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PM Modi offers prayers at Somnath Temple, pays tribute to Sardar Patel
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Gujarat [India], Mar.8 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered his prayers at the Somnath Temple and also offered his tribute to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's statue, marking his seventh visit in Gujarat.
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Kolkata: People hold candlelight vigil against Kansas shooting
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Feb 25 (ANI): A day after an Indian-origin engineer, Srinivas Kuchibhotla was shot dead in Kansas, dozens of people held a candlelight vigil at Mother Teresa's statue here, seeking justice against the hate crime.
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Activists hang 'Refugees Welcome' banner on Statue of Liberty
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Feb. 23(ANI): A banner, reading "Refugees Welcome," was unfurled atop the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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Won't construct statues and memorials any more: Mayawati
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb. 11 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Saturday said her government, if voted to power, would concentrate more on the development of Uttar Pradesh and welfare of the people rather than constructing more memorials and statues.
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TMC MPs to hold protest as demonetisation move completes three months
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 8 (ANI): The Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs will hold protest at the Gandhi statue in Parliament at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday as the government's demonetisation move completes three months.
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TMC MPs to hold dharna as protest against electoral reform
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 7 (ANI): As a form of protest against electoral reform and state funding of elections, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPS will hold a dharna on Tuesday in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue inside Parliament House complex.
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Big B mistakes his wax statue at Madam Tussauds, Delhi as his photo
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 13 (ANI): Ahead of the opening of Madam Tussauds in the national capital in July, Amitabh Bachchan's life-like wax statue was unveiled yesterday at the curtain raiser.
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Japan evades key issues when talking history: China on 'comfort woman
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Jan. 10 (ANI): Commenting on the tiff between Japan and South Korea over the erection of a 'comfort woman' statute, China ridiculed Tokyo saying the gestures of Japanese leaders on the issue of history can be summarised as ducking what is crucial and dwelling on w
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Japan postpones high-level dialogue with S. Korea over offensive statue
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], Jan. 6 (ANI): Japan has postponed high-level economic discussions with South Korea to express its displeasure at the placement of a statue symbolising victims of Japanese wartime sex slavery outside its consulate.
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Not against Shivaji statue but BJP adopts double standards: BSP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)[India], Dec. 25(ANI): The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Sunday alleged the Narendra Modi government of double standards, saying that at one end Shivaji staue is getting worth Rs. 3,600 whereas statues of schedule caste and OBC are being criticised for being waste of ex
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Row over Shivaji statue a gimmick to influence Maharashtrian voters: NCP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Dec. 24 (ANI): The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Saturday dubbed the row over the installation of a statue of Shivaji as political gimmick engineered by the Bharatiya Janata Party to influence the Maharashtrian voters.
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Shiv Sena, BJP unnecessary taking credit for Shivaji statue: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Dec. 24 (ANI): The Congress party on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra is taking unnecessary credit for the proposed construction of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji on an island located on the Arabian Sea off the Mumbai
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