Category: India
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`Cannibal Africans’ targeted by mob in Indian capital
It never happens to a white person in India because Indians have obsession with gori chamdi. But black people, mostly students, are often harassed, looked down upon and taunted. The case of a midnight vigilante raid on African students in a south Delhi locality in January 2014 by the then Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti…
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Two AAP Punjab MLAs denied entry into Canada
Canadian authorities reportedly detained at Ottawa airport on Sunday and then deported to India two MLAs belonging to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab. The two AAP MLAs are Amarjeet Singh Sandoa from Ropar and Kultar Singh Sandhwan from Kotkapura. They were detained at the airport on arrival and then questioned for an hour. They were deported…
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Love jihad: Hindu woman finds that her husband is Muslim
Yet another story related to love jihad – where Muslim men are accused of trapping Hindu girls into marriage – in India is making the headlines. A woman in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh says she discovered after six years of her marriage that her husband is Muslim. “After six years of marriage, I discovered that…
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Water crisis may ruin India
India’s is heading for a big water crisis for its burgeoning population. A report by the country’s planning body – Niti Aayog – says, India stares “the worst water crisis in its history with about 60 crore (600 million) people facing high to extreme water stress and about two lakh (200,000) people dying every year…