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"Has certain requirements to fulfil...": MEA on status of 8th Indian natio
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Clarifying the status of the eighth former Indian Navy officer, who was put on death row by a Qatar court in an espionage case before being released, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said he has certain requirements to fulfil.
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US: Alabama carries out world's first nitrogen gas execution
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In the world's first known execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the US state of Alabama put to death Kenneth Eugene Smith, a prisoner on death row for his role in a contract killing more than three decades ago, The Washington Post reported.
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"What kind of justice system is this?": Congress MP Manish Tewari on 8 for
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Congress leader Manish Tewari on Saturday came down heavily on the Qatari jurisprudence or the system of dispensing justice over the death sentence to eight retired Indian Navy personnel, calling it 'arbitrary' and 'capricious'.
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Nurse on death row in Yemen: CPI MP Viswam seeks PM Modi's intervention in
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urging him to intervene in the matter of Nimisha Priya, a nurse from Kerala, who is currently facing the threat of execution in Yemen.
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"Kept quiet to indulge in politics": Agnimitra Paul's accusation on Mamata
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
"The ragging had been happening for a long time and the administration knew about it. The Jadavpur Police Station is 100m away. They also knew about it. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee also knew about it but nothing was done. If the death would not have happened then this would have continued
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"ISRO will help us in containing ragging...": West Bengal Governor's sarca
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday, throwing sarcasm over the blame for the Jadavpur University student's death, said that the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) will help in containing ragging at campuses.
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WB: Dragged into JU student death row, Governor responds
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Blamed by Education Minister Bratya Basu for the student death at Jadavpur University (JU), West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Wednesday said he was a "responsible Governor."
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Kerala HC decides to conduct 'mitigation investigation' for first time in
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Kerala High Court, for the first time in its history, has decided to conduct a 'mitigation investigation' of two convicts on death row.
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28 years after murder, SC directs release of death row convict after findi
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Twenty-eight years after the murder, Supreme Court on Monday ordered the release of a death row convict after finding he was a minor at the time of the crime.
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Mumbai train blast case: Information compromises country's security, can't
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Delhi High court on Friday dismissed the appeal of Ehtesham Quubddin Siddiqui, Mumbai Train 2006 blast death row convict against the Central Information Commission's order.
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Five judge SC bench to consider norms related to mitigating circumstances
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): The Supreme Court has referred to a larger bench of five judges the issue related to framing of guidelines on potential 'mitigating circumstances' that should be taken into account while dealing with cases where death penalty is under consideration.<
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Snoop Dogg recounts fainting after seeing Tupac Shakur following his fatal
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 29 (ANI): American rapper and songwriter Snoop Dogg has stated that he was not expecting to see the legendary Tupac Shakur in such terrible shape when the latter was hospitalised following his 1996 Las Vegas shooting.
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