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LGBT crackdowns: Dar es Salaam Governor vows mass arrests
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], Nov 1 (ANI): In increasing crackdowns on the LGBT community in Tanzania, Paul Makonda, the Governor of Dar es Salaam vowed to arrest citizens belonging to the community by next week.
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Newly appointed Sri Lankan cabinet sworn in
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Oct 30 (ANI): Newly-appointed Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse's cabinet was on Monday sworn in amid increasing pressure on President Maithripala Sirisena to convene an early session of the Parliament.
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Govt. treating human rights organisations like criminal enterprises: Amnes
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 26 (ANI): Amnesty India's Executive Director Aakar Patel in a statement on Friday accused government authorities of increasingly treating human rights organisations like "criminal enterprises".
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SC stipulates bursting time of firecrackers on Diwali
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 23 (ANI): Keeping in view the increasing level of pollution and health hazards of firecrackers on citizens across the country, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stipulated the bursting time of firecrackers on Diwali and refused to put a stay on the sale of these substances.
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ASSOCHAM lauds RBI's move enabling NBFCs to tackle liquidity crunch
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 21 (ANI): The ASSOCHAM lauded the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) move to incentivise banks which are enhancing credit lending facilities to non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) by easing liquidity norms and increasing the ceiling for lending to a single NBFC until De
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Mindfulness-based programs may reduce stress in infertile women
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 17 (ANI): Conducting an eight-week mindfulness-based program can turn out to be effective for reducing stress and depressive symptoms while increasing general well-being of infertile women.
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Future Hi-Tech Batteries aims at becoming India's leading Lithium-ion Batt
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 13 (NewsVoir): India is a vast country where meeting power demands of the ever-increasing population are nothing less than a challenge. Constant efforts and innovations are being made to generate power so that not a single corner is not left under darkness.
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Retail inflation picks up
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 12 (ANI): Increasing prices of fuel, cereal, clothing, footwear and depreciation of rupee has led to India's retail inflation rate pick up from 3.69 per cent in August to 3.77 per cent in September, 2018. Despite the increase, the inflation rate remains within the 4 pe
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UK brings in measures to tackle barriers facing ethnic minorities in the w
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Oct 11 (ANI): The United Kingdom has announced the new Race at Work Charter which is signed by high-profile businesses leading the way on increasing ethnic minority representation in the workplace.
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Hockey now increasingly popular among Kashmiri girls
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Oct 9 (ANI): The game of hockey is widely gaining popularity among Kashmiri girls, and local authorities of the Valley are doing their bit to further encourage this trend.
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Counterterrorism Strategy for complex and evolving terrorist threats: Trum
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D. C. [USA] Oct 05 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump on Thursday highlighted the headway made under his Presidency in countering terrorism so far and stressed on the importance of the new National Strategy for Counterterrorism in "countering the increasingly complex a
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Punjab Govt increases cash prize for medal winners
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Oct 4 (ANI): The Punjab government has approved the enhanced cash awards under the new Sports Policy-2018, thereby increasing the prize money for medal winners of the prestigious tournaments like Olympics, Asian Games, and Commonwealth Games.
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