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Darjeeling unrest leaves 36 policemen injured: Police
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], June 17(ANI): Thirty-six policemen were injured, five received gunshot wounds and two were injured by sharp weapons in clashes with the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha activists as call for a separate Gorkha state turned violent in Darjeeling on Saturday.
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Pakistan has made Balochistan 'hell on Earth': Baloch activist M
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 17 (ANI): Baloch activist Munir Mengal has said that Pakistan has made Balochistan a "hell on Earth".
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Pansare murder accused Gaikwad gets conditional bail
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolhapur (Maharashtra) [India], June 17 (ANI): Sanatan Sanstha activist Samir Gaikwad, who is an accused in the veteran Communist leader and rationalist Govind Pansare murder case, on Saturday got a conditional bail.
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Rajasthan lynching: Activists demand rigorous punishment for accused
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal)/Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 17 (ANI): After an activist Zafar Hussein was lynched to death in Rajasthan for resisting photography and videography of women defecating in open, activists on Saturday demanded rigorous punishment against the accused, citing said the
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Rajasthan: CPI (ML) activist Zafar lynched to death for resisting photogra
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan)/New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation has issued a statement stating that activist Zafar Hussein was lynched to death in Rajasthan for resisting photography and videography of women defecating in open.
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Karnataka: Pro-Kannada activists call for bandh over Mahadayi water disput
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 12 (ANI): Pro-Kannada organisations have called for a state-wide bandh on Monday in lieu of early implementation of the Mahadayi river water dispute.
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Women activists for action in para-athlete's harassment incident
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The women activists on Sunday condemned the incident where a national level weightlifter was unheard by the police when she went to report a complaint against alleged harassment and urged the authorities to bring guilty to book.
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Yogendra Yadav, Medha Patkar detained, stopped from entering Mandsaur
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 11 (ANI): Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav, social activists Medha Patkar, Swami Agnivesh and JNUSU president Mohit Kumar Pandey were detained by the police on Sunday when they were trying to enter restive Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh to meet the
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Women activists demand action in Unnao gang rape matter
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra), June 9 (ANI): Asserting that crimes against women are on the rise in Uttar Pradesh, women rights activists on Friday demanded that the government and the administration should look into this matter seriously for curbing violence against females.
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Youth Congress holds "Rail Roko" protest at Ghatkopar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Ghatkopar (Maharashtra) [India], June 8 (ANI): Indian Youth Congress (IYC) activists staged a "Rail Roko" protest at Mumbai's Ghatkopar railway station in support of the farmers' protest in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh.
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Activist lashes at UP Government over recent crimes against women
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 8 (ANI): Following the incident where a woman was gangraped in a moving vehicle by three men and was later thrown out in an unconscious state in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, women activist Ruby Mukherjee on Thursday lashed out at the Yogi Adityanath-led
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Yechury heckled: CPM condemns incident, calls for action
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 8 (ANI): With the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) general secretary Sitaram Yechury getting heckled by the Hindu Sena activists yesterday, senior party leader Prakash Karat condemned the incident and said that the part
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