New Delhi, April 27 (KMS): More than 100 Indian former civil servants have written an open letter to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, calling for an end to politics of hate practiced assiduously by governments under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The former bureaucrats said in this year …
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Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu, India), April 27 (KMS): As many as 11 persons including two children, were electrocuted during a temple chariot procession in the Thanjavur district in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu when it came into contact with a high tension transmission line, today. Police said the tragic …
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Gandhinagar (Gujarat, India), April 27 (KMS): The government in the Indian state of Gujarat has started demolishing properties they allege are encroachments in Himmatnagar city, where anti-Muslim violence was carried out by Hindutva groups during a procession of Hindu festival, Ram Navami. The Gujarat BJP government’s decision to raze properties …
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New Delhi, April 27 (KMS): The Supreme Court of India came down harshly on the state government of Uttarakhand over the proposed Dharam Sansad by Hindu nationalists in Roorkee city, today. A bench presided by Justice A.M Khanwilkar sought an affidavit from the Chief Secretary explaining what measures are taken …
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Lucknow, April 27 (KMS): The bulldozer politics of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues to wreak havoc on Muslims. The latest victim of the destructive politics is a madarsa at Jamia Ashrafiya in Azamgarh city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The administration in Mubarakpur area of Azamgarh, …
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Yadgir, Karnataka, April 26 (KMS): Six Muslim students in hijab were not allowed entry to examination centre and returned home without taking their Class 12 exams in the Indian state of Karnataka’s Yadgir district. . The students who had come to write their economics exam, requested the authorities to allow …
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Jammu, April 25 (KMS): The visit of Indian President Ram Nath Kovind to Jammu region of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir on April 27 has been postponed. Kovind was coming to Jammu to address the fifth annual convocation of Indian Institute of Management (IIM). “The IIM Jammu was to …
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Washington, D.C., April 26 (KMS): The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s constitutional values of pluralism and tolerance, today welcomed the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) designation of India as a Country of Particular Concern for the third consecutive year. Such …
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Washington D.C., April 26 (KMS): A US watchdog has for the second year running recommended that the State Department should designate India as a “country of particular concern”, a category it uses for countries whose governments engage in “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations” of religious freedoms. The US Commission on …
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New Delhi, April 25 (KMS): The BJP Delhi president Adesh Gupta, who is leading his party’s “bulldozer” campaign against the properties of Rohingyas and Bangladeshi Muslims, has announced his plan for changing Muslim names of 40 villages in the Indian Capital. Adesh Gupta in a press conference in New Delhi …
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