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Denied ticket, Karnataka Congress general secy asks why party ignoring 50
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 25 (ANI): Karnataka Congress general secretary Kavitha Reddy on Monday lashed out at her party for not promoting women empowerment while picking candidates for the June 3 Legislative Council elections.
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Cholera outbreak in Balochistan, 85 pc without clean drinking water: Repor
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Quetta [Balochistan], May 24 (ANI): Pakistan's Balochistan province is reeling under a massive cholera outbreak as 85 per cent of the population is deprived of clean drinking water.
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People in China seethe over government order to produce more children
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 23 (ANI): As China faces a scenario of negative population growth, the government has started to force its citizens to marry early and have at least three children each. The administration has also begun rolling out various contests as bait.
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Union Minister Ramdas Athawale backs Raj Thackeray, bats for population co
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 23 (ANI): Backing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's demand for a population control law, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Monday said there is an urgent need to bring in a bill on the matter.
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Over 25.8 mln people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Myanmar
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], May 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar has fully vaccinated more than 25.8 million people, or more than 46 percent of the country's population, against COVID-19 as of Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health on Sunday.
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Raj Thackeray urges PM Modi to bring Uniform Civil Code, population contro
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], May 22 (ANI): Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and law on population control in the country.
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Japan provides USD 1.5 million for medicines to Sri Lanka through UNICEF
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 21 (ANI): Grappling with severe medicine shortages, the Japanese government came forward to help Sri Lanka by providing USD 1.5 million for essential medicines through UNICEF to meet the urgent needs of the population.
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Union Secretary advises States, UTs to expedite COVID-19 vaccination progr
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): India's cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 191.96 crore but still a large number of population is unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
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World Bank, UN grant 10 million USD to mitigate impacts of Beirut port bla
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], May 15 (ANI/Xinhua): A new 10 million U.S. dollars grant will help Lebanon mitigate the environmental and health impacts of the Beirut port explosions on the neighboring population and support Beirut's reconstruction, the United Nations said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Same-sex marriage: Centre opposes plea in Delhi HC for live streaming of p
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): In Delhi High Court, the Centre has opposed the petition seeking live streaming of proceedings on petitions for recognition of same sex marriages under the special, Hindu and foreign marriage laws and submitted that "a majority of Indian population is not
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We are against encroachment but bulldozing won't be tolerated: Delhi CM on
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that while his government is against encroachment, it would not tolerate the bulldozing being done by the BJP-led MCD in the national capital, stating that it would leave a large chunk of people "homeless".
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Will Sunday's elections weaken Hezbollah's grip on Lebanon?
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] May 16 (ANI): Lebanon, a country plagued by state mismanagement and rampant corruption, the currency of which lost 90 per cent of its value and 80 per cent of its population live below the poverty line, on Sunday had its first elections since 2018.
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