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Activists wearing masks disrupt London event, say those opposing repeal of
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct 5 (ANI): A group of volunteers wearing masks and carrying a rainbow banner, representing LGBTQ community, disrupted an event hosted at SOAS University of London where CPI-ML member Kavita Krishnan was criticising the recent decisions of the Indian government concerning Ja
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Bengaluru: Pro-Kannada activists protest against lack of funds from centre
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 5 (ANI): Pro-Kannada activists on Saturday demonstrated funeral of 25 BJP members of parliament from Karnataka here, protesting against the lack of funds from the centre to combat the flood situation in the state.
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Aarey case: Section 144 imposed near Metro rail site in Mumbai
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 5 (ANI): After activists launched protest opposing tree-felling in Aarey Colony here for metro work yesterday, the Mumbai police on Saturday imposed Section 144 of CrPC near the metro construction site.
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Iraq anti-govt protest: Death toll rises to 34; over 1500 wounded
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 4 (ANI): The death toll from three-days of mass anti-government protests in Iraq has risen to 34, with hundreds of others wounded as authorities extended a curfew to several southern cities, security officials and activists said on Thursday.
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Bhima Koregaon: Fifth SC judge recuses from hearing Gautam Navlakha's plea
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 3 (ANI): Days after Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and three other judges recused themselves from hearing a petition filed by activist Gautam Navlakha in Bhima Koregaon case, another judge on Thursday dogged the case.
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Satyagraha, a debt we owe to India: Nancy Pelosi
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Oct 3 (ANI): Mahatma Gandhi was the spiritual leader of America's non-violence movement - that is how the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, described the leader of India's independence struggle, who influenced American social activist Martin Lu
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Things Pak courts do to appease ISI: Activist Gulalai Ismail on non-bailab
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 3 (ANI): Pakistani women rights activist Gulalai Ismail on Wednesday deemed the non-bailable arrest warrant issued against her as an act of appeasement by the Pakistani court before country's intelligence agency ISI.
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Bhima Koregaon: After CJI, another judge recuses himself from hearing Gaut
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 1 (ANI): After Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, another judge of the Supreme Court on Tuesday recused himself from hearing the petition filed by activist Gautam Navlakha seeking quashing of FIR against him in Bhima Koregaon case.
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Baloch activists hold protest in London against enforced disappearances of
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], Sep 30 (ANI): Activists of Baloch National Movement (BNM) on Monday held protests outside 10 Downing Street, the residence of British Prime Minister, to raise the issue of enforced disappearances in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan.
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China harvesting organs from minorities, including Uighur Muslims: Activis
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 29 (ANI): China was accused of harvesting organs from prosecuted minority groups, during a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting earlier this week.
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31st International Conference on Sindh held in London
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept 29 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) on Saturday hosted an international conference on Sindh in London, where the participants highlighted issues such as enforced disappearances of activists, human rights violations and forced conversion of religious minorities in P
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Nepal: Students and activists take to streets join Global Climate Strike
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Lalitpur [Nepal], Sept 28 (ANI): On the last day of Climate Strike Week or the "Strike Friday" hundreds of Nepali students and activists took to the streets of Lalitpur as part of the Global Climate Strike that called for action to combat climate change and minimise its adverse impacts.
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