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Congress leader Pawan Khera calls for more strict laws on rape amid growin
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
On August 27, chaos broke out in the streets of Kolkata. Security personnel lobbed tear gas shells, used water cannons and resorted to lathi-charge to disperse protestors on the Howrah Bridge marching towards the West Bengal State Secretariat Nabanna, amidst the growing protests over the
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"CM should not use police to intimidate people": BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekha
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Authorities have tightened security in Kolkata in the wake of the 12-hour 'Bengal Bandh' call by the BJP.
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"What's happening in Nabbana clearly shows what dictatorship looks like" s
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia on Tuesday hit out at TMC led West Bengal government over the Kolkata police's crackdown on the protestors taking part in Nabanna Abhijaan Rally amidst the row over the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case. Security personnel on Tuesday lobbed tear ga
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"Chaos orchestrated by BJP," says TMC after Police clash with protestors d
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Hitting out at the Nabanna Abhijan protest march, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and Bengali actress Saayoni Ghosh on Tuesday called the protestors "goons" and said that the protests look more like a picnic with the protestors taking a "cool shower" under water cannons.
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Kolkata: Police lob tear gas, lathicharge protestors as 'Nabanna Abhijan'
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Protestors gathered at the Howrah Bridge, climbing atop police barricades and clashed with police personnel during during the 'Nabanna Abhijan' protest march.
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West Bengal: 'Nabanna Abhijan' protest march begins amid heightened securi
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The rally began from the College Square in the capital of West Bengal. As per the initial information, the protestors have reached till the barricades.
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Nabanna Abhijan student protest: Civic workers grease gates of Fort Willia
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
A march to Nabanna has been called today by Paschim Banga Chatra Samaj and other organizations which aimed to protest the recent rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor in Kolkata.
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"Urge state not to use power on peaceful protestors": Governor Ananda Bose
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Amid the tightened security around the West Bengal state secretariat in the wake of the Nabanna Abhijan Rally, the West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday urged the state government to not to use power to stop the "peaceful protesting students."
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Pakistan: University employees protest over months of unpaid salaries amid
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The protestors marched along Airport Road and assembled at Markhor Chowk, where BUITEMS Staff Association President Sohail Anwar and other leaders addressed the rally.
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SC appeals to doctors to return to work, directs states not to take coerci
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The top court said that how will public health infrastructure work if the doctors don't resume work. The top court also took note of the long working hours of the doctors in public hospital.
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Pakistan: Specially-abled citizens in Lahore protest against low wages
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The protestors claimed that the government lacks a set method or rule for regularization or salary hikes of a specially-abled employees, and they have raised the issue several times but the administration continues to remain ignorant over the matter
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Baloch Republican Party President condemns Pak atrocities against the comm
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti, the President of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) in a video statement released on Friday condemned the Pakistani army for its tactics aimed at discrediting peaceful Baloch protestors.
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