There is also reported increase in the kidnapping of young Hindu girls in the age group of 10-16 who are compelled to convert to Islam. ...

A State Human Rights Commission would play a key role in checking rights violations like honour killings and attacks on Dalits in Haryana. ...

Kashmiri Hindus or Pandits fled the valley en-masse in 1990s. More than 350000 of them fled the valley and are settled in many cities and towns around the ...

The 60000-strong Sikh community is the single largest minority group in the valley after Hindus fled in early 1990s when the armed separatist war backed by ...

Scores of activists of Panun Kashmir, an organisation of Kashmiri Pandits or Hindus of the Kashmir Valley who settled outside it, Wednesday held a ...

Representatives of Kashmiri Pandit migrants too attended the dialogue. “In the time to come, Kashmiri youth will lead the nation in different spheres,” he ...

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 16 (ANI): The Human Rights Party of Malaysia (HRP) aims to emerge as an alternative platform for the Malay Indian community to help uplift ...

I wholeheartedly condemn all human rights violations committed in Kashmir; and I demand that culprits must be punished for their crimes. ...

Kashmiri Hindus expressed their joy over the involvement of both Muslims and Sikhs. “After 20 years, I have seen such rush at the temple which used to be ...

The lawyer of the woman, whose husband was a Hindu before his conversion, argued before the court Monday that “it is about family life”. ...

We spoke for Dalits, women and Muslims. We are speaking for Christians too.” Amidst admission by the ruling parties that the new constitution would not be ...

... Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, told Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah that the manuscripts needed to be shifted out of Kashmir for fear of the tribal invasion and that ...

A vast majority of them left Kashmir and settled in Jammu and its adjoining areas. Currently, there are 34000 Kashmiri Pandit families registered as ...

In such a scenario, a Dalit family presiding over an Uttar Pradesh temple for ages is nothing short of exemplary. It's only Dalits who have been priests of ...

The three victims had entered the wildlife park to cut grass, a precarious means of livelihood for many Dalits. The government tried to cover up the ...

According to Hindu mythology, it is believed that on Magh Purnima, which is the full moon in the month of Magh (January-February), bathing in the Ganga ...

There are around two million ethnic Indians in Malaysia, says a report on human rights violations against the ethnic Indian minority, prepared under the ...

... according to New Delhi-based Human Rights Features. Among the worst hit were the Hindu-dominated areas in Barisal, Bhola, Pirojpur, Satkhira, Jessore, ...

But other communities - Hindus other than Kashmiri Pandits, as well as Muslims - are angry that there is no such job provision for them. ...

On July 19, Uthayakumar launched a new political party called the Human Rights Party which he said would champion the rights of the marginalised people in ...

It was hearing a lawsuit by the central government challenging a Gujarat High Court judgement of 2006 ordering demolition of several places of worship of ...

Patna, July 24 (IANS) A middle-aged Dalit woman, her son and his friend were allegedly abused and beaten by upper caste men in a Bihar village for listening ...

Kuala Lumpur, July 11 (ANI): A Malaysian High Court has ruled that passport of Hindraf leader P. Uthayakumar be returned to him, revising a Session Court’s ruling made in December 2007. The Court also lowered his bail to 10,000 ringgitts. High ...

Thaindian.comGive non-Malays privileges at par with Malays: Indian legislatorThaindian.com... Force (Hindraf), which was banned after it staged a protest rally in November 2007 to highlight the grievances of Malaysia's two million population of ...