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Locket Chatterjee meets Dhankhar to discuss child rights violation at Puru
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State General Secretary and Member of Parliament from Hooghly Locket Chatterjee on Thursday met with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to discuss "horrific" situation at Shimulia Anandamath Juvenile Home in Purulia and to e
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Pakistan's minority rights activist attacked in S Korea seeks help for med
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 7 (ANI): A Pakistani minority rights activist and lawyer attacked with a knife in South Korea on Tuesday has sought help for his medical treatment.
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Sindhi Foundation to protest over human rights violations outside Pak Emba
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 6 (ANI): Munawar Sufi Laghari, Executive Director of Sindhi Foundation and a well-known political activist in Pakistan urged the people of Sindh, Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa to join a protest against the worst form of human rights violations and abuses in Pakistan, outs
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Court okays Trump administration auctioning oil drilling rights in Alaska
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Alaska [US], January 6 (ANI/Sputnik): A US federal judge has turned down requests by conservation and indigenous groups to prevent the outgoing administration from selling oil and gas leases to drilling companies in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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Pashtun rights movement demands immediate release of Said Alam, other acti
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 6 (ANI): The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has demanded the release of Said Alam Mahsud and other PTM activists who have been detained by Pakistani authorities and withdrawal of all false charges against them.
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Delhi HC seeks Govt response on upper age limit for veterinary courses
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Veterinary Council of India, the respondents on a plea challenging the upper-age limit of 25 years, as a criteria for admission to Bachelor of Vet
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NHRC issues notice to UP govt over Muradnagar crematorium mishap
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government, seeking a detailed report over the collapse of a crematorium in Ghaziabad's Muradnagar, which led to 23 deaths.
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Provide compensation in case of death of prisoner in Tihar jail, NHRC agai
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday reiterated its recommendation that the Delhi Government should pay Rs 3 lakh as relief to the next of kin of an undertrial prisoner (UTP) who committed suicide in Tihar Central Jail on May 11, 2018.
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Protest organised outside Canadian Embassy in Paris to demand justice for
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Paris [France], January 5 (ANI): A protest was held on Monday outside the Canadian embassy in Paris to seek justice for Karima Baloch with protesters demanding a thorough investigation into the mysterious death of the human rights activist and Baloch leader a few days ago in Toronto city.
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NCPCR furnishes information regarding funds received by children's homes i
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 4 (ANI): Acting on a complaint by an organisation namely Legal Rights Observatory, the National Commission For Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) came up with information about funds being received by children's homes in Assam and Manipur from an international NGO.
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Sindhis, Balochs unite to demand justice for Karima, expose Pak's brutalit
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 4 (ANI): As anger over the mysterious death of Baloch activist Karima Baloch -- who died under mysterious circumstances in Toronto -- continues to rise, Sindhis and Balochs have joined hands demanding an independent and thorough investigation into her death while highlig
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China slams US move to delist of its telecom firms, vows to retaliate
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 2 (ANI): China on Saturday slammed the United States after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) move to delist three Chinese telecom companies and vowed to take necessary measure to protect Chinese "enterprises' legitimate rights".
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