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Abstention at UNHRC in line with India's practice of not voting on country
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 7 (ANI): Justifying India's stand on abstaining from voting in UNHRC on atrocities of Uyghurs by China, India in its first comment said that the human rights of people in Xinjiang should be respected and the abstention of the vote at UNHRC is in line with India'
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'Intrinsic to our foreign policy, India prefers another approach to issue"
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 7 (ANI): After India abstained on Thursday from voting on a UN Human Rights Council resolution on holding a debate on the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang, experts called this 'intrinsic' to foreign policy and that New Delhi would prefer another approach
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India abstains from voting in UNHRC over holding debate on rights situatio
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 6 (ANI): India on Thursday abstained from voting on a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on holding a debate on the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang.
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UNHRC adopts resolution over Sri Lanka's rights situation, India abstains
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 6 (ANI): While abstaining to vote on the UNHRC draft resolution on human rights in Sri Lanka, India on Thursday said it has always been guided by two fundamental principles -- "support to the aspirations of the Tamils for equality" and "peace and sovereignty of
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India abstains from UN vote that condemns Russia's annexation of Ukrainian
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], October 1 (ANI): India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, said on Friday that India is deeply disturbed by the recent turn of developments in Ukraine and stressed that dialogue is the only answer to settle differences and disputes after India abstained in
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Students should know how metro is constructed so that they do not destroy
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], September 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that students of Classes 9 to 12 and engineering should know about the methodology and cost incurred on the construction of the metro so that they abstain from protests and do not destroy public prop
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"What magic did you do on a tough lady like Mamata?" Gehlot asks VP Dhankh
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], September 21 (ANI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in a lighter vein, asked Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar what "magic" did he do on a "tough lady" like Mamata Banerjee that she decided to abstain from voting during the VP election.
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Dhankhar expresses gratitude to Mamata for abstaining in VP election
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], September 21 (ANI): Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has expressed his gratitude to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her move to abstain from voting in the vice presidential election in August this year.
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'Isn't the time for ego': Margaret Alva on TMC's decision to skip V-P poll
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 22 (ANI): A day after the Trinamool Congress announced it would abstain from voting in the upcoming vice presidential election, Opposition candidate Margaret Alva on Friday termed the party's move as 'disappointing' and said it "isn't the time for whataboutery, ego or
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Oppn should work unitedly, says Kharge after TMC announces to abstain from
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 22 (ANI): After the Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee declared that the party will abstain from voting in the upcoming Vice Presidential polls, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said the opposition should work unitedly.
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TMC to abstain from voting in VP Poll: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleges 'Dar
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 22(ANI): Reacting to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) decision to abstain from voting in Vice-Presidential polls, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of having a pact with BJP and is trying to avoid any kin
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Opposition unity for V-P poll collapses, TMC to abstain from voting
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 21 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said that the party will abstain from voting in the upcoming Vice Presidential poll.
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