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SC reserves order on review petition over lifting ban on firecrackers
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on the review petition over lifting the ban on firecrackers.
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NCW finds eve-teasing 'rampant' in BHU campus
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 06 (ANI): Acting chairperson of National Commission for Women (NCW) Rekha Sharma on Friday said the panel's initial investigation has found eve-teasing 'rampant' in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) campus.
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'Burning' Kundli landfill endangers health of locals
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): The Kundli garbage landfill, which is said to be burning for more than 35 years despite the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) has imposed a nationwide ban on the burning of bulk waste in open spaces.
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Security tightens as BHU reopens today
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 3 (ANI): Days after Banaras Hindu University (BHU) students, staged heated protests over an alleged incident of sexual harassment on campus, leading to a police lathicharge, the varsity reopened on Tuesday.
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'Burqa ban' comes into force in Austria
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], October 2 (ANI): Muslim women in Austria were forced by the police to remove their facial coverings on Sunday, as an anti-burqa law came into effect.
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Karnataka: Infants placed on hot coals as part of religious ritual
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Hubli (Karnataka) Oct. 1 (ANI): In the name of rituals, infants wrapped in banana leaves are made to lie down on a bed of hot coals in Dharwad's Kundgol town near Hubli.
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Saudi Arabian university to open first women driving school in Riyadh
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], Oct 1 (ANI): Saudi Arabia's Princess Nourah University will open a driving school for women after a ban was lifted on women driving in the country.
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Cuban expert weighs in on potential travel ban
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 1 (ANI): With the United States warning Americans against visiting Cuba and ordering more than half of its Havana embassy personnel to leave the island, Professor Eric Zolov of Stony Brook University has recently shared his thoughts.
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'The tide is high' as Atomic Kitten all set to perform in India
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 30 (ANI): Fans of 90's pop have a big reason to be excited as the popular British girl band 'Atomic Kitten's Kerry Katona, Liberty Xs Michelle Heaton and Zoe Birkett are all set to perform for the first time ever in India.
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Pakistan Govt. seeks ban on MML backed by Hafiz Saeed
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 30 (ANI): Pakistan's interior ministry has directed the electoral commission to bar a new party, backed by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, from politics.
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Flight ban imposed on Kurdistan by Iraq goes into effect
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], September 30 (ANI): In reaction to the unilateral vote on independence held on Monday, a flight ban on Iraq's Kurdistan, imposed by the government in Baghdad, has gone into effect at the autonomous region's airports.
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BHU vice chancellor should resign or be dismissed: Congress on his remark
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 29 (ANI): The Congress on Friday said that Banaras Hindu University (BHU) vice chancellor Girish Chandra should step down or be fired over his remarks on the girl students who carried out protests in the campus.
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