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Delhi Police arrests criminal lodged in Punjab jail for plot to kill Sushi
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 4 (ANI): A criminal, who was lodged in a jail in Punjab, has been arrested by the Delhi Police's Special Cell on Thursday in connection with an alleged conspiracy to kill Kashmiri activist Sushil Pandit.
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Pooja Chavan death case: Police register non-cognisable offence against BJ
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washim (Maharashtra) [India], March 3 (ANI): Washim Police in Maharashtra on Wednesday registered a non-cognizable offence against a few Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and activist Trupti Desai for allegedly defaming members of the Banjara community.
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Meet advocate, activist Sadik Naduthodi, always ready for weaker section o
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Malappuram (Kerela) [India], March 3 (ANI/PNN): Have you ever wondered how come a person becomes an activist or whom to call an activist? Sadik Naduthodi is not only an advocate but also an activist who is continuously contributing to work for the weaker section of the society.
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China to impose more institutional changes to curb democracy in Hong Kong
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, March 2 (ANI): Eight months since Beijing imposed the draconian national security law to curb the pro-democracy movement, authorities have used the legislation to stamp out street protests, ban activists from lobbying foreign governments, gut the legislature and arrest most of the
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US civil rights activist Vernon Jordan dies at 85
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 2 (ANI): Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to former US President Bill Clinton, has passed away at age of 85 on Monday (local time), CNN reported citing sources.
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47 dissidents in Hong Kong booked for 'conspiring to subvert state power'
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, March 2 (ANI): Hong Kong police has charged 47 former opposition lawmakers and activists for conspiring to subvert state power under the draconian national security law in the region.
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Baloch activists hold protest in solidarity with families whose members su
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands] March 2 (ANI): Baloch political activists organised a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam to show their solidarity with the families whose members have been subject of enforced disappearances in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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Pakistan: Rights group calls for release of activist Professor Muhammad Is
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], March 2 (ANI): A civil rights group has demanded that the bail application of Pakistani human rights defender Professor Muhammad Ismail should be accepted by the Peshawar High Court on March 5 and the charges against him and his wife, Uzlifat Ismail, should be dropped im
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Pashtun activist blames Pakistan for sheltering dreaded terrorists
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Paris [France], March 2 (ANI): As Pakistan remains on the 'grey list' of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Pashtun rights activist has blamed the country for providing shelter to dreaded terrorists, including the Taliban.
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Toolkit case: Delhi court to hear Nikita Jacob's bail plea on March 9
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): A Delhi court on Tuesday granted time to Delhi Police to file a reply on social activist and lawyer Nikita Jacob's anticipatory bail plea in the "Toolkit" document case related to the ongoing farmers' protest.
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Uyghur activist wins 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bavaria [Germany], March 2 (ANI): Sayragul Sauytbay, a human rights activist and survivor from China's Xinjiang, has been awarded the 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, for highlighting the human rights abuses being meted to ethnoreligious minorities in the country's western re
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LDF, UDF have become puppets for 'Tukde Tukde' activists, says Kerala BJP
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], March 1 (ANI): Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President K Surendran on Sunday said that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) have become puppets in the hands of the 'Tukde Tukde' activists, who are trying to divide the country.
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