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Rishi Sunak becoming PM will be ‘source of pride to many British Asians’

Groups heralded the move a ‘historic moment’ that shows the highest office ‘can be open to those of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds’.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak's proud Hindu religion and what he's said about his faith

Rishi Sunak is on the cusp of becoming Prime Minister. If elected Conservative Party leader as expected on Monday, he will become the first British PM not to come from a Christian background

Daily Mirror

Belfast Diwali celebrations as Indian community mark the festival of lights

This year, Diwali falls on Monday, October 24

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Rishi Sunak to become UK’s first Hindu prime minister

Richmond MP lost out to Liz Truss this summer but his dire economic warnings about her ‘fairy tale’ tax policies have been entirely vindicated by her disastrous and short-lived reign

The Independent UK

Diwali delight for Indians as Rishi Sunak set to become UK PM

Many Indians are delighted at the prospect of Rishi Sunak becoming the first person of Indian origin to become British prime minister, just as Hindus like him celebrated Diwali across the world on Monday.

Reuters

Residents across India celebrate Diwali with festivities and dazzling lights

Indians celebrated Diwali on Monday as bright oil lamps and colorful lights lit up homes and streets across the country to mark the Hindu festival that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness.

WEKU

Diwali 2022: When is the festival of lights and how is it celebrated around the world?

Diwali, the festival of lights, represents the triumph of good over evil

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Indians celebrate Diwali with festivities, dazzling lights

Indians across the country are celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness

The Independent UK

Residents in Western Sydney celebrate Diwali after last year's COVID lockdown

Kirki Joshi has been "cooking for days". After the COVID lockdown wiped out festivities in 2021, she is going all to celebrate Diwali this year.

ABC News

Push to create Hindu school in Sydney as migration fuels growing population

Hinduism became Australia's fifth-highest religious affiliation at the last census. Now there's a push to create the first Hindu school.

ABC News

Diwali 2022: When is it and who celebrates it?

Diwali is one of the most widely celebrated religious festivals in the world

Manchester Evening News

Diwali will be honored as an official holiday in New York City schools

Diwali celebrates lightness over darkness and is celebrated by more than 1 billion Hindu people each year. It also has its own versions in the Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism religions.

WEKU

`Where the goodies are great': Sweets lovers welcome Diwali

Many preparations go into the celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which starts Monday

The Independent UK

‘Unjust and unacceptable’: Jairam Ramesh slams The Hindu’s cartoon on Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticised a cartoon published in the Hindu today, calling it “unjust and unacceptable”.

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Q&A: Understanding India’s crackdown on Muslim groups

Al Jazeera speaks to Irfan Ahmad, an expert on Islamist parties and Islamophobia, to understand ban on Muslim groups.

Newslaundry

Bhaijaan the suspect: TV news is turning everyday Muslim conversation into a tool of bigotry

There’s little in common between bigotry and “bhaijaan”, an Urdu word evoking love and respect for a brotherly figure. But in the haze of TV news electrosmog, even a word with such positive connotations as “bhaijaan” is being incubated as a pejorative.

The Conversation

Diwali: A celebration of the goddess Lakshmi, and her promise of prosperity and good fortune

This year Diwali, a popular festival for Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs, will be celebrated on Oct. 24, the Amavasya, or new moon day, of the month of Kartik in the traditional Indian lunar calendar.

The Independent UK

Activist objects to museum selling toys of Hindu deities

A Hindu rights activist is calling on a Massachusetts museum to stop selling children’s plush toys representing three Hindu deities, which he says are “insensitive.”

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2 Indian laborers killed in Kashmir grenade attack

Police say two Indian laborers have been killed in a grenade attack in disputed Kashmir, two days after assailants fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man

Newslaundry

Guardian to OpIndia: ‘Stop online attacks on our reporter’

The Guardian has asked the Indian news website OpIndia to stop its “online attacks” on the British newspaper’s reporter Aina J Khan over her coverage of the violence involving Hindu and Muslim groups in Liecester, England.

The Independent UK

Religious polarization in India seeping into US diaspora

Clashes in India between Hindu nationalists and minority religious groups, particularly Muslims, have sparked tensions online and in person in the Indian American diaspora

The Independent UK

Assailants fatally shoot Hindu man in Kashmir

Assailants have fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man in violence police blamed on militants fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region

Salon

Her name was Jîna Amini: That matters

A young Kurdish woman made famous in death still has a lesson to teach us: Call her by her name

Dynamite News

Gyanvapi Case: Varanasi Court Rejects Plea Seeking Carbon Dating Of 'Shivling'

A Varanasi court on Friday rejected the plea seeking carbon dating and scientific investigation of the purported 'Shivling' claimed to be found in the Gyanvapi mosque complex. Read more on Dynamite News:

Newslaundry

Sundar Nagri murder: Does BJP leader’s call for Muslim boycott have any takers?

On October 9, BJP parliamentarian Parvesh Verma called for a “total boycott” of Muslims because, he declared, they were trying to turn Delhi into a “mini Pakistan”.

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