By Matters India reporter Thrissur: Federal Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has described culture of harmony, unity and tolerance as India’s DNA. Naqvi said this on December 27 while opening the grand Christmas celebration at Thrissur in Kerala, southern India. ‘Buon Natale’ (‘Merry Christmas), is aContinue Reading
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Panaji: Goa is plunging into a “new and ever-greater form of intolerance” which includes crime against women and children and that an attempt to “polarise” majority against minority is being made by inciting hatred among people, the state’s archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao said Monday. He also observed that the ethos ofContinue Reading
Mumbai: One of the largest gatherings of Christians in Mumbai in recent times showed how tolerance can go hand in hand with commitment to one’s faith. As the National Eucharistic Congress wound up in Goregaon on Sunday, one of the five delegates representing the archdiocese of Bombay, Royston Braganza, woreContinue Reading
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday again appealed for tolerance as Hindu activists attacked a Jammu and Kashmir legislator with ink while the Shiv Sena forced the BCCI to call off talks with the PCB on reviving cricketing ties between India and Pakistan. And in Bengaluru, BJP activists heckledContinue Reading
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today said the core values of diversity, tolerance and plurality of Indian civilisation must be kept in mind and cannot be allowed to be wasted, in remarks that come against the backdrop of the Dadri lynching over rumours of beef eating. “I firmly believe thatContinue Reading
New Delhi – Asserting that religion cannot be made a cause of conflict, President Pranab Mukherjee today said “tolerance” and promotion of goodwill between diverse communities needs to be preserved with “utmost care and vigilance”. In his address to the nation on the eve of 66th Republic Day, the PresidentContinue Reading
