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India welcomes persecuted minorities from Afghanistan: First batch of 11 Hindus and Sikhs arrive in Delhi

OpIndia Staff - 27 July, 2020

On Sunday, the first batch of the last remaining Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan landed in India. India is to grant them permanent residency and eventually citizenship.

Media

The Wire and Shashi Tharoor say Muslims have a greater claim on India than Hindus: Why this notion needs to be mocked and dismissed

OpIndia Staff - 26 July, 2020

The Wire columnist claims Muslims have greater claim to India than Hindus because they bury their dead, Shashi Tharoor agrees

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Kerala HC says section 153A cannot be invoked against Hindu leader who wrote about a ‘Church film set’ demolished inside a Temple area: Here...

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2020

Real intention to incite one community against another is absolutely essential to be charged under section 153A of IPC: Kerala HC

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700 Sikhs, Hindus from Afghanistan to be allowed to come and live in India: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 21 July, 2020

Earlier, a 55-year-old Nidan Singh Sachdeva, an Afghan Sikh community leader was abducted by extremist groups and was released after much effort by Indian and Afghan authorities.

Politics

This is why Sharad Pawar is attacking Ram Temple at Ayodhya and Narendra Modi

Ajay Sudame - 20 July, 2020

NCP leader Sharad Pawar on Sunday attacked PM Modi for his upcoming visit to Ayodhya for Ram Mandir Bhumi Pujan

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Andhra Pradesh: Locals write to NHRC after state authorities fail to act against illegal church construction in Kadapa

OpIndia Staff - 11 July, 2020

District authorities ignore illegal church construction evicting SC families from their homes, locals write to NHRC

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Muslims hurled abuses and casteist slurs, attacked us with sharp weapons: Mahadalits in Begusarai

OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2020

Victim Shankar Paswan claimed that members of Muslim community addressed Mahadalits with casteist slurs before attacking them with weapons

Culture and History

Nindāstuti: A Dharmic Paradigm of Devotion through Apparent Censure

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 7 July, 2020

Nindāstuti is a form of Shleshakavya - a poetic composition that is laden with double-entendres and is looked upon as a form of Dvesha-bhakti

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Pakistan: After destroying under construction walls, radical Islamists recite Azan at proposed Hindu temple site

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

The plot was allocated by the Islamabad city development authority to the local Hindu community to build a temple, the first Hindu temple in the Pakistani capital city.

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