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SC to hear matter of improving current state of prisons, inmates today
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the matter related to improve the living conditions of inmates in jails across the country, which include overcrowding, delay in trial, custodial deaths, inadequacy of staff, insubstantial food and inadequate clothing a
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Jailed MQM leader Waseem Akhtar takes oath as Karachi mayor
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Aug. 30 (ANI): Jailed Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader (MQM) Waseem Akhtar on Tuesday took oath as Karachi's mayor and Arshad Vohra as his deputy at Bagh-i-Quaid-i-Azam.
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Turkey jails three senior diplomats for links with failed coup attempt
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Aug. 27 (ANI): Turkey on Saturday arrested three former top Turkish diplomats on charges related to the recent failed coup attempt by a section of the military.
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Pak shoemaker jailed for designing special Peshawari chappals for Indian a
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Aug. 27 (ANI): A Pakistani fan of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan has landed himself in jail for designing Peshawari chappals made out of deer skin.
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Bid to challenge `shockingly lenient` Oscar Pistorius sentence rejected
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], Aug 26 (ANI): A judge in South Africa on Friday rejected state prosecutors' bid to challenge the six-year jail term imposed on disgraced former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius for murdering his girlfriend.
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Suicide the easy way out, must ensure Nirbhaya convict swings from gallows
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 25 (ANI): With Vinay Sharma, one of the four death row convicts in the sensational December 16 gangrape case, allegedly trying to commit suicide in Tihar Jail, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday asserted that the responsible jail authorities must foil any su
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I would have been satisfied had he died: Nirbhaya's mother on Vinay&#
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 25 (ANI): Reacting to one of the six accused in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case Vinay Sharma's alleged attempt to commit suicide at Tihar Jail late last night, victim Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Thursday said she would have satisfied had he died, but the incident i
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There's some conspiracy as govt is planning to release him: Vinay
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 25 (ANI): After Vinay Sharma, one of the six accused in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, allegedly attempted suicide at Tihar Jail late last night, his father Hari Ram Sharma on Thursday alleged that there is some "conspiracy" (mili bhagat) as the "government is
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Suicide attempt by Nirbhaya rape convict raises questions about jail secur
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai, Aug. 25 (ANI): Social activist and eminent lawyer, Abha Singh on Thursday blamed the judiciary for not providing adequate security drills to prevent Vinay Kumar, one of the accused in the Nirbhaya case, from attempting suicide in the Tihar jail.
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Nirbhaya case: Convict attempts suicide in Tihar, critical
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 25 (ANI): Vinay Sharma, one of the five convicts sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Nirbhaya in a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012, attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself last night in Tihar Jail.
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Protesting Bangladesh varsity students demand more residential halls
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka, Aug.17 (ANI): Hundreds of students of Jagannath University are protesting in front of the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka over a demand for more residential halls in place of Dhaka's old central jail land.
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Pacific Mall partners with Tihar Jail to promote TJs - "Redefining Li
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug.16 (ANI-Newsvoir): Inmates of Tihar Jail finally get their break. Pacific Mall has entered into an association with Tihar Jail to sell products manufactured by in-house prisoners,at Pacific Mall, Tagore Garden from 16th till 19th August 2016. The exhibition themed "Redefi
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