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Kejriwal avoids media on Anna's criticism
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 6 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today refused to answer questions on veteran social activist Anna Hazare's remark that he now had no expectations from the former.
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Hurriyat is Pak's stooge: Kashmiri activist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 6 (ANI): Kashmiri activist Sushil Pandit on Tuesday warned the Centre post the visit of the all-party delegation to Kashmir and said the separatists move not to indulge in dialogue clearly indicates that they are acting on the orders received from Islamabad.
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Anna Hazare expresses grief over AAP's condition
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Relegan Siddhi (Maharashtra), [India], Sept 6 (ANI): Visibly upset with the present controversies surrounding the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday said that he had high expectations from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with whom he has worked in the
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Cauvery water issue: Activists call for bandh in Mandya, K'taka govt.
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mandya/Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Sept. 6 (ANI): The Cauvery Horata Samiti in Karnataka on Monday called for a bandh in Mandya over the Supreme Court's order to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.
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Bajrang Dal protests against AIMIM's Owaisi in Jammu
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Sept. 5 (ANI): The Bajrang Dal activists staged a protest against All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi here on Monday after he reportedly met Hurriyat leaders.
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Women activists demand action against Dayashankar for yet another slur on
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 5 (ANI): Coming down heavily on Dayashankar Singh for his derogatory slur against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati, women activists on Monday demanded strict action against the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader.
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Concessions, conversations will not pacify situation: Kashmiri activist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jammu (J-K) [India], Sept. 5 (ANI): A day after the separatists refused to hold talks with the all-party delegation, Kashmiri activist Suhil Pandit on Monday said concessions and conversations will not pacify the situation while asking the Centre to chalk out new measures to end the prolonge
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Pak wants to build CPEC on dead bodies of Baloch people: BRP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Panjgur (Balochistan) [Pakistan], Sept. 3 (ANI): Rejecting China's interference in Balochistan over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the Balochistan Republican Party (BRP) activists have said Islamabad wants to build the same in the region on the dead bodies of Baloch people
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Triple talaq, Nikah Halala 'un-Quranic', must be abolished: Woma
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi/ Mumbai/Bengaluru[India], Sept. 2 (ANI): Zakia Somen, co-founder of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) and one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court seeking to ban triple talaq and Nikah Halala, on Friday said the process of divorcing women practiced in India should be ab
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High time SC should strike off triple talaq: Women activist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 2 (ANI): Women rights activist Abha Singh on Friday said the time has come when the Supreme Court should do away with this defective procedure of triple talaq and uphold the right to equality and right to life, which is enshrined in the fundamental rights of the Cons
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Issue Red notices against Pak Army Chief, PM, not against Bugti: Rights ac
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dubai [United Arab Emirates], Sept. 2 (ANI): With the Pakistan Government intensifying its effort to get a Red Notice issued by Interpol against Baloch nationalist leader Brahamdagh Bugti, Baloch human rights activist Mehran Marri on Friday appealed to Interpol to issue Red notices against t
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Sandeep Kumar CD case: Kejriwal owes explanation, says women activist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 2 (ANI): Slamming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government after Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Sandeep Kumar was caught in a compromising position with a woman in a CD, women activist Shamina Shafiq asserted that the party owes an explanation to the women of
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