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BJD, BJP activists involved in scuffle at Bhubaneswar rally
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Dec. 21 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) workers engaged in a scuffle on Wednesday after the opposition called for a shutdown across the state in protest against a sex scandal involving the Mayor of Bhubaneswar Ananta Jena.
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RTI activist files plea in SC on Amma's death mystery
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Dec. 20 (ANI): An RTI activist Narasimha Murthy has filed a plea in the Supreme Court on late Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa's death.
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DYFI activist murder: Double life imprisonment for 11 RSS activists
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec. 19 (ANI): The Additional Sessions Court in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday announced double life sentence for 11 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activists in Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activist Vishnu's murder case.
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MP varsity VC's 'decent clothes' advise to women nonsensica
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru(Karnataka)[India], Dec.19 (ANI): Reacting to the advice given by the vice chancellor of Madhya Pradesh's Bhoj Open University (MPBOU) to women students in NIFT to wear "decent" clothes, social activist Brinda Adige termed the suggestion as absolutely 'nonsense&
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Govt. lacks will to use available tools to prevent crime against women: Wo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 16 (ANI): Recalling the horrific December 16, 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman, women activist Annie Raja on Friday said the government lacks the political will to use available tools to prevent crimes against women due to which till now justice has not been deli
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NALSA nominates Bindeshwar Pathak as its member
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 15 (ANI): The National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA), has appointed noted social reformer, activist, and founder of Sulabh International, Dr Bindeshwar Pathak as its member.
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Bhujbal case: PMLA court to pass order on Anjali Damania's plea
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 15 (ANI): A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court will on December 21 pass the order on complaint of activist Anjali Damania's plea in Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)?leader Chhagan Bhujbal's hospital transfer matter.
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Burhan Wani ex-gratia: Ashoke Pandit slams J-K Govt, seeks PM Modi's
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Dec.14 (ANI): Upping the ante on the Mehbooba Mufti government for announcing an ex-gratia payment to Burhan Wani's brother Khalid Wani, social activist Ashoke Pandit on Wednesday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention into the matter.
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Experts deliberate on the connect between global warming, life patterns of
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.13 (ANI): At a panel discussion held recently at the Indian Social Institute (ISI) here, prominent social activists and media persons deliberated on the connect between global warming and the life patterns of rural communities.
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Baloch activists protest in Canada against genocide by Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], Dec. 12 (ANI): Baloch activists held demonstrations in Canada to protest against the current situation of human rights violations in Balochistan Province of Pakistan.
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In S. Korea, Baloch activists protest against genocide in Balochistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
South Korea, Dec. 12 (ANI): Baloch activists held a demonstration in South Korea to protest against the current situation of grave human rights violations in Balochistan Province of Pakistan.
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Pak Army has licence to kill us, rape us, still UN is silent: Baloch activ
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.11 (ANI): Accusing the Pakistan Army of having the licence to "kill, rape and torture Baloch people and to take out their organs to sell them", Baloch Kurd liberation activist and World Baloch Women's Forum president Naela Quadri Baloch has demanded that
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