Covid: Lack of trust in government adversely affected minorities – Badenoch

Covid: Lack of trust in government adversely affected minorities – Badenoch

Ms Badenoch added that “within ethnic minority populations there is a very high level of first-generation immigrants who come from countries where people don’t trust the government, and there is no reason to assume that just because the government is saying something, that they will take it as verifiable information that they have to act … Read more

BRS govt. gave boost to educational opportunities for minorities: Mahmood Ali

BRS govt. gave boost to educational opportunities for minorities: Mahmood Ali

Minister for Home Affairs Mohammed Mahmood Ali said that the Chief Minister’s Overseas Scholarship Scheme for Minorities opened up new educational opportunities for minorities. Around 3,300 minority students from the State are studying in various higher educational institutions abroad, he said. Speaking at minorities’ Athmeeya Sammelanam held at the BRS party office in Hanamkonda on … Read more

YSRCP rule is a bane for BCs, SCs, STs and minorities, says Atchannaidu

YSRCP rule is a bane for BCs, SCs, STs and minorities, says Atchannaidu

TDP State president K. Atchannaidu | Photo Credit: G N RAO Telugu Desam Party (TDP) State president K. Atchannaidu ridiculed the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP)’s ‘Saamaajika Saadhikaara Yatra’, saying that the last four-and-a-half years of its rule was a bane for the BCs, SCs, STs and minorities in the State, and said that the YSRCP … Read more

Congress minorities declaration to suggest ₹5,000 crore for minority welfare

Congress minorities declaration to suggest ₹5,000 crore for minority welfare

File picture of Congress senior leader and TPCC minorities declaration draft committee chairman Mohammed Ali Shabbir | Photo Credit: K.V. Ramana Congress senior leader and TPCC minorities declaration draft committee chairman Mohammed Ali Shabbir said that the minorities declaration of Congress would guarantee the empowerment of minorities in Telangana with an allocation of ₹5,000 crore … Read more

TS government likely to implement financial assistance to minorities in phased manner 

TS government likely to implement financial assistance to minorities in phased manner 

The State government is reportedly contemplating to implement the economic support scheme for minorities envisaging a one time grant of ₹1 lakh grant each to beneficiaries in a phased manner. The government is learnt to have decided to confine the benefit to around 30,000 people during the current financial year and a budget release order … Read more

TDP betrayed Dalits, OBCs and minorities: Chinta Mohan

TDP betrayed Dalits, OBCs and minorities: Chinta Mohan

Former Union Minister staging a protest demanding scholarships to students on the campus of Dravidian University at Kuppam in Chittoor district on Monday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Senior Congress leader Chinta Mohan said that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh have turned the party into … Read more

Demand raised in Lok Sabha for restoring pre-matric scholarship, Maulana Azad Fellowship for minorities

Demand raised in Lok Sabha for restoring pre-matric scholarship, Maulana Azad Fellowship for minorities

AIMIM MP Syed Imitiaz Jaleel | Photo Credit: Twitter/@imtiaz_jaleel Two Parliamentarians demanded in Lok Sabha that the pre-matric scholarship and Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority students be restored, saying how will the country progress if the minority community is left behind. The Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority students pursuing higher education has been scrapped while … Read more

Minorities Bore the Brunt of U.S. COVID Deaths

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Oct. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has hit minority groups in the United States hard, with significantly more deaths among Black and Hispanic Americans compared with white and Asian Americans, a new study finds. According to the report, these disparities highlight the need to … Read more