‘1,455 death penalties in 10 years’

AGENCIES

New Delhi, Feb 14: A total of 1,455 convicts were handed out death sentence in the past 10 years which amounts to one such penalty awarded every three days by the country's courts, a rights panel said Thursday, quoting official documents. "As per the records of the National Crimes Records More
MHA sends mercy petitions of 7 cases to President for decision

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 14: Expediting the pending mercy petitions, the Home Ministry has sent to the President for final decision seven cases of multiple murders, including one in which a convict who was out on bail on rape charge killed five members of victim's family. The recommendations in seven More
  • Kashmir

India Post tracker shows Afzal letter booked post-midnight on February 8 in Delhi, delivered to wife Tabassum on February 11 - after 51 hours of hanging

New Delhi, Feb 14: With the government facing all-round criticism for the way it went about informing Afzal Guru's family about his impending hanging, it now emerges that the India Post website has no More



  • Jammu

CE among 7 suspended

Jammu, Feb 14: On the recommendation of inquiry committee constituted for assessing the reasons for failure of 32 KV transmission towers in Poonch and Rajouri, the Government today placed under suspension More


  • South Asia

Pak defence analyst proposes joint nuclear power plants on Indo-Pak border

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad Feb 14: Eminent academic and defense analyst of Pakistan Dr Shireen Mazari has suggested that Pakistan should propose joint civil nuclear power plants to India along the border of the two countries More


  • World

UN concerned about Palestinian detainees, hunger-strikers

New York, Feb 14: A United Nations official on Wednesday expressed concern about the wellbeing of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and in particular about the condition of hunger striker Samer More


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