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Pegasus row: IT Minister reiterates media report attempted to malign India
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 22 (ANI): Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday reiterated that the media report about the use of Pegasus spyware is a carefully-timed attempt to malign the Indian democracy.
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"Universities must be an ideal version of Democracy" Dr. Shashi Tharoor M
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Sonipat (Haryana) [India], July 22 (ANI/OP Jindal University): "In a democratic society, universities must evolve into spaces where an ideal version of democracy is allowed to thrive. In other words, our universities must become the staging grounds for experiments in developing the most prin
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Three top staff of defunct Apple Daily arrested under Hong Kong security l
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 21 (ANI): The Hong Kong Police on Wednesday arrested three senior employees of now-defunct pro-democracy Apple Daily under Hong Kong's controversial national security law.
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Pegasus row: Mamata Banerjee attacks Centre, calls Opposition to unite aga
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 21 (ANI): Slamming the BJP-led Central government over the ongoing Pegasus controversy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday pitched for Opposition unity against the 'threat to democracy' in the 'surveillance state'.
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Top member of Myanmar's former ruling party dies of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], July 21 (ANI/Sputnik): A close aide of overthrown civilian leader and senior member of the former ruling National League for Democracy Party in Myanmar, Nyan Win, has died of COVID-19 in Yangon hospital on Tuesday, Myanmar Now reported.
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Siddaramaiah claims BJP-led Govt behind snoopgate as Pegasus sold to only
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 19 (ANI): Pegasus revelations have strengthened the belief that the BJP-led union government has "always" worked against democracy, said senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah slamming Centre on media reports that cla
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IT Minister says no substance in Pegasus project report, calls it attempt
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said there is 'no substance' in the media report regarding the use of Pegasus on WhatsApp, adding that the report was an attempt to malign Indian democracy and its well-established institutions.
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Piyush Goyal slams Opposition over ruckus; says 'insult to democracy'
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): Slamming the Opposition after the ruckus in the Parliament, Leader of House in the Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal on Monday said the uproar is an insult to the democracy and people of India.
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Why do people go into exile in Pakistan? Experts express concern over its
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London [UK], July 15 (ANI): Highlighting state-sponsored repression by Pakistan, experts at a recent seminar hosted by not-for-profit The Democracy Forum asked pertinent questions on why people in the Asian country felt the need to go into exile due to their political beliefs.
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Govt should give due regard to the SC observation on Sedition law: Former
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New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Former Union Law Minister and Senior Congress leader Dr Ashwani Kumar welcomed the Supreme Court observation on the Sedition law on Thursday that it is a colonial law which was used by the British to suppress freedom. "It was used against Mahatma Gandhi a
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Biden rips Trump's 'big lie' claims on 2020 elections in voting rights add
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) ripped apart the claims of Donald Trump's 'big lie' about the 2020 presidential election and said that the US is facing the "most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War" due to alleged attempts by the
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AAP observes 'black day' in Goa on two years of 10 Cong MLAs joining BJP
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Panaji (Goa) [India], July 10 (ANI): Aam Admi Party (AAP) observed 'black day' in Goa on Saturday to mark the "second anniversary" of 10 Congress MLAs leaving the party to join BJP.
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