Searched for
PUNJAB MINORITY VIOLENCE
Nihang-police standoff in Uttarakhand ends, group returns to Himachal after talksTension at the Himachal Pradesh-Uttarakhand border eased as a group of Nihangs, who had pushed through barricades en route to Hemkund Sahib...
Tensions at Uttarakhand border as Nihang Sikhs breach barricades, head towards Hemkund SahibTension flared at the Himachal Pradesh-Uttarakhand border as Nihang Sikhs clashed with police, breaching barricades at Kulhal to proceed to...
Punjab CM Mann calls twin blasts 'minor', blames BJP for creating atmosphere of fearPunjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann accused the BJP of orchestrating minor blasts in Amritsar and Jalandhar to create fear and influence up...
Convert or suffer: Pakistan's Christian and Hindu children trapped in forced conversions and child labour ringsA new report by Pakistan's National Commission on the Rights of the Child reveals widespread discrimination against Christian and Hindu chi...
Over 100 arrested, probe ordered in attacks on churches and homes of Christians in PakistanOver 100 people, including activists of the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), have been taken into custody over attacks on ...
Tale of Two Punjabs: Contrasting fate of Sikhs on either side of the Indo-Pak borderThe partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 led to Sikhs being uprooted and displaced, with most migrating to India while a minority remain...
Remove content glorifying weapons within 72 hours: Punjab PolicePolice have been registering FIRs against people for violating orders after the state government had banned on November 13 public display o...
India condemns attack on Nankana Sahib Gurudwara in Pakistan“We are concerned at the vandalism carried out at the revered Nankana Sahib Gurdwara today. Members of the minority Sikh community have bee...
US Congressional Commission's hearing on Kashmir nearly fizzles out"India is not just a 70-year-old nation that you see. India is a 5,000-year-old civilisation. There is no Kashmir without India. There is n...
Pakistan’s Christian community languishes as Imran Khan government busy on KashmirBesides false blasphemy cases, Christians in Pakistan are often at the receiving end of forced conversions, with girls abducted and forced ...
India witnessed religiously motivated killings in 2015: USThe State Department said religious groups expressed concern about statements by certain government officials suggesting Hinduism should be...
US panel views on minorities based on lack of understanding of India: GovernmentIndia today dismissed allegations made during a US Congressional Commission briefing that "violence" against minorities was taking place af...
Supreme Court declines to hear plea on communal clash in FaridabadThe Sc today declined to entertain a plea seeking a CBI or SIT probe into the recent alleged attacks on members of a minority community.
Amnesty International asks Pakistan to protect minority communities"This vicious mob killing is just the latest manifestation of the threat of vigilante violence which anyone can face in Pak," said Griffith...
Blasphemy: Mob attacks Ahmadis, kills woman, 2 girls in PakistanThe violence erupted in Lahore, after claims that a Ahmadi youth, had posted a photo containing blasphemous content, said Amir Mahmood
- Communal violence bill may be introduced in Budget session
The controversial Communal violence bill is likely to be introduced in the ongoing budget session of the parliament.
- Trinamool joins NDA, non-UPA states in opposing Communal Violence Bill
The proposed Communal Violence Bill on Saturday ran into trouble with NDA-ruled states and Congress ally Trinamool Congress opposing it.
- Another Pak minister gunned down by Taliban militants
Pakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a vocal opponent of the controversial blasphemy law, was on Wednesday gunned down by T...
- 16 years of terror snuffed out 40,000 lives in J&K
Cross-border terrorism and the Pakistan-sponsored proxy war had claimed the lives of over 40,000 people in the past 16 years in Jammu and K...
- Govt to fight communalism in all forms: PM
Sending a tough message in the run-up to UP assembly polls, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said "communalism" and "sectarianism"...