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Bharat Bandh today: Which key groups, political parties to join protest against SC's reservation ruling
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Bharat Bandh today: Which key groups, political parties to join protest against SC's reservation ruling

India TV News  

A nationwide bandh has been called today by Dalit and Adivasi organisations to protest the Supreme Court's ruling on implementing creamy layer and sub-quota within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes reservations. Supreme Court's ruling on reservation The Supreme Court recently ruled that states can create sub-categories within SC and ST reservations, allowing the most marginalised groups within these categories to …

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Bangladesh shuts schools and universities after six killed in protests
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bangladesh shuts schools and universities after six killed in protests

Al Jazeera  

Bangladesh has ordered schools and universities across the country to close indefinitely after six people were killed in protests over quotas in government jobs. At least six people were killed on Tuesday as demonstrators mobilised for another day in several cities, defying earlier calls by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Supreme Court to return to class. Three died in …

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Environmentalists urge US to plan ‘phasedown’ of Alaska’s key oil pipeline amid climate concerns
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Environmentalists urge US to plan ‘phasedown’ of Alaska’s key oil pipeline amid climate concerns

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — Environmental groups on Wednesday petitioned the U.S. Department of Interior to review climate impacts related to the decades-old trans-Alaska pipeline system and develop a plan for a “managed phasedown” of the 800-mile pipeline, which is Alaska’s economic lifeline. “Every drop of oil that moves through the pipeline is more climate devastation, both here in Alaska and around …

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Myanmar’s ethnic Karen guerrillas claim to have seized the last army base defending key border town
9 months ago

Myanmar’s ethnic Karen guerrillas claim to have seized the last army base defending key border town

Associated Press  

BANGKOK — Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday claimed to have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy township in eastern Myanmar, virtually clearing the way for them to take over the town of Myawaddy, the major crossing point for trade with Thailand. The Karen National Union, the ethnic group’s leading political body, said in a …

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Pink-haired Just Stop Oil eco-clown admits the group of zealots are just too white and middle-class
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Pink-haired Just Stop Oil eco-clown admits the group of zealots are just too white and middle-class

Daily Mail  

A Just Stop Oil activist stunned fellow eco-zealots at a key strategy meeting with some home truths – railing against them for being too 'white and middle-class'. Just Stop Oil leaders boasted they would work with other groups to try to unseat Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer from his Holborn and St Pancras constituency. The critic – called Olive, and …

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Sudan’s conflict reaches a key city that had been a haven for many. Aid groups suspend work or flee
1 year ago

Sudan’s conflict reaches a key city that had been a haven for many. Aid groups suspend work or flee

Associated Press  

CAIRO — Sudan’s deadly conflict between a powerful paramilitary force and the army has reached a strategic city that had been a haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and key humanitarian groups say they have been forced to suspend work there or flee. On Tuesday, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, leader of the Rapid Support Forces, announced that they …

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Gansu teams keep residents in good health
1 year, 10 months ago

Gansu teams keep residents in good health

China Daily  

Members of a medical team talk with an elderly resident in Liangzhou district, Wuwei, Gansu province. CHINA DAILY Doctor visits, medicine and treatment being provided for patients at home Recently, hundreds of medical teams were busy shuttling between residential communities and villages in Liangzhou district of Wuwei, Gansu province. We immediately mobilized 4,500 people and organized them into 482 teams …

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Five key takeaways from seventh January 6 US Capitol riot hearing
2 years, 5 months ago

Five key takeaways from seventh January 6 US Capitol riot hearing

Al Jazeera  

Tuesday’s wide-ranging hearing attempted to link former President Donald Trump to far-right groups that stormed Capitol. Former President Donald Trump’s role dominated the seventh hearing this year of the US congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Whether discussing meetings at the White House after the 2020 election or the role of far-right groups in …

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Who are the Taliban? For decades the Taliban’s leaders have been shrouded in secrecy. Here’s what we know about its key players
3 years, 4 months ago

Who are the Taliban? For decades the Taliban’s leaders have been shrouded in secrecy. Here’s what we know about its key players

CNN  

CNN — The Taliban’s leadership structure has long been a mystery, with little known about how it works beyond the group’s most influential figures. But a look at the group’s leadership structure suggests that the nature of the new government could very well mirror the Taliban’s previous hard-line regime. Hailing from the Taliban heartland of Spin Boldak, in southern Kandahar …

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Joe Biden leads President Trump by double digits nationally, USC poll suggests
4 years, 2 months ago

Joe Biden leads President Trump by double digits nationally, USC poll suggests

LA Times  

President Trump finishes a campaign rally Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa. Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump by double digits nationally — 54% to 43% in the poll’s daily tracking, a margin that has remained almost unchanging since summer. Compared with the final USC poll four years ago, Trump has lost 4 points among all voters 65 and older, for …

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每日一词∣中国人民政治协商会议 Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
5 years, 3 months ago

每日一词∣中国人民政治协商会议 Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)

China Daily  

9月20日，国家主席习近平强调，要把人民政协制度坚持好、把人民政协事业发展好，提高政治协商、民主监督、参政议政水平。习近平强调，人民政协是中国共产党领导各民主党派、无党派人士、人民团体和各族各界人士在政治制度上进行的伟大创造。 President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed upholding the system of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and improving the CPPCC work of political consultation, democratic oversight, and participation in and deliberation of state affairs. Xi noted that the CPPCC is a great creation on the political system by the CPC and all other political parties, personages without party affiliation, …

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