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Opposition needs to be quieter on SIMI encounter killings: Swamy
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 4 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday urged the opposition to quieten down on the issue of the recent elimination of eight alleged SIMI activists in an encounter that took place on the outskirts of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
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NHRC issue notices to MP Govt., DGP over killing of eight SIMI terrorists
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh Government, Chief Secretary and state police after eight activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI,) who had escaped from the Central Jai
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Owaisi for SC probe, dubs government's SIMI encounter theory 'un
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said the elimination of eight SIMI activists by Madhya Pradesh police at the same place on the outskirts of Bhopal could not have taken place, and called for a Supreme Court-
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Bhopal SIMI encounter seems faked, SC should step in, says Congress
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): Suggesting that the elimination of eight SIMI activists by the police at the same place on the outskirts of Bhopal appeared to be faked, the Congress party on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to assign a retired judge to probe the matter.
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Seems in Nitish-ruled Bihar 'Beti Bachao' not applicable, say ac
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai, New Delhi [India], Oct. 27 (ANI): Social activists on Thursday maintained that in Bihar it seems the campaign of "Beti Bachao" (Safety of Girls) has no takers.
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CPEC project will suppress and loot us, says Baloch, Sindhi and other mino
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels, [Belgium] Oct. 25: The multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will have its serious implications on the region, said human rights and political activists at an event in Brussels, Belgium.
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Triple talaq: PM Modi's statement draws mixed reaction from women act
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi/ Ahmedabad [India], Oct. 24 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to people on the triple talaq issue and urging the intellectuals who participate in the TV debate to not to make it a Hindu-Muslim issue has drawn mixed reactions from women activists.
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Kerala dress code row: activists slam "Talibani" Diktat
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 22 (ANI): After the Kerala Government Medical College (KGMC) issued a dress code for girls, prohibiting them from wearing jeans, leggings or 'noisy ornaments', women activists on Saturday condemned the move saying such diktats diplaying overpowering the patr
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Brussels-based rights activists aware of developing links between Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Oct.21 (ANI): Human rights activists based in Brussels, Belgium, have noted the strong and deep developing links between Pakistan and Rohingya militants.
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Tibetan activists protest in Margao against China's illegal occupatio
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Margao, (Goa) [India], Oct. 15 (ANI): The Tibetan activists staged a protest in Margao on Saturday against China's illegal occupation of Tibet.
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BJP calls for shutdown in Kerala post murder of its worker
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Oct. 13 (ANI): Following the recent murder of one of its activists in Kerala's Kannur district, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a state-wide shutdown on Thursday to protest against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government.
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Unidentified gunmen shoot Peoples' Conference worker, dies
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Oct. 12 (ANI): Ghulam Nabi Khwaja, a J-K Peoples' Conference activists and a close aide of party chairman Sajjad Lone, succumbed to his injuries after he was shot by unidentified gunmen at Handwara in Kupwara District of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesd
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