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Whoopi Goldberg demands apology for colonial past from British royal famil
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 26 (ANI): Actor-comedian Whoopi Goldberg has demanded an apology from the British royal for their colonial past, stressing that the crown cannot "ignore the fact that Britain ran roughshod over India for years."
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'Colonial' media law meant to gag Press in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): The "oppressive" media law amendments promulgated by the Imran Khan government as an ordinance is colonial in nature and is meant to gag the Press, said a media report.
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Pakistan: Islamabad High Court CJ slams police for being violent towards p
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 6 (ANI): Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah slammed the police for conducting violence on students from Balochistan who were holding a peaceful protest against the alleged enforced disappearance of their fellow student Hafeez Baloch and called the p
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Mass detention of Uyghurs by Chinese govt 'egregious form of settler colon
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 18 (ANI): Highlighting that the Chinese government has detained about 1.8 million Uyghurs since 2017, an anthropologist said that the mass detentions are part of China's settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
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Balochistan Student Union hits out at Pakistan government over targeting o
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 17 (ANI): The Baloch Students Union in its statement has said that targeting political voices and putting obstacles in the peaceful political activities is beyond comprehension, according to Pakistan's vernacular media.
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Pakistan: Jamaat-e-Islami countrywide 100 sit-ins to start from Feb 6
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Thursday announced countrywide 100 sit-ins to protest will start from February 6.
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PM Modi remembers Rani Velu Nachiyar on her birth anniversary
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday remembered Rani Velu Nachiyar on her birth anniversary and said that her "indomitable courage" will keep motivating future generations.
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Amit Shah extends greetings to people on Goa Liberation Day
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday extended greetings to people on the occasion of Goa Liberation Day and paid homage to the soldiers who laid their lives to liberate the state from colonial rule.
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Goa Liberation Day: President Kovind pays homage to soldiers who laid down
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI): On the occasion of Goa Liberation Day, President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday paid homage to soldiers who laid down their lives to liberate Goa from colonial rule.
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Vice President Naidu calls for re-evaluation of Indian history, says colon
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): The Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu has called for an objective re-evaluation of Indian history through better fact-based research adding that the colonial perspective of India's past has distorted facts.
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China sidelining Tibetan culture, leadership for Beijing's strategic inter
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 14 (ANI): China has been relocating Tibetans by demolishing their existing homes and coercing the poor Tibetans to accept fresh village homes in bordering villages with an aim to sideline the minority community and fulfil Beijing's strategic interests, according to
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Centuries of colonial rule could not suppress democratic spirit of Indian
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): Emphasising that democratic spirit is integral to India's civilisational ethos, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that centuries of the colonial rule could not suppress the democratic spirit of the Indian people.
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