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China using pressure tactics on family members to intimidate Uyghur scribe
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 19 (ANI): Chinese has been pressurising family members to intimidate journalists reporting about the atrocities against over a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang, as recently shown by the detainment of two brothers of a Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalist who has been missing si
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Odhisa writes to Health Ministry for inclusion of additional categories as
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Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], March 18 (ANI): Odisha government on Wednesday urged the Union Health Ministry to allow it to include journalists, electricity and water supply and airport workers and priests of Lord Jagannath Temple and Lingaraj Temple in the frontline workers category for CO
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EdTech Startup Mokusei Intelligence, which offers up to 100 per cent fundi
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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): Mokusei Intelligence, a mass impact and education-centric tech startup which develops AI/ML-based algorithms and solutions to tackle social challenges, is set to launch its flagship mobile-only digital remote assessment app platform -
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Beijing intensifies attacks on foreign media, journalists: Report
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Beijing [China], March 16 (ANI): China's move to ban the broadcasting of BBC World News last month for reporting on human rights violations in Xinjiang has exemplified Beijing's escalating attacks on foreign media and journalists to curb independent coverage of its government.
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Will protest against registration of FIR against Akhilesh Yadav if needed,
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Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 14 (ANI): Samajwadi Party leader Shafiqur Rahman Barq on Sunday condemned the registration of FIR against his party supremo Akhilesh Yadav against whom an FIR was registered recently for allegedly attacking journalists during a press conference in Mor
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China using COVID-19 pandemic to obstruct foreign journalists
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Beijing [China], March 3 (ANI): China increased restrictions for the foreign press amid the coronavirus pandemic and denied access for foreign journalists to certain areas, notably in Xinjiang, even though they remained open to other people, according to a press group.
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UK PM faces backlash for 'journalists abuse people' remark
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London [UK], February 23 (ANI/Sputnik): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sparked criticism after telling children on Tuesday that journalists "are always abusing people," with a Labour lawmaker urging him to apologize and the head of the National Union of Journalists saying that such rema
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Activists, Uyghurs protest in Paris to ensure Pakistan is placed on FATF b
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Exiled journalists, human rights activists, and Uyghurs on Tuesday gathered at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) headquarters in Paris to persuade the anti-terror financing organisation to place Pakistan on the blacklist.
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US continues to stand with Burmese people voicing aspirations for peace an
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Washington [US], February 22 (ANI): The US continues to stand with the people of Burma as they voice their aspirations for peace and democracy and it calls on the military to stop violence, release all those unjustly detained and cease attacks on journalists and activists, according to US
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6 year jail for two Iraqi Kurdish journalists is unfair, says Committee to
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], February 20 (ANI): The sentencing of Iraqi Kurdish journalists Sherwan Sherwani and Guhdar Zebari to six years in jail "for jeopardising Kurdish national security" is "unfair and disproportionate", according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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SC grants journalist Siddique Kappan interim bail to meet his ailing mothe
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New Delhi [India], February 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday granted five-day interim bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan to visit his ailing mother in Kerla.
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Both India, Afghanistan want to see region free of terrorism, says PM Modi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 9 (ANI): Expressing concerns over the rising violence in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed targeting of the civilians, journalists and workers by the terrorists a "cowardice act" and asserted that both India and Afghanistan want to see the region
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