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Irom Sharmila to break her fast, contest elections
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 26 (ANI): Stating that she would contest state elections from Manipur, activist Irom Charu Sharmila, who has been fasting since 2000 against the controversial Armed Forces Specials Powers Act (AFSPA), has decided to end her protest on August 9.
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Women activists welcome SC's verdict to allow termination of 24-week
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jaipur/Kolkata, July 25 (ANI): Women activists on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict of allowing a rape victim to terminate her 24-week pregnancy, saying the decision has come as a major relief to those with abnormal foetuses.
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Talk of revoking AFSPA encourages violence in Kashmir: Activist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 24 (ANI): Condemning Pakistan's intervention into the internal affairs of India and its encouragement to violence in Kashmir, activist Susheel Pandit on Sunday said Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti should realise that any talk of revoking the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
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Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement activist convicted for protesting
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing, July 21 (ANI): A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted Joshua Wong, the teenage activist who was one of the most recognisable faces of the city's umbrella movement protests, guilty of "illegal assembly" in the former British colony.
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Delhi Govt. orders magisterial probe into AAP activist suicide case
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 20 (ANI): A day after an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) woman worker allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in North Delhi's Narela area, the Delhi Government on Wednesday ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.
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Activists slam AAP, demand probe into woman activist's suicide
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 20 (ANI): Demanding a through probe into the suicide of an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) woman activist, who had accused her party colleague of sexually harassing her, the women activists on Wednesday said this episode is shameful on part of the Arvind Kejriwal-led party which came a
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BJP questions Kejriwal's silence, to lodge complaint with NCW
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 20 (ANI): Stating that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stands thoroughly exposed post the suicide of a woman activist, who had accused her party colleague of sexually harassing her, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said that they would lodge a formal complaint in this regard
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Former DCW chief slams AAP over woman party activist committing suicide
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, july 20 (ANI): Former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Barkha Shukla Singh on Wednesday lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the suicide of one of its woman party workers in Narela area of Delhi and said the party had 'neglected' women since coming to power
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Women activists react angrily to rape, murder cases in Ahmednagar, Rohtak
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata/Mumbai/New Delhi, July 18 (ANI): Women's rights activist and lawyer Abha Singh on Monday said it was shocking to hear how a 14-year-old was gang raped and physically mutilated in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, saying that it reminded her of the brutal December 2012 Nirb
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Long March by Free Balochistan Movement kicks off from Germany's Duss
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dusseldorf (Germany), July 18 (ANI): Leaders and activists of the Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) have started their "Long March" from Germany's Dusseldorf city.
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Women activists welcome Maneka Gandhi's call for amending passports r
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi/Jaipur, July 17 (ANI): The women activists on Sunday hailed Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi's request to the Ministry of External Affairs to amend rules for issuing passports and not make father's name a mandatory requirement as a very positive initiati
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Kerala: BMS, CPM workers killed in Payyannur
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Payyannur (Kerala), July 12 (ANI): A local Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) activist was hacked to death in Payyannur of Kerala's Kannur district in the wee hours today.
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