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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: minorities

SC seeks govt reply on transfer plea against granting minority status to 5 communities

The plea states that Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsee communities enjoy benefits meant for minorities even in those states where they are in majority.

Coronavirus most likely to disproportionately kill children of minorities in US, says CDC

CDC report says three out of four Covid fatalities in US were of Hispanic, Black, American Indian or Alaskan descent, while 121 of those who died by July were under the age of 21.

Jamia centre at heart of Sudarshan News ‘UPSC jihad’ row has coached 500+ govt officers

Jamia UPSC centre is one of five facilities set up by govt between 2009 and 2010 to provide underprivileged communities with free residential coaching for the civil services.

Indian Muslims and liberals are trapped in a toxic relationship

Muslims love Hindu liberals conditionally, and together they hate the microscopic Muslim liberals unconditionally.

In Imran Khan’s Naya Pakistan, a minority commission without minority

Imran Khan’s attacks on India over its treatment of the Muslim minority stand blunted, considering his own govt’s poor track record on minorities in Pakistan.

Modi critics decry India mistreating minorities but mustn’t whitewash Pakistan’s Islamisation

‘Muslims should go to Pakistan’ is not better than Modi’s ‘Hindus have no place in Pakistan’, and is unlikely to contribute to a better world.

BJP claims CAA helps Dalits. But lives of Jogendra Nath Mandal & Ambedkar say otherwise

Ambedkar and Mandal resigned from Indian and Pakistani cabinets in 1950-51. Their letters hold the key to understanding the debate around CAA and BJP's push for it.

With Sikhs, minorities and 37% women in fray, Canada’s election is a diverse free-for-all

In an interview, political scientist Amanda Bittner explains why this is an historic election for Canada and how the multiparty system affects outcomes.

For Pakistan’s own good, it should stop worrying about Indian Muslims

Seventy-two years after Partition, Pakistan continues to define itself through India.

Minorities in India feel safe but those in Pakistan worry about their well being: Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh says Pakistan has no moral authority to raise the issue of human rights violation in the UN and should first look at what is happening in its own country.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.