Pakistan conveyed to the Indian side that the reported hate speeches were viewed with grave concern by the civil society and a cross-section of people in the country. Last month, Pakistan's Foreign Office summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires and conveyed its concern over the alleged hate speeches made at the Haridwar conclave. It is high time international community took note & acted(sic),” he tweeted. “The continuing silence of Modi govt on the call at an extremist Hindutva summit in Dec for genocide of minorities in India, especially the 200 mn Muslim community, begs the question whether the BJP govt supports this call. In another tweet, Khan accused the BJP-led government of targeting minorities in India, adding that the extremist agenda “is a real and present threat to peace in our region.” “It is high time international community took note & acted,” he further said. On his Twitter handle, Khan also questioned whether the BJP government supports the call for genocide of minorities in India, especially the 200 million Muslim community. Khan took to Twitter to make the allegations in the wake of alleged inflammatory and provocative speeches against Muslims at an event in Haridwar in Uttarakhand held in December. Islamabad, Jan 10: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday alleged that minorities in India were being targeted by extremist groups and warned that such an agenda "is a real and present threat" to regional peace. Singh of New York County Supreme Court, 1st District, according to ethnic New India Times.īesides her legal acumen Rajeswari is an accomplished Bharat Natyam and Kucchipudi dancer who continues to perform at Indian events and temples with her troupe from the Padmalaya Dance Academy, named after her mother, Padma Ramanathan. "Many of the domestic violence victims have been South Asians, Sri Lankans."Ĭurrently, there are two male judges of Indian descent in civil court settings - Jaya Madhavan on the New York City Housing Court in Bronx County, and Anil C. "That has always stayed with me."Īs a prosecuting attorney in New York, she has come across numerous cases of spousal and child abuse within the South Asian community in New York, Rajeswari said. Rajeswari told ethnic Desi Talk she had observed gender inequality even before coming to the US when some of her "brilliant" girlfriends in India were married off at the age of 14 and 15. She hopes to use her new position to improve the judicial system by encouraging interpreters to have more access to aid immigrants, the news site said. Rajeswari, who has worked at the district attorney's office for 16 years, has been the deputy chief of the Special Victims Unit for more than four years.
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"I told the mayor this is not only my American Dream, but it shows another girl from a far away country that this is possible." "For someone like me, an immigrant who comes from India, I'm beyond grateful," she said. It's way beyond what I imagined," she was quoted as saying by, a Staten Island news website. Rajeswari, 43, an assistant district attorney at the Richmond County District Attorney's office, who was nominated to the bench by Mayor Bill de Blasio, formally assumed her new office Tuesday.