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For Prime Minister Modi and for India, Bangladesh is not merely just another neighbouring country. It is a land which he has visited himself and which has an old connection. (Representational image: AP)

Jasim Mohammad | How Modi stayed statesmanlike despite attacks on Hindus in Bangla

The minority population such as Hindus would not be safe under the rule of the Awami League, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

30 Oct 2021 7:45 AM

Religion must be considered pan-India: SC dismisses plea on Hindus as minorities

The plea challenged the validity of the Centre's 26-year-old notification declaring five communities as minorities.

17 Dec 2019 12:04 PM

Former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice-Chancellor Lt General (retired) Zameer Uddin Shah has said that Muslims should hand over the disputed land at Ayodhya to Hindus for the sake of lasting peace in the country. (Photo: ANI)

Muslims should gift Ayodhya land to Hindus for peace: Former AMU VC

Several other prominent personalities were also present at the event including Padma Shri Mansoor Hasan.

11 Oct 2019 8:52 AM

Outlining the atrocities against Hindus, a minority in the neighboring nation, and the atrocities against them, BJP lawmaker Kirodi Lal Meena submitted the notice in the Upper House. (Photo: File)

BJP MP's Zero Hour notice in RS over forced conversion of Hindus in Pakistan

The move comes after Hindus and Sikhs gathered in Jacobabad, Pakistan, to protest against the forced conversion of Hindu girls.

16 Jul 2019 2:13 PM

In a separate video, the minor girls can be seen saying that they accepted Islam of their own free will. (File Photo)

Imran Khan orders probe into forced conversion, marriages of 2 Hindu girls

The two girls, Raveena (13) and Reena (15), were allegedly kidnapped by a group of 'influential' men from their home.

24 Mar 2019 1:14 PM

The minister was quoted by Samaa news agency, during a press conference last month, where he referred to the Hindus as 'cow urine-drinking people'. (Photo: ANI)

Pak PM slams his minister for calling Hindus 'cow urine drinking people'

Imran Khan's party PTI said that derogatory anti-Hindu remarks by minister won't be tolerated.

05 Mar 2019 9:37 AM

Citizenship Bill is bad in spirit, withdraw it

In Assam, intense protests engulfed the state since the Joint Parliamentary Committee headed by a BJP MP began public hearings on the bill a week ago.

15 May 2018 12:23 AM

In Sri Lanka, the mostly Buddhist Sinhala speakers fought Lanka’s Tamils over religion and language. In India we wonder how Buddhists and Hindus can hate each other but that is the nature of majoritarianism. (Representational image)

Majoritarianism is never inclusive

The first few decades of Congress rule hid the fact that we Indians are also like our brothers in Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

22 Apr 2018 12:55 AM

The remarks by Banwari Lal Singhal, an MLA from Alwar, in a Facebook post come ahead of a bypoll to the Alwar parliamentary seat on January 29. (Photo: Facebook)

Muslims will outnumber Hindus by 2030: Rajasthan BJP MLA

Banwari Lal Singhal alleges that Hindus will become secondary citizens if Muslims become lawmakers.

02 Jan 2018 8:26 AM

The apex court asked the petitioner to approach the National Commission for Minorities. (Photo: PTI/File)

SC says no to plea seeking minority status for Hindus in 8 states

The plea was filed by Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.

10 Nov 2017 12:51 PM

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat said, 'The term 'Hindu' covers all those who are the sons of 'Bharat Mata' (Mother India), descendants of Indian ancestors and who live in accordance with the Indian culture.' (Photo: File | PTI)

Hindustan is a country of Hindus but doesn't exclude others: RSS Chief

Mohan Bhagwat said, 'In 'Kalyuga' people look to the government... But the fact is, the government can go only as far as the society goes.'

28 Oct 2017 4:40 PM

On Sunday, Myanmar's army said it had discovered two mud pits filled with 28 Hindu corpses (Photo:AFP)

Hindus recount massacre in Myanmar as mass graves unearthed

The military's sweeping reprisal has left hundreds dead and sent nearly half a million Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh.

27 Sep 2017 3:41 PM

RSS had no role in Hyderabad’s liberation

The BJP’s only power base is in the old city of Hyderabad, which is the political domain of the MIM, its mortal enemy.

13 Sep 2017 1:59 AM

In this Aug. 12, 2017, workers stand around a giant saw installation that is cutting through a brick wall at the Partition Museum that is set to open later this week in Amritsar, India, 32 kilometres from border with Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

India opens first Partition museum 70 years after bloody event

A new museum on the Partition of the Indian subcontinent will soon open its doors.

15 Aug 2017 2:17 PM

where the Lahore lunatic Bishan Singh stands in no man’s land between India and Pakistan, confused as to what to call home, is not so far from the truth.

Tales of parting from the midnight hour

Seventy years from Indian Independence, we speak to those who experienced the first taste of freedom and upheavals of Partition.

15 Aug 2017 12:00 AM

Many communities in Nepal view menstruating women as impure and in some remote areas they are forced to sleep in a hut away from home during their periods, a custom known as chhaupadi. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Nepal criminalises isolation of menstruating women after teen’s death

The new law stipulates a three-month jail sentence or a 3,000 rupee fine, or both, for anyone forcing a woman to follow the custom.

10 Aug 2017 12:55 PM

An untold number of people -- some estimates say up two million -- died in the savage violence that followed (Photo: AP)

Hindus killed Muslims, they are to be blamed for 1947 partition: Pakistan text books

August marks 70 years since the subcontinent was divided into two independent states -- Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

04 Aug 2017 3:46 PM

Pak media says ‘forced’ conversion has led to immigration of Hindus from Pakistan

The majority of the Hindu population is settled in Sindh and the province has witnessed a rise in crimes targeting the religious minority.

21 Jun 2017 5:07 PM

Anti-Romeo squad of police detaining a youth in Lucknow. (Photo: PTI/File)

When hate wins, everybody loses

The days of simply being a Hindu are over, now you must be a “proud Hindu” — or face consequences.

10 May 2017 12:19 AM

Minister of Home Affairs of India Kiren Rijiju. (Photo: PTI/File)

Hindu population reducing in India, minorities flourishing: Rijiju

Citing the reason behind 'reducing' population of Hindus, Rijiju said they 'never convert people'.

13 Feb 2017 3:17 PM

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