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IIT-Delhi fellowships awarded to University of Canterbury researchers
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
A joint initiative between IIT-Delhi and eight New Zealand universities, the IIT-Delhi India-New Zealand Centre aims to bolster academic and cultural exchange between India and New Zealand through joint research in climate change, disaster management, urban planning, and environmental monito
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Myanmar junta reduces ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's prison sentences by
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Myanmar Junta reduced the prison sentences of the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi by six years in clemency connected to a religious holiday.
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Aung San Suu Kyi gets partial pardon from Myanmar's military
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The Myanmar military has announced clemency for imprisoned democratically elected civilian leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint. Both have been incarcerated since February 2021 coup with Suu Kyi having been convicted of 19 offences that carried a total prison sentence of 33 years
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Trump says FBI returned his passports but agents took 'everything in sight
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 17 (ANI): Former US President Donald Trump said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI returned his passports after taking them during the raid of his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida last week.
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FBI seized 11 sets of classified material including top secret documents f
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 13 (ANI): The FBI seized 11 sets of classified records during the search of former US President Donald J Trump's Florida property Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, including some materials marked as "top secret/sensitive compartmented information".
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Trump pardons 26 individuals including Manafort, Stone and Charles Kushner
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 24 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) has granted clemency to Roger Stone and Paul Manafort -- two associates convicted as part of the former special counsel Robert Muller's investigation of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 Presidential
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Trump grants pardons to 15 individuals including two charged in Russia pro
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 23 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a wave of pardons including two for men who pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller's investigation, and also to Republican allies who once served in Congress and military contractors involved in the deadly shooting
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US judge formerly dismisses case against ex-NSA Michael Flynn, says pardon
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to dismiss the case against Michael Flynn following President Donald Trump's pardon of his former national security adviser, but said that the grant of clemency does not mean that Flynn is innocent of lying to the Federal B
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SC seeks Centre's reply in plea for guidelines for time bound disposal of
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre on a plea seeking directions for issuance of guidelines for time bound disposal of clemency and mercy petitions for cases in which death penalty have been awarded.
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Plea filed in SC seeking guidelines for time-bound disposal of clemency, m
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions for issuance of guidelines for disposal of clemency and mercy petitions for cases in which death penalty has been awarded, in a time-bound manner.
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Uncivilised, heartless crime of acid attack doesn't deserve any clemency:
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India) March 19 (ANI): The uncivilised and heartless crime of acid attack does not deserve any kind of clemency, the Supreme Court has said while enhancing the compensation to be paid to a victim by two convicts.
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Canada requests clemency for citizen sentenced to death in China
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], Jan 16 (ANI): Canada has officially asked China to spare its citizen, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg's life after he was handed a death penalty in a drug trafficking case.
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