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Police authorities in Kathmandu are facing flak from residents following a drive targeting young boys and a few girls for keeping long hair and wearing earrings. HT Image On Monday police detained 711 persons including three girls as part of a campaign to bring down incidents of theft, loot and other criminal activities. But instead of taking action based on past records of
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stanley cup heir hair and their appearance. After rounding them up from all corners of the city the police took down names, fingerprints and photos of the detainees before handing them over to their parents and guardians. Some unlucky ones also had their hair cut by the police in presence of their guardians and were warned not sport long hair in future. Is it against the law that I want to keep my hair long Are we being ruled by the Taliban, nepalnews quoted an unidentified youth who was forced to cut his hair short. The police action has sparked an online outrage with many accusing the authorities of trampling on personal liberty of residents and some demanding an apology from IGP Kuber Singh Rana. Who in Nepal Police comes up with idiotic ideas occasionally What right do they have to arrest people for looks, wrote senior journalist Damakant Jayshi on Twitter. Nepal Police has gone into retard mode if you think catching kids
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Taiwan s main opposition scored a comfortable by-election win over the ruling nationalists at the weekend, in what it said Sunday was a clear signal that voters were fed up with the government. HT Image The pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party DPP picked up 58.8 percent of the vote in the Yunlin county election in the south of the island -- its first win since losing legislative and presidential elections last year. People have used the vote to show their lack of confidence in President Ma Ying-jeou s administration, party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen said. I see new hope for the DPP. The DPP s candidate was standing against a former Kuomintang politician running as an independent and the official challenger from the ru
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stanley cup he roughly 125,000 eligible voters was less than 50 percent. The by-election was called after a court in June stripped the incumbent Kuomintang legislator of his position over a vote-buying scandal. It came just over two months ahead of local government elections on December 5 seen as a mid-term test for Beijing-friendly president Ma. Kuomintang Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung blamed the defeat on the independent candidate splitting the party vote while Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin, also from the Kuomintang, said people used their ballots to display their resentment. This is a warning to us. Ma s government fielded heavy criticism for its handling of a deadly typ
