the Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), AIIMS-Patna, on Friday, "The RDA expresses deep disappointment and anguish over the lack of action by the administration following the violent and traumatic incident that occurred on Wednesday, when MLA Chetan An ...Read More >
Shillong [Meghalya] [India], August 1 (ANI): Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Friday wrote a letter to Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai over the arrest of two Kerala nuns, saying religious persecution of any kind has no place in a democratic and secular nation. The CM Sangma condemned the arrest and demanded the withdrawal of the false case. The nuns from Kerala, Sister Vandana Francis and Sister Preethy Mary, were arrested at Durg Railway Station in Chhattisgarh on July 25 for allege ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 19: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has asserted that India remains a secular nation where minorities enjoy full freedom and protection, because of the Hindu majority. In an interview with PTI Videos, the Minister for Minority Affairs said he has not encountered a single instance where a minority individual expressed a desire to leave the country due to any form of deprivation or discrimination. Rijiju also criticised what he described as a continuous campaign led by "the Left ecos ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 19: India is a secular nation and minorities are safest in this country, Union minister Kiren Rijiju has said, asserting that minorities are enjoying absolute freedom and protection because of the Hindu majority. In an interview with news agency, the Minority Affairs Minister said he has not come across a single case where a member of the minority community is willing to migrate out of India because of being deprived of anything in the country. He accused "the Left ecosystem bac ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 19 (PTI) India is a secular nation and minorities are safest in this country, Union minister Kiren Rijiju has said, asserting that minorities are enjoying absolute freedom and protection because of the Hindu majority. In an interview with PTI Videos, the Minority Affairs Minister said he has not come across a single case where a member of the minority community is willing to migrate out of India because of being deprived of anything in the country. He accused "the Left ecosystem ...Read More >
Muzaffarnagar (UP), Jul 2 (PTI) Police have summoned six people for conducting unauthorised verification of the identities of eatery owners along the Kanwar Yatra route, officials said on Wednesday after a video surfaced on social media showing some individuals allegedly misbehaving with the staff of a 'dhaba'. The six people are said to be associates of Swami Yashveer Maharaj, who runs the Yoga Sadhana Yashveer Ashram in Baghra which has conducted "ghar wapsi" (conversion to Hinduism) ceremoni ...Read More >
Moradabad, Jul 2 (PTI) Former Samajwadi Party MP S T Hasan on Wednesday condemned the alleged religious profiling of eatery owners along the Kanwar Yatra route in Uttarakhand by some Hindu outfits, calling the act a "form of terrorism." The remarks came amid reports that members of certain Hindu organisations were allegedly checking the identities of eatery owners and staff, and targeting individuals suspected to be Muslims in several Uttarakhand cities. Purported videos circulating on social m ...Read More >
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