A divided United States House on Tuesday slammed President Donald Trump's racist tweet telling four minorities Congresswomen to 'go back' to their ancestral countries.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his acceptance speech of being named as leader of the BJP-led NDA, said that they must focus on ending the 'imaginary fear' among the minorities that the party will do nothing for them. “We have to win their trust,” PM Modi said.

The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday replied strongly to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's remark on the minorities, saying it is an “egregious insult to all citizens of India.”

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday again tried to compare the treatment of minorities in his country and India, saying these communities would be treated as equal citizens in "Naya Pakistan", "unlike what is happening in India", days after stating that he would "show" the Narendra Modi government "how to treat minorities".

The Bharatiya Janata Party will not allow the Telangana government to implement a 12 per cent reservation for minorities, party President Amit Shah said on Sunday.

Just a day after meeting BJP president Amit Shah in Chandigarh, the top leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday and emphasized that the BJP-Akali Dal alliance in Punjab was "durable and time-tested".

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central and the Jammu and Kashmir governments to sit together to decide the issue of identification of religious and linguistic minorities and whether Muslims could be treated as a minority in the state.