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3 BJP activists arrested in Hooghly for raising derogatory slogans
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], January 21 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) District Yuva Morcha President Suresh Shaw and two other workers of the party have been arrested in connection with slogans raised at a political rally in Chandannagar here, police said on Thursday.
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Baloch, Sindhi organisations call for international probe into activist Ka
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London [UK], January 19 (ANI): Baloch and Sindhi human rights and political organisations have called for an international investigation into the death of activist Karima Baloch.
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Uyghur activist calls for help to end 'genocide' in China
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New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): With the COVID-19 pandemic causing Uyghurs to be subjected to an even more brutal crackdown in China, a human rights activist called the world for help to end the 'genocide' against the community.
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Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Dwayne Johnson, other stars mark Mart
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Washington [US], January 19 (ANI): Hollywood stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Venessa Hudgens, Dwayne Johnson among many others on Monday (local time) honoured United States' most famous civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., over social media on the annual holiday Martin Lu
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Chidambaram slams NITI Aayog for rejection of RTI on farm laws
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Citing NITI Aayog's rejection of activist Anjali Bhardwaj's Right to Information Act (RTI) request regarding the information on farm laws, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday slammed the government body for the delayed actions.
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Four suspects accused of helping Hong Kong activists escape, released on b
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Hong Kong, January 16 (ANI): At least four suspects were released on bail on Friday after being accused of helping Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors who tried to escape to Taiwan in wake of the draconian National Security Law imposed by Beijing.
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Armed struggle in Balochistan inspired by Pakistan's decades-old colonial
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London [UK], January 15 (ANI): A Baloch political activist and writer said that the contemporary armed and political struggle in Balochistan is strongly inspired by the consequences of 70 years of Pakistan's indirect and direct colonial rule.
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India expresses 'deep concern' over targeted killings of journalists, acti
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New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): India on Thursday expressed 'deep concern' over the recent rise in the targeted killings of journalists and civil society activists in Afghanistan and called for the "immediate and comprehensive" ceasefire in the war-torn country.
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Anna Hazare writes to PM, demands that govt fulfil assurance on fixing MSP
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Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) [India], January 14 (ANI): Social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that farmers should get 50 pc more than the cost of inputs but they do not get it though the government had given assurances in this regard in the past.
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Hong Kong police detain 11 for aiding pro-democracy activists' escape atte
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Hong Kong, January 14 (ANI): The Hong Kong national security police have arrested a lawyer, a Ukrainian man and nine others on suspicion of bankrolling an attempt by 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors to flee the city in order to escape to Taiwan amid Beijing's imposition of the draconian
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Chinese civil society has entered 'ice age' after years of crackdown: Acti
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Beijing [China], January 11 (ANI): The Chinese civil society has entered an unprecedented "ice age" after years of the crackdown by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said a veteran dissident Ou Biaofeng, adding that any form of resistance these days is almost guaranteed to "draw retaliation
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Hong Kong accuses West of 'double standards' for condemning mass arrests
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 10 (ANI): As the US, UK, Australia and Canada jointly condemned the mass arrests of over 50 politicians and activists in Hong Kong under Beijing's draconian National Security Law, Hong Kong has responded stating that the security law applied to every person in the city and
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