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Chhattisgarh top cop reacts strongly to lawyer’s remark

Chhattisgarh police chief Vishwa Ranjan Monday reacted strongly to leading Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan’s comment that he would either end up in jail or himself become a victim of violence.

A section of media here carried a report Monday that the lawyer, during his just ended trip to the state to probe alleged police atrocities [...]

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Kashmir’s security situation improving: Omar Abdullah

Ajmer (Rajasthan), Dec 21 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, has said that the withdrawal of 30,000 troops from the State showed the improvement in the security situation during the last one year.

Talking to reporters [...]

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UN renews sanctions against Ivory Coast

New York, Oct 30 (DPA) The UN Security Council renewed Thursday for another year its arms embargo and financial and travel sanctions against Ivory Coast, citing the persistence in human rights violations.

The Ivory Coast’s UN Ambassador Alcide Djedje called the decision by the 15-nation council ‘anachronistic’ because it failed to reflect the changes that have [...]

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Manipur journalists surrender their I-cards in protest

Imphal, Oct 28 (ANI): Journalists including editors of daily newspapers, periodicals and other media organs here surrendered their identity cards as a mark of protest against inaction by the State Government and the security personnel involved in violation of human rights.

After deciding in a joint meeting of executive members of the All Manipur Working [...]

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Offensive against Maoists will be a failure: K.P.S. Gill

New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The biggest coordinated offensive planned against Maoist guerrillas, codenamed Operation Green Hunt, is going to be a ‘big failure’, says former police chief K.P.S. Gill, and advises the government to do a rethink on the operation.

‘This is not the way to do operations. Operation Green Hunt is going to be [...]

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“UN Gaza report written by Palestinians,” says Israel’s ambassador to UN

Jerusalem, Aug 16(ANI): Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Aharon Leshno Yaar, has said that the UN Gaza report was written solely “to appease the Arab-controlled Human Rights Council.”

Leshno Yaar claimed that the report was “written by Palestinians in Ramallah” [...]

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