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82 Chibok schoolgirls released in Nigeria
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], May 7 (ANI): Eight-two Chibok schoolgirls among the 276 were released by Boko Haram militants on Saturday after more than three years in captivity.
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Pak repatriates Indian after seven months in captivity
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Mar. 30 (ANI): An Indian national from Jammu and Kashmir who had inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan has been repatriated to India, seven months after he was captured by the Pakistani officials.
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Swaraj directs to rescue 29 Telangana workers from Saudi company captivity
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 22 (ANI): Soon after IT and NRI affairs minister K. T. Rama Rao sought Sushma Swaraj's intervention in rescuing 29 Telangana workers from Saudi company captivity, the External Affairs Minister has asked the Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Ahmad Javed, to initi
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I was tortured beyond limits: Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva[Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): Pakistani blogger and human rights defender Ahmad Waqass Goraya, who disappeared from Lahore in January this year, said he was brutally tortured before his release after almost a month in captivity.
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No security, intelligence agency came to my rescue during captivity, says
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.29 (ANI): No security or intelligence agency came to his rescue during his captivity, said Shahbaz Taseer, the son of slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer.
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Govt. won't spare any effort to secure Father Tom's release: Sus
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 27 (ANI): Responding to a plea by Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, a Catholic priest under Islamic State's captivity in Yemen, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday asserted that the government won't spare any effort to secure the former's release
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Indians rescued from Libya to return home today
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 23 (ANI): Two Indians rescued after over a year in captivity in war-torn Libya will return to India on Friday.
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Ex-Pak PM Gilani's son says his kidnappers were Pakistani, belonged t
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Multan (Punjab)[Pakistan], Sept. 20 (ANI): Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who was in captivity for three years said that his kidnappers were Pakistani and they belonged to Al-Qaeda.
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F1 chief Ecclestone's kidnapped mother-in-law rescued unharmed
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Johannesburg, Aug 1 (ANI): The kidnapped mother-in-law of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been rescued unharmed after more than a month in captivity, the Brazilian police have confirmed.
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'Granny' jumbo to enter Guinness Book of World of Records
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram, July 27 (ANI): 86-year-old Dakshayani is all set to enter the Guinness Book of World of Records as the oldest surviving Asian elephant in captivity.
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