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KBADA chairman writes to Kerala Minister over renaming Kasargod villages,
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 27 (ANI): Stating that some local bodies are trying to change the names of Kannada-speaking villages in Kasargod district of Kerala without consulting the people, Karnataka Border Area Development Authority (KBADA) chairman C Somasekhara said that this
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Maharashtra: Fadnavis, BJP workers detained during protest to demand OBC q
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 26 (ANI): Mumbai Police on Saturday detained hundreds of protestors, along with BJP party workers who were gathered at their BJP unit office to start a 'morcha' in front of the Maharashtra Secretariat to demand political reservation of Other Backward Cla
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Odisha govt directs urban local bodies to spend 25% of budget on slum deve
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Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 25 (ANI): The Odisha government on Thursday directed all urban local bodies (ULBs) to spend 25 percent of their budgetary allocation on the development of slum areas.
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Rights groups call for boycott of Beijing 2022 games on International Olym
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Munich [Germany], June 23 (ANI): A group of campaigners representing Tibetan, Uyghur, Southern Mongolian, Hongkonger and Taiwanese people will hold rallies in over 60 global cities, calling on world leaders, Olympic bodies and sponsors to boycott Beijing 2022 Games.
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COVID-infected corpses floating from Uttar Pradesh have reached Bengal, sa
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 21 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that corpses of alleged Covid-19 victims who were dumped in the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh were floating into West Bengal, polluting the rivers and causing contamination.
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New York's Times Square celebrates International Yoga Day with over 3,000
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New York [US], June 21 (ANI): The seventh International Yoga Day was celebrated at the iconic Times Square in New York on Sunday. The day-long yoga festival with the theme of 'Solstice in Times Square 2021' was attended by more than 3,000 people where yogis, with their yoga mats and flexi
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BJP works for welfare of people, will contest polls alone: Devendra Fadnav
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Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 21 (ANI): As the rift between the three parties of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition is widening on the issue of going alone in elections to local bodies, Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janat
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Bodies of 2 Naxals recovered after encounter in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur
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Narayanpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], June 20 (ANI): Bodies of two Naxals have been recovered after an encounter in the Abhujmaad region of Narayanpur District, said the police.
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JUI-F holds protest on power, water problems in Pakistan's Sindh province
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Larkana [Pakistan], June 18 (ANI): The workers of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Thursday held a protest in Pakistan's Sindh province over a slew of issues including the Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) incident, shortage of irrigation water, power outages, corruption, deteriorating law and o
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World media bodies poke holes in Pak journalist murder probe, seek fresh i
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): A new report on the murder of Pakistani journalist Zubair Mujahid, published by international media bodies, finds significant errors in the official police investigation, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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Centre amends Cable TV Network Rules, Self-Regulatory Bodies To Be Recogni
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New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): The Centre on Thursday issued a notification amending the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994 to provide a statutory mechanism for the redressal of grievances and complaints relating to content broadcast by television channels in accordance with the provisi
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Pak journalists, activists question silence of religious bodies after cler
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): Lahore police have registered a case against cleric Mufti Azizur Rehman following a video clip surfaced on social media showing him allegedly sexually assaulting one of his students, prompting journalists and activists to condemn the incident and question
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