The Bulandshahr prison was awarded a five-star rating and the tag 'Eat Right Campus'by the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI), informed a press release.
French 'serial killer' Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, left for France on Friday after being freed from a 20-year spell in a Nepali prison, reported France24.
Gopal Shiwakoti, lawyer of Charles Sobhraj, late on Thursday evening told ANI that he would be kept at central jail for the night as a "special guest". "When he was asked to stay as a special guest here in the prison for the night, then he replied, 'I am happy. I require special attention
Former Delhi Prisons chief Sandeep Goel has been suspended from his service almost a month after conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar made sensational claims that he paid Rs 12.5 crore to the Indian Police Service officer as 'protection money'.
The United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday (local time) urged Myanmar's Junta to "immediately release all arbitrarily detained prisoners", including Aung San Suu Kyi and ex-president Win Myint.
The French citizen with Vietnamese and Indian parentage committed a string of murders throughout Asia in the 1970s. Sobhraj, who has been implicated in more than 20 killings, served 21 years in prison in India for poisoning a French tourist and killing an Israeli national.
Prisoners convicted for heinous offences against women and children are not eligible to be granted special remission as part of the celebrations for 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav', said Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday.
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has strengthened the 'E-prisons' portal by providing financial assistance to the states and the Union Territories (UTs) to the tune of Rs 100 crores recently, Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra informed the Rajya Sabha.
Over 100 persons were convicted and sentenced to death by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa courts in 2022 and the total of prisoners with death sentences has crossed 450 including women, reported Pak vernacular media Aeen.
The Plea stated that the number of inmates in Tihar Jail has exceeded the actual capacity of each Barrack and it is on record that there is a huge rise in the total number of inmates in the said Complex.
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul's popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, of the main opposition Republican's Peoples' Party (CHP), to two years and seven months in prison on charges of insulting members of the Supreme Electoral Board following his big victory in Istanbul's controve