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NHRC to investigate woman farmer activist's gangrape and death
Updated : 7 hours, 2 min ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decided to investigate the case of alleged rape and death of a woman activist from West Bengal, at Tikri border where the farmers protest is going on against Centre's three farm laws.
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Journalism in PoK: A saga of intimidation, oppression and censors
Updated : 1 day, 12 hours ago IST
Gilgit [PoK]/Bern [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): Journalists and political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan have blamed Islamabad for subjugating their voice and harassment by using draconian anti-terrorism laws.
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VHP urges President Kovind to take effective steps to stop post-po
Updated : 1 day, 13 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Tuesday requested President Ram Nath Kovind to take effective steps to immediately stop the "unprecedented post-poll violence" committed by "TMC activists and Jihadists" in West Bengal.
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Delhi HC grants interim bail to Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal
Updated : 2 days, 16 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday granted three weeks interim bail to Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal after her father passed away due to COVID-19.
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Bengal activist allegedly raped while going to farmers' protest at
Updated : 2 days, 20 hours ago IST
Jhajjar (Haryana) [India], May 10 (ANI): A West Bengal-based woman who died with COVID-19 symptoms at a hospital in Haryana was allegedly gang-raped while she was going to join the farmers' protest at Tikri border in Haryana.
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Blasphemy a tool to silence women's rights activists in Pakistan
Updated : 4 days, 8 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): The charge of blasphemy has been used as a tool to silence many in Pakistan, especially annual Aurat March that continues to be targeted with unsubstantiated allegations, and scandalized by, as experts call then, upholders of patriarchal inertia.
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Activist Yogita Bhayana moves HC seeking direction to Kwality Phar
Updated : 6 days, 13 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Social Activist Yogita Bhayana moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to Kwality Pharmaceuticals Limited to supply the available units of the Remdesivir and further directed it to use the full capacity to manufacture/produce the Remdesivir and supply the
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Jailed Hong Kong activist gets new prison term over Tiananmen Squa
Updated : 6 days, 16 hours ago IST
Hong Kong, May 6 (ANI): Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to serve 10 more months in prison on Thursday for joining last year's vigil to commemorate victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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Uyghur activists dismiss Chinese propaganda documentary on happy M
Updated : 1 week, 4 days ago IST
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], May 2 (ANI): Uyghur activists dismissed a documentary released by the state-owned China Global Television Network in mid-April in several languages, including English and Russian, in a bid to push Beijing's narrative of Xinjiang to global audiences.
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Four Hong Kong activists including Joshua Wong convicted over Tian
Updated : 1 week, 5 days ago IST
Hong Kong, April 30 (ANI): A court in Hong Kong has convicted four pro-democracy activists, including Joshua Wong, for taking part in a memorial ceremony commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre victims.
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COVID-19: Plea in SC to direct Centre to ensure ration, transport
Updated : 1 week, 6 days ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking directions to ensure that the migrant and stranded labourers get ration and food security and they are also able to travel back to their homes at nominal cost amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<
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Odisha govt to provide incentives to health care professionals on
Updated : 1 week, 6 days ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 29 (ANI): Odisha government on Thursday announced that they will provide incentives to health care professionals on COVID-19 duty working under the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department for the period of April to July this year.
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