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Three Shias killed in Pakistani Punjab

Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 22:56

Unidentified gunmen on Saturday shot dead three Shias, including an imam, in two separate attacks in Pakistan`s Punjab province, triggering protests by members of the minority community.

Xinjiang military chief punished after Beijing attack: Report

Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 15:14

China`s Communist Party has expelled the military commander of Xinjiang from its ranks, state media reported on Sunday.

Pass marks enough for minority students to get scholarship

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 18:43

The Uttarakhand government on Friday extended scholarship to all minority community students who secure pass marks, removing the earlier criterion of 50 per cent marks for availing the benefits.

New `air touch` technology to bring `Minority Report` system closer to reality

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 15:00

Taiwan`s nonprofit technology institute is reportedly working on a new i-Air Touch (iAT) technology that could possibly bring the holographic operating system in `Minority Report` closer to reality.

Uighur group fears `crackdown` after Tiananmen crash

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 14:57

An overseas Uighur rights group fears a "fierce state crackdown" by China on the largely Muslim ethnic minority after Monday`s car crash at Tiananmen Square, it said on Wednesday.

Laws to deal with communal riots inadequate: Rahman Khan

Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 19:44

Noting that Muzaffarnagar riots have underlined inadequacies in existing laws to deal with such clashes, Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan on Monday pitched for introduction of the Communal Violence Bill in Winter Session of Parliament.

Iraq violence including Baghdad car bomb kills 19

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 19:31

A car bomb near an ice-cream shop in Baghdad killed 12 people on Saturday, while seven died in other attacks, officials said, bringing the October death toll to more than 420.

Gujarat lawyer made chairman of AICC minority cell

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 17:25

Khurshid Ahmed Saiyed, an advocate from Gujarat, was on Saturday made the Chairman of the Minority Department of the AICC.

Congress did nothing for farmers, minority: Mulayam

Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 22:04

The BJP and Congress will lead in the "excessive" use of money power in the next Lok Sabha polls but will still fail to get a majority, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav claimed on Friday.

Muzaffarnagar riots: Minority panel submits report to Centre

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 12:30

The National Commission for Minorities has submitted its report into the communal violence in Muzaffarnagar to the Union government.

BJP woos minority community for its presence at Narendra Modi`s rally in Delhi

Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2013, 22:27

Leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the rally featuring Narendra Modi, the party`s prime ministerial candidate, gets a good response, Delhi BJP on Friday tried to woo the members of the Muslim community, requesting them to attend the public meeting in large numbers.

Digvijay is now interested in buying and selling of ‘burqas’: BJP

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 19:34

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday took a jibe at Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh after he alleged that 10,000 burqas were purchased from Indore ahead of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi`s rally in Madhya Pradesh.