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Catalan President calls for international mediation over independence
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
London [U.K.], October 3 (ANI): The Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, has called for international mediation to resolve the region's growing crisis with the Spanish Government, saying Europe cannot continue to ignore the issue after around 900 people were injured during the police crackd
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Catalonia votes to split from Spain amid violent crackdowns
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Madrid [Spain], October 2 (ANI): The Catalan government claimed victory early Monday in a contested referendum on independence from Spain.
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Catalonia referendum gets underway amid Spain crackdown
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Catalonia [Spain], Oct 1 (ANI): Catalonia's independence referendum is underway in the towns and cities across the northeastern region, with the Spanish security forces entering many sites and attempting to confiscate ballot boxes.
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China refutes reports of issuing directive to Muslims to hand in copies of
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 30 (ANI): China has dismissed the reports that all copies of the Quran and prayer rugs in Xinjiang were directed to to seized as part of a crackdown against extremists in the restive province.
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FM Jaitley dismisses corruption in Centre, says excessive cash dealings 'u
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 21 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said corruption no longer exists in the Centre, while lauding its proactiveness in implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), crackdown on excessive cash transactions, benami property, shell companies and s
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Trump's illegal immigration agenda gets setback from court
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.] Sept 16 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump's illegal immigrant agenda on Friday got setback from a court that barred the U.S. Justice Department from denying public-safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with the Trump administrat
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Five ISIS suspects arrested in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Aug. 15 (ANI): At least five people were arrested for their alleged connection with the Islamic State (ISIS) from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas' (FATA) by law enforcement personnel in a crackdown on Monday.
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NIA-Separatists crackdown: Arrests only after proper probe, says Hansraj A
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): In the wake of National Investigative Agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing Separatists in connection with the terror funding case, Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Wednesday said that it is the duty of the government
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Separatists must be shown their real place: Hansraj Ahir
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Lauding the crackdown by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Separatists that led to the arrest of seven leaders on money laundering charges to fund terror in the Kashmir Valley, Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Tuesday said the gove
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Separatists now stand exposed before Kashmiri youth: BJP lauds NIA crackdo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Lauding the National Investigation Agency`s (NIA) crackdown on Separatists that led to arrest of their seven leaders on money laundering charges to fund terror in the Kashmir Valley, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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Pak asks Facebook to link accounts with mobile numbers
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 13 (ANI): Pakistan has asked social media giant Facebook to link opening of accounts on network with mobile numbers to deter fake accounts as part of its crackdown on blasphemous content online.
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Punjab CM orders crackdown on forces destabilising harmony in state
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], July 6 (ANI): The Punjab Police on Thursday filed a case against three USA-based persons, including the Legal Advisor of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), along with two persons based in India, on charges of sedition, promoting enmity and criminal conspiracy, after Chief Minister
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