Jajpur (Odisha) [India], February 21 (ANI): Poll violence intensified during the third phase of polling in the panchayat elections in Odisha's Jajpur with some journalists being attacked and as many as 20 people detained, informed the District Magistrate.
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 18 (ANI): An ex-security forces employee of the former Afghan government on Thursday urged the Taliban to respect the general amnesty announced by them after they took over the war-torn nation in August last year.
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).
Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh) [India], February 15 (ANI): A Kashmiri student was detained in Neemuch after he allegedly posted objectionable posts on social media about the Pulwama attack.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 15 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday detained one person in Mumbai in connection with its investigation in a money laundering case related to the underworld.
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Four Afghanistan women activists, who were detained by the Taliban regime and later released after a long period of uncertainty, are under pressure not to publicize the details about their detention, their relatives have told local media.
Beijing [China], February 14 (ANI): Even as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has granted the opportunity to host the prestigious world event to China, the country does not seem to be interested in the rights or welfare of the Chinese people at all.
Kiev [Ukraine], February 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Two people were killed in a shooting in a cafe in the Donetsk region in early hours of Sunday, and two people were hospitalized, while the perpetrators were detained, the regional department of the national police said.
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 13 (ANI): Two persons were detained near the technical airport in Jammu, said Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday.
Lhasa [Tibet], February 12 (ANI): Tibetans in Dragyab County and Chamdo with contacts in exile have reportedly been ordered to install spyware on their cellphone in order to keep them on close watch.
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 11 (ANI): Taliban have detained at least nine foreigners in Kabul, including one American and several British citizens, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing relatives of the detainees and sources familiar with the matter.
Ankara [Turkey], February 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkish security forces detained Friday 197 illegal immigrants and 10 suspected human smugglers in Turkey's western province of Izmir, state-run TRT broadcaster reported.