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Hong Kong govt calls for tighter supervision of city's public broadcaster
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, February 24 (ANI): The Hong Kong government has called for tighter supervision of city's public broadcaster by government-appointed advisers, a move seen by pro-democracy activists as an attempt to restrict freedom of the press.
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Toolkit case: Disha Ravi released from Tihar Jail
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Climate activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested for her involvement in sharing a 'toolkit' on social media in connection with the ongoing farmers' protest, has been released from Delhi's Tihar jail, prison officials confirmed on Tuesday.
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R-Day violence: Delhi court remands Deep Sidhu to 14-days judicial custody
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): A Delhi court remanded actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu to 14-days judicial custody for his alleged involvement in the violence that took place at the Red Fort and other parts of the national capital on Republic Day.
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US honours Indian activist Anjali Bharadwaj for her work on combating corr
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 23 (ANI): The United States on Tuesday honoured Indian social activist Anjali Bhardwaj with the International Anti-corruption Champions Award.
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Court grants bail to Disha Ravi who has no 'criminal antecedents', says ev
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): A Delhi Sessions Court on Tuesday granted bail to climate activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested for being involved in sharing a 'toolkit' on social media in connection with the ongoing farmers' protest.
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Creation of WhatsApp group or being editor of innocuous Toolkit not an off
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): The Session Court on Tuesday while granting bail to Disha Ravi, a climate activist and accused in farmers protest toolkit case, observed that "creation of a WhatsApp group or being editor of an innocuous toolkit is not an offence".
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Activists, Uyghurs protest in Paris to ensure Pakistan is placed on FATF b
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Exiled journalists, human rights activists, and Uyghurs on Tuesday gathered at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) headquarters in Paris to persuade the anti-terror financing organisation to place Pakistan on the blacklist.
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Toolkit case: Delhi court grants bail to Disha Ravi
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to climate activist Disha Ravi, who was taken into custody by Delhi Police on February 13 from Bengaluru in connection with the farmers protest 'toolkit' case.
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Xinjiang facing worst kind of ethnic genocide, says activist
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], February 23 (ANI): The Xinjiang autonomous region is facing the worst kind of cultural and ethnic genocide at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said an Uighur activist.
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Former PM Narsimha Rao's daughter Vani Devi 'qualified enough' for MLC can
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 22 (ANI): Telangana Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Monday said Vani Devi, the daughter of former Prime Minister late PV Narasimha Rao, whom the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has declared its MLC candidate, is qualified enough to
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Amid FATF meet, terrorists in Pakistan kills four Pashtun women activists
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
North Waziristan [Pakistan] February 22 (ANI): Amid the ongoing Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meet on the fate of Pakistan, a group of terrorists ambushed a vehicle carrying women activists from a non-governmental organisation in a former northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan
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Toolkit case: Disha Ravi sent to one-day police remand
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): A Delhi Court on Monday granted one-day police remand to climate activist Disha Ravi, who was taken into custody by Delhi Police on February 13 from Bengaluru in connection with the 'toolkit' case as part of the police probe into violence on January 26 i
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