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Four Popular Front of India activists booked under UAPA
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 20 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said that the four accused from Popular Front of India (PFI) cadres arrested earlier have been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
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BJP slams TMC after RTI reveals 122 farmer suicides in Bengal against stat
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Paschim Medinipur (West Bengal) [India], September 20 (ANI): The BJP has slammed the TMC government after glaring facts came to the fore as activist Bishwanath Goswami in a right to information (RTI) application sought clarifications on farmer suicides in the Purba Medinipur region of West B
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Activists raise grim human rights situation in Balochistan at Berlin confe
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 20 (ANI): The Baloch human rights activists and those living in exile have raised the issue of the grim human rights situation in Pakistan's poorest but resource-rich province of Balochistan at a day-long conference held in Berlin on September 17.
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Political, human right activists call Pakistan-occupied Kashmir a state in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 19 (ANI): Amid Islamabad's unsuccessful efforts to constitutionally integrate Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan, human rights activists from the region along with journalists, lawyers and thinkers from Pakistan raised the human rights situat
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90 pc Afghans in online poll supports reopening girls' schools as Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): About ninety per cent of voters in Afghanistan supported the reopening of schools for girls beyond grade six, and 10 per cent opposed the decision, as per an online poll conducted by Afghanistan's local media outlet TOLO news.
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Room to Read India and USAID jointly organize a National Seminar to Culmin
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI/NewsVoir): Room to Read India (RtR) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) jointly hosted a National Seminar on September 8, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at The Lalit Hotel in New Delhi.
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"Salary delays, misgovernance" by Delhi Govt, says Delhi University Teach
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) on Friday urged the Centre to take over colleges run by the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government claiming that teachers were not getting proper salaries due to budget cuts while politic
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London-based activist lambasts Imran Khan over new anti-Pakistani army sta
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], September 8 (ANI): London-based rights activist Shaukat Ali Kashmiri raised concern over Pakistan's socio-economic and political situation and lambasted former Pakistani Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan for his close association with the Pakista
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House arrest instances in China could cross over a million in next 3 years
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 7 (ANI): Under the Chinese President Xi Jinping, the law enforcement's use of house arrests or "residential surveillance" has risen sharply, media reports said citing a research by Safeguard Defenders.
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China-backed controversial mega project in Myanmar rapidly becoming human
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 7 (ANI): Rising incidents of human trafficking have alarmed human rights activists, with reports that the Shwe Kokko New City in southeast Myanmar's Karen State has become a people-trafficking hub.
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Assam Govt to observe Bodofa Upendranath Brahma's birthday as Chatra Divas
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kokrajhar (Assam) [India], September 6 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday announced that the State government will celebrate the birthday of Indian Bodo social activist Bodofa Upendranath Brahma on March 31 every year as 'Chatra Divas'.
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Tibetan Democracy, best gift by Dalai Lama: UK-based Tibetan rights activi
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], September 4 (ANI): Tsering Passang, a London-based Tibetan rights activist, said that democracy is one of the best gifts Dalai Lama has given to the people of Tibet.
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