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Goa: 3 held for threatening RTI activist Kashinath Shetye
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], July 2 (ANI): Old Goa police has arrested three people for allegedly abusing, wrongfully restraining and threatening to assault RTI activist Kashinath Shetye.
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Thiruvananthapuram: ABVP protests against implementation of Khader Committ
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], July 01 (ANI): Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists on Monday held a protest in Thiruvananthapuram against Kerala government's decision to implement recommendations of the Khader Committee report.
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Pehlu Khan, his brother and sons were habitual offenders, says BJP MLA
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
JJaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 29 (ANI) BJP MLA from Ramgarh, Gyan Dev Ahuja, on Saturday said that Pehlu Khan, who was killed by cow vigilante activists in 2017, his sons and brothers were cow smugglers and habitual offenders.
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Activists extend helping hand to kin of Jharkhand lynching victim
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kharsawanand (Jharkhand) [India], June 27 (ANI): Social activists have come forward to provide assistance to the kin of Tabrez Ansari, who died Sunday after allegedly being lynched by a mob on suspicion of theft in Saraikela Kharsawanand area of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.
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Billboards go up across Birmingham calling for end to enforced disappearan
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Birmingham [UK], June 27 (ANI): Human rights activists from the World Baloch Organisation and the Baloch Republican Party continue their campaign to highlight the dire human rights situation in Pakistan. In their latest initiative, roadside billboards have been put up around the city of Birm
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Fail to understand why sanitary workers jobs are allocated solely for Chri
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 25 (ANI): Human rights activist Kapil Dev on Tuesday questioned why in Pakistan, sanitary workers jobs were allocated solely to Christians.
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Pak authorities using enforced disappearances as tool to crush voices of o
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jun 25 (ANI): A Baloch activist has said that Pakistani state authorities have been using enforced disappearances as a tool to crush the voices of oppressed people like Balochs, Pashtuns, Muhajirs, Sindhis and religious minorities.
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PIL in Gauhati HC against move to transport four elephants to Ahmedabad
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], June 25 (ANI): A PIL has been filed in the Gauhati High Court against the decision of Assam Forest Department to send four elephants through train from Tinsukhia to Ahmedabad to take part in a temple ritual.
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Angry Pak cricket fans tear down anti-Pak posters outside Lord's stadium
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 24 (ANI): A group of Pakistani cricket fans tore down posters and banners put up by Baloch activists outside Lord's Cricket stadium highlighting the deplorable human right conditions in Pakistan.
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Uighur activist to attend G20 Summit in Japan despite protest by China
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Jun 23 (ANI): Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent Uighur political activist, will join world leaders at the annual G-20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, later this month despite protest by China, the Japan Times reported on Sunday.
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Activists hold conference in Birmingham on Pakistan atrocities in PoK, Gil
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], Jun 23 (ANI): Kashmiri political activists from all over Europe gathered in Birmingham city on Saturday to hold a conference on the atrocities committed by Pakistan on people of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan.
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Feature film planned on topless activist group - Femen
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 20 (ANI): Director-producer Darya Zhuk's next project is on the feminist protest group, Femen, famous for their topless protests.
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