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Nitish Katara murder: Vikas Yadav pleads to SC for 'leniency', s
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 21 (ANI): Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term without any remission in the brutal murder of Nitish Katara in 2002, on Wednesday pleaded to the Supreme Court for leniency in the case and sought that his prison term should be reduced.
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Dahal meets Nepal to mend ties between UML, Maoist Centre
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Sept. 10: In a bid to mend ties with the Communist Party of Nepal -Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) leader and former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister and Communist Party of Nepal -Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting with the former.
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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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CPN-UML not to endorse Nepal's Constitution amendment proposal
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Pokhara (Nepal), Aug. 13 (ANI): Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) Vice-Chairman Bamdev Gautam on Saturday said that his party would not let the House endorse the Constitution amendment proposal as planned by the ruling parties.
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Oli's rejects Dahal's proposal to join Nepal's new govt.
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kathmandu, July 30 (ANI): Nepal's caretaker Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli on Saturday said his party, the Communist Party of Nepal -Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) will not join the new government likely to be formed under the leadership of Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist Centre (C
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Dahal to urge Oli's UML to join new government in making
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kathmandu, July 28 (ANI): Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-MC), who is likely to become the next Prime Minister on Thursday said he is holding talks with the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist(CPN-UML) leadership and would urge th
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Prosecution to appeal against Oscar Pistorius' six-year sentence
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Johannesburg, July 21 (ANI): Describing Oscar Pistorius' six-year jail sentence as 'shockingly too lenient', South African prosecutors have confirmed that they will appeal against the disgraced Paralympian's sentence for murdering his girlfriend.
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Dravid believes T20 format allows batsmen to experiment fearlessly
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 14 (ANI): Former India captain Rahul Dravid believes that having the liberty to 'practice and experiment' risky shots in addition to the leniency shown by team managements with regards to failures are helping batsmen to improve and flourish in the T20 format.
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