Articles for Hindu Refugees

'Second Independence Day': Matua community in West Bengal celebrates as CAA law gets notified, thank PM Modi
9 months, 1 week ago

'Second Independence Day': Matua community in West Bengal celebrates as CAA law gets notified, thank PM Modi

Op India  

The minorities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan had fled countless atrocities and arrived in India brimming with hope. Today, while West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee opposes CAA and calls the implementation of the Act to be serving the BJP’s ‘political interest’, several communities like the Matuas in south Bengal and Rajbanshis, as well as Namasudras in north Bengal, are …

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CAA: Who Will Benefit -- Pak Hindu Refugees in Delhi, Matuas, Rajbanshis in Bengal? What Changes Now?
9 months, 1 week ago

CAA: Who Will Benefit -- Pak Hindu Refugees in Delhi, Matuas, Rajbanshis in Bengal? What Changes Now?

News 18  

After the delay of four years, the government has finally notified the rules under the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, which will be implemented in the entire country. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, at least 30,000 “persecuted” minorities such as Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, Sikhs and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh could benefit from the CAA. Rajasthan & …

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Hindu refugees from Pakistan face hardships in India, hope for care
1 year, 6 months ago

Hindu refugees from Pakistan face hardships in India, hope for care

Op India  

On Tuesday 16th May 2023, IAS Tina Dabi – District Collector and Magistrate of Jaisalmer district in Rajasthan – ordered the demolition of temporary houses of the Hindu refugees from Pakistan who were living near Jaisalmer. Unlike Muslims – the so-called minorities – in India, these Hindus in Pakistan never enjoyed any normal life let alone special rights and privileges. …

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IAS Tina Dabi assures resettling of Hindu refugees from Pakistan after demolition of their houses in Jaisalmer
1 year, 7 months ago

IAS Tina Dabi assures resettling of Hindu refugees from Pakistan after demolition of their houses in Jaisalmer

Op India  

On Thursday, 18th May 2018, IAS Tina Dabi held a meeting with representatives of the Hindu refugees from Pakistan whose houses were demolished as per her order on Tuesday 16th May 2023. As the controversy over the bulldozer action escalated, today District Collector Tina Dabi held a meeting with Hindu refugees from Pakistan. However, they did not agree, which is …

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Rajasthan: After Jodhpur, homes of Hindu refugees from Pakistan bulldozed in Jaisalmer, women lathi-charged, children left shelterless in scorching heat
1 year, 7 months ago

Rajasthan: After Jodhpur, homes of Hindu refugees from Pakistan bulldozed in Jaisalmer, women lathi-charged, children left shelterless in scorching heat

Op India  

On Tuesday, houses of Hindu families living in the Amar Sagar area in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan were razed to the ground with bulldozers. The videos of the incident were also shared by Swarajya journalist Swati Goel Sharma who said that the poor Dalit Adivasi Hindu refugees from Pakistan were being cruelly treated by the Rajasthan government. Looks like …

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Gujarat: Harsh Sanghvi grants citizenship certificates to Hindu refugees from Pakistan
2 years, 4 months ago

Gujarat: Harsh Sanghvi grants citizenship certificates to Hindu refugees from Pakistan

Op India  

On Monday, August 22, Harsh Sanghavi, Gujarat’s Minister of State for Home, handed over citizenship certificates to several Pakistani Hindu refugees who had come to Ahmedabad years ago and had applied for Indian citizenship. “जहाँ डाल डाल पर सोने की चिड़िया करती है बसेरा वो भारत देश है मेरा” अहमदाबाद जिले में किसी कारणवश कई वर्षो पूर्व स्थानांतरित हुए भारतीय …

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Women's panel launches study on plight of Hindu women refugees living in Delhi's Majnu ka Tila
2 years, 4 months ago

Women's panel launches study on plight of Hindu women refugees living in Delhi's Majnu ka Tila

India Today  

The Delhi Commission for Women has launched a study into the plight of women and child Hindu refugees who have escaped from Pakistan and have been residing in Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi for the past several years. PLIGHT OF HINDU REFUGEES Secluded within a confined zone in Delhi's Majnu Ka Tila, Hindu refugees continue to live in deplorable conditions where …

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No electricity, no water: How Hindu refugees from Pakistan are battling death and diseases in Delhi's Adarsh Nagar
3 years, 1 month ago

No electricity, no water: How Hindu refugees from Pakistan are battling death and diseases in Delhi's Adarsh Nagar

Op India  

Squeezed between the heaps of scrap and drains are the kutcha houses where two hundred families of Hindu refugees from Pakistan have been living in extremely adverse conditions in North Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar colony for over eight years now. The recent decision of the Central government to oppose the Delhi high court petition seeking electricity connections for 200 Pakistani Hindu …

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For the BJP, anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh is an issue in Bengal by-polls
3 years, 1 month ago

For the BJP, anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh is an issue in Bengal by-polls

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: With news channels flashing grainy security camera images of 35-year-old Iqbal Hossain, a resident of Sujanagar in Bangladesh’s Comilla district, and suspected mastermind of the recent attacks on the minority Hindus in the country, a new narrative has come to dominate the politics around the October 30 assembly by-polls in four assembly seats in West Bengal — Dinhata, Santipur, …

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5,000 Pakistani refugees to get COVID jabs in Indore
3 years, 6 months ago

5,000 Pakistani refugees to get COVID jabs in Indore

India TV News  

About 5,000 Pakistani refugees from the Hindu Sindhi community living in Madhya Pradesh's Indore will be administered COVID-19 vaccines, an official said on Sunday. The representatives of the Pakistani refugees from the Hindu Sindhi community had recently requested the administration for anti- coronavirus inoculation, District Immunization Officer Dr Praveen Jadia told PTI. Jadia estimated that about 5,000 Pakistani refugees are …

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