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Anti-Hindi row: KRV activists demand signboards to have 70 percent Kannada
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 21 (ANI): The Pro-Kannada organisation Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) on Friday staged a protest in front of the the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) demanding 70 percent of the language written on any board/signboard or name plate should be in K
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Pro-Kannada activists demand existence of old flag, condemn setting up of
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 20 (ANI): The pro-Kannada activists on Thursday demanded the old flag of the state to continue, while condemning the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) opposition to a Karnataka flag.
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Bengaluru: Anti-Hindi row continues to grow as pro-Kannada activists black
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 20 (ANI): The anti-Hindi agitation seems to be growing with each passing day, as the members of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) blackened words written in Hindi on the signboard outside Yeswanthpur metro station.
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Anti-Pakistan protests erupt in Sindh, demand for independent Sindh raised
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi (Sindh) [Pakistan], July. 18 (ANI): Hundreds of activists of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), a banned Sindhi organisation in Pakistan, recently participated in a march in Hyderabad to demand independence for Sindh province and the release of Sindhi political activists abducte
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Women activists call parties to take cognizance into Rupa Ganguly rape rem
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 15 (ANI): Women activists on Saturday condemned the trade of rape comments exchanged between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rupa Ganguly and West Bengal Power Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, saying that both the leaders are not worthy of holding the
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Women activists target West Bengal minister for shameful remark on Rupa Ga
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] July 15 (ANI): Condemning the controversial statement made by West Bengal Power Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rupa Ganguly, women rights activists on Saturday said it is shameful and deplorable for a minister to make such
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WB minister claims, he was attacked by Gorkhas activists with stones
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], July 13 (ANI): West Bengal Tourism Minister Gautam Deb on Thursday claimed that he was attacked by Gorkhaland activists.
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Baloch activists hold anti-CPEC protest during G-20 Summit in Hamburg
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hamburg [Germany], July 8 (ANI): As world leaders gathered for the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, activists from the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) held a protest against the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar project passing through the Balochistan province.
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Rouhani's criticism of the dam project amounts to violation of the He
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 7 (ANI) : Civil society activists from Afghanistan and residents of different provinces have reacted after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that dam projects in Afghanistan are damaging the environment.
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Yogendra Yadav, Medha Patkar detained during farmers' rally in Mandsa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 6 (ANI): Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav, activists Medha Patkar, Paras Saklecha and others were detained by police during a farmers rally in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.
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Karnataka's anti-Hindi row now also includes English
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India] July 06 (ANI): After Hindi, now English is facing the heat of pro-Kannada activists in Karnataka.
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Activist criticises Lucknow university notification asking women to not st
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 5 (ANI): The recent order implemented by the Vice-Chancellor of a central Lucknow university, which reportedly asked all women employees to not stay in the campus after 6 p.m., has been criticised by activists, along with many women staff and officers wh
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