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MJ Akbar, Tarun Tejpal included in Editor's Guild of India member list
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 17 (ANI): The Editor's Guild of India has released an updated list of members, which includes names of former Union Minister M. J. Akbar and Tarun Tejpal, both of whom have been alleged of sexual misconduct by their women colleagues.
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Scribe backs MJ Akbar in defamation suit against Priya Ramani
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 12 (ANI): Journalist Joyeeta Basu, who recorded her statement as a witness in the defamation case filed by former Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar against Priya Ramani, said neither did she face any incident of sexual misconduct from Akbar nor did she wi
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India calls for 'reform and reinvigoration' of Security Council
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New York (USA), Nov 10 (ANI): India's Ambassador to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin called for a reform and reinvigoration of the UN Security Council, and focused on the role of strengthening multilateralism- an organising principle for international cooperation.
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AIMIM's `Shehzada' versus BJP's Shehzadi
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Nov 6 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pitted newcomer Shehzadi as its candidate from the Chandrayangutta constituency against All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi's younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi, in the upcomi
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Pallavi Gogoi refutes Akbar's 'consensual relationship' claim
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 03 (ANI): Pallavi Gogoi, the former Asian Age journalist who has levelled rape allegations against former Union Minister of State for External Affairs M. J. Akbar, on Thursday quashed the latter's claims that their relationship was consensual.
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Refuting rape allegations, Akbar claims his relationship with journalist w
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 2 (ANI): Responding to a fresh allegation against him by woman journalist Pallavi Gogoi who accused M.J. Akbar of raping her 23 years back, the former Union Minister of state for External Affairs, on Friday asserted that he was in consensual relationship with Pallavi a
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Ex-Asian Age journalist accuses MJ Akbar of rape, lawyer denies charges
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 2 (ANI): A former Asian Age employee has accused MJ Akbar of raping her at a hotel in Jaipur over two decades ago. The journalist, who is presently based in United States, has also claimed that she faced harassment at the hands of the former minister while working a
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Priya Ramani's tweets harmed my reputation: MJ Akbar
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 31 (ANI): Former junior foreign minister MJ Akbar on Wednesday recorded his statement before a Delhi court in the defamation case filed by him against journalist Priya Ramani, who had accused him of sexual misconduct.
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NIA nabs kingpin of fake currency network from Guwahati
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team from Hyderabad arrested one absconding accused Md. Akbar Ali from Katabari near Bharalopar Fatasha in Guwahati, who carried a bounty of Rs.25,000 on his head.
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#MeToo: Maneka Gandhi to look into institutional mechanisms of media organ
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Following a request of the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC), Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has decided to examine the institutional mechanisms of all the media organisations amid multiple allegations of sexual harassments by wo
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Maneka Gandhi urges political parties to form sexual harassment committee
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 18 (ANI): With the rising number of alleged sexual harassment cases surfacing since the #MeToo campaign raged in India, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday urged all the political parties to form internal complaint committees.
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Women should be treated equally everywhere: Javadekar
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 18 (ANI): A day after MJ Akbar resigned from the government, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar on Thursday asserted that women should be treated equally everywhere in the society.
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