Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Topic: Minorities in India

Row over Kolkata Mayor’s remark exposes grim realities of Muslims in West Bengal

The debate over Muslims as a minority community in India gained renewed attention when Kolkata’s Mayor, Firhad Hakim, made a controversial statement during an...

“A terrible remark to make, PM Modi must apologise,”: Amartya Sen on Modi’s remarks about Muslims as “infiltrators”

Renowned economist and Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen, in an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologise to Muslim citizens in India for calling them 'Infiltrators'.

Antony Blinken raises ‘concerning increase’ in hate speech, demolition, anti-conversion laws in India

In a rare admission, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday acknowledged the sliding religious freedom in India while unveiling the state...