West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks during the Budget Session of State Legislative Assembly, in Kolkata on February 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Refuting allegations of “minority appeasement”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) launched a scathing attack on the Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly … Read more
Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor Naima Khatoon arrives at the Supreme Court on November 8, 2024 ahead of the top court’s verdict in the case related to granting minority status to the university. | Photo Credit: PTI A wave of celebration pervaded Aligarh Muslim University after the Supreme Court judgment on Friday (November 8, 2024) affirmed … Read more
Aligarh Muslim University Campus. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Supreme Court overrules 1967 verdict holding that since AMU was central university it cannot be considered minority institution. A seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Friday (November 8, 2024) delivered four separate judgements in the Aligarh Muslim University minority status case. There are three … Read more
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suffered an unexpected blow on Wednesday when the small party helping keep his minority Liberal government in power withdrew its automatic support, forcing him to attempt new alliances to govern. Promising to continue governing and pushing through social programs, Trudeau dismissed talk of early elections after the left-leaning New Democratic … Read more
Bikaner BJP Minority Morcha district president Usman Ghani, who expressed displeasure with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks in Rajasthan, was on Wednesday expelled from the party for “tarnishing” its image. Ghani, while talking to a news channel recently in New Delhi, had said that the BJP was going to lose three-four Lok Sabha seats … Read more
Minority leaders from Kadapa formally being inducted into the TDP in the presence of party president N. Chandrababu Naidu recently. The recent induction of influential leaders belonging to the Muslim minority community into the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is likely to tilt the balance in its favour in Kadapa Assembly constituency. The Muslim vote bank … Read more
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin | Photo Credit: VEDHAN M Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, on Saturday, February 17, 2024, said the State government would grant life-time recognition to minority educational institutions in Tamil Nadu. Addressing a meeting of the Tamil Nadu Minorities Welfare Board, he said this had been a long-pending demand … Read more
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
Charging the Jharkhand Government with not doing enough for the weaver community, which is predominantly Muslim, Manzoor Ahmad Ansari, the All India Momin Conference chief, has said the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress coalition should not take the community’s votes for granted. Mr. Ansari made these comments in the presence of senior State Congress leaders and … Read more
Data shows ethnic minorities are no longer more likely to die from the virus than white people . Source link