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PM Modi's visit to Bangladesh's Orakandi would send positive message to Ma
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 26 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shantanu Thakur on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Orakandi in Bangladesh would send a positive message to the Matua, Namasudra, Rajbansi and other Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India.
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Chicago City Council rejects misleading resolution critical of Indian govt
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Chicago [US], March 25 (ANI): The Chicago City Council on Wednesday rejected a resolution which sought to condemn "violence against certain castes and religious minorities" in India, following intense pushback from the Indian diaspora in the United States over concerns that it could lead
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SC issues notice to Union of India on plea seeking compensation for man wr
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Union of India (UOI), after hearing petitions seeking compensation to Vishnu Tiwari who was wrongfully convicted to life imprisonment over rape allegations and Provisions of Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe
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Lok Sabha passes bill to modify list of scheduled castes in Tamil Nadu
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill that seeks to modify the list of scheduled castes in Tamil Nadu.
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France's COVID-19 cases surge by 34,998 in 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Paris [France], March 19 (ANI/Xinhua): France registered 34,998 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, the second biggest daily tally since mid-November 2020 after Wednesday's 38,501, bringing the country's cumulative number of positive cases to 4,181,607, according to data from the c
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Amid third COVID-19 wave, France to go into month-long lockdown from Frida
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Paris [France], March 19 (ANI): French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday imposed a month-long lockdown in 16 areas of the country, including the greater Paris and Nice areas, in wake of rising COVID-19 cases.
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Man kills another in Andhra's Krishna district after being provoked by rel
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Krishna District (Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 17 (ANI): A man was stabbed to death with a sharp weapon at a panchayat building here after allegedly being provoked by his relatives at Nandigama town of Krishna district, police said on Tuesday.
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France has entered third COVID-19 wave: PM Jean Castex
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Paris [France], March 17 (ANI): French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Tuesday said that the country has entered 'a kind of third wave' of COVID-19 infections, amid a surge of cases as numerous variants of the virus has affected the nation.
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Ranchi: BJP, JMM MLAs protest at assembly demanding inclusion of Kurmis in
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], March 16 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party MLAs held a protest at the State Assembly premises in Ranchi on Tuesday demanding the inclusion of Kurmis in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category.
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PIL filed by BJP's Kapil Mishra in SC seeking compensation for man wrongfu
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 13 (ANI): A PIL has been filed on Saturday in the Supreme Court by former minister and BJP leader, Kapil Mishra, seeking compensation for Vishnu Tiwari who was wrongfully convicted for life imprisonment under the allegations of rape and Provisions of Schedule Caste a
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BJP strikes caste, region balance in Uttarakhand CM, state President appoi
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 12 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party, keeping in mind the caste and regional equations in Uttarakhand has decided to keep a balance by appointing a Rajput and a Brahmin as its Chief Minister and state unit chief respectively. By the appointment of Chief Minister Tirath S
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No proposal to release census 2011 caste data: MHA in Rajya Sabha
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 10 (ANI): The Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday clarified on caste-related details received from Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011 to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. In a reply, the Union Home Ministry said that raw caste data has been
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