Search For "democracy"
Canada calls for transparency in trial of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy prote
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Ottowa [Canada], December 29 (ANI): Ottawa has voiced its concern over the judicial procedures performed by Beijing on 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists - also known as the Shenzen 12 -- who were detained in Shenzhen in August while attempting to flee to Taiwan as the Chinese Communist Pa
Read More
Hong Kong police launches search for 30 pro-democracy activists living ove
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 27 (ANI): Hong Kong police have launched a search for 30 pro-democracy activists, including former lawmakers Ted Hui Chi-fung and Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang, living abroad over violation of the city's draconian National Security Law.
Read More
PM Modi says DDC elections in J-K have strengthened roots of democracy, w
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that people of Jammu and Kashmir have "strengthened the roots of democracy" in District Development Council elections and the panchayati raj process striking roots in the union territory is the start of "
Read More
3-tier grassroot democracy established in J-K, elected DDC members to take
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 26 (ANI): With District Development Council (DDC) elections the three-tier grassroot democracy has been established in Jammu and Kashmir, said Manoj Sinha , Lieutenant Governor of J-K on Saturday while adding that the elected DDC members will ta
Read More
Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai granted bail
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 24 (ANI): Media tycoon and Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner -- who was charged under the draconian National Security Law -- has been granted bail and allowed to return to his home.
Read More
Rahul Gandhi targets PM Modi, says incompetent man running system
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): Mounting attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that an "incompetent" man is running the system on behalf of three or four other people without any understanding of anything.
Read More
There is no democracy in India, says Rahul Gandhi
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): There is no democracy in India, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday while adding that it can be our imagination but democracy does not exist in reality in the country.
Read More
Rising anger in Pakistan threatens military's chokehold on political power
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Oklahoma [US], December 24 (ANI): The anger exhibited by the protestors across Pakistan in recent months in the rallies organised by Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), indicates that many Pakistanis see the army as the real power behind Prime Minister Imran Khan and the cause for the politi
Read More
India has data, demography, demand and democracy needed for high-tech high
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI): In his address at the India International Science Festival (IISF) organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that India in the current age has data, demography, demand and most importantly, democracy
Read More
Only Rahul Gandhi can 'restore' democracy in India, says TPCC
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 21 (ANI): In a letter to Congress' Interim President Sonia Gandhi, leaders of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) have expressed their belief in Rahul Gandhi stating that only he can "restore" democracy in India.
Read More
Former terrorist chooses democracy, contests J-K's DDC polls
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 20 (ANI): Munaf Malik, a man who hails from Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri, who was once a terrorist, has now contested the District Development Council (DDC) poll from Darhal Malkan constituency.
Read More
CCP turning Hong Kong into East Berlin of yesteryear: Pompeo
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 19 (ANI): The United States has called for the release of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who were detained in China for fleeing to Taiwan in order to escape Beijing's exercise of the draconian National Security Law, the US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo sai
Read More