Browsing Tag: Minorities

Article 30 gives same rights to both religious and linguistic rights but it nowhere says both religious and linguistic minorities must necessarily be determined at the level of state.

In a major initiative, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) which has registered a landslide victory in Pakistan elections, today nominated first Sikh member Ramesh Singh Arora to the provincial assembly.

State government may have distributed financial aid to girls from poor Muslim families under the scheme meant to support their higher education and marriage.... on the occasion of National Girl Child Day on Thursday, but girls of the Sikh community from the economically weaker section protested in the city against not getting the benefit of the scheme.

For the first time four DU colleges are considering reserving 50 per cent of their under-graduate seats for Sikh students.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing conservative party held a politically charged conference Tuesday on ways to strengthen secularism in French society, amid worries it would stigmatize France's millions of Muslims.

In a ray of hope to Gujarat's minorities, chief minister Narendra Modi is learnt to be reconsidering his earlier decision not to provide Government of India-sponsored pre-matriculation scholarship to more than 52,000 students belonging to Muslim, Christian, Parsi, Sikh and Buddhist communities.

Malaysia finds itself on tenterhooks because minority issues have been handled poorly.