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Prisoners convicted for heinous offences against women, children not eligi
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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.
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MHA provided Rs 100 cr to states, UTs to strengthen E-prisons portal: MoS
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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.
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Pakistan: Over 100 persons convicted, sentenced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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.
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Plea moved against overcrowding of prisoners in Tihar withdrawn from Delhi
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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.
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Erdogan uses the weaponised judiciary to block Imamoglu, his strongest riv
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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
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UP govt to train Fatehgarh jail inmates in block printing under One Distri
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The ODOP scheme is the government's approach which provides a framework for value chain development and the support infrastructure alignment. As per the state government, this programme aims to encourage such indigenous and specialized products and crafts in UP that are found nowhere else.
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Boris Becker freed from Britain prison, returns to Germany
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
As per ESPN, the 55-year-old German, who has been living in Britain since 2012, was released on Thursday, following which, he travelled back to Germany. The six-time Grand Slam champion was sentenced to 30 months of prison back in April for illicitly transferring a large amount of money and
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Former Pak Army chief Bajwa wrong on terming 1971 surrender as political d
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Former Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Wednesday repudiated former Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa's diction that the 1971 Bangladesh war debacle was a political defeat and not the defeat of the Pak military.
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Kazakhstan's officials remain silent about "misery of ethnic Kazakh prison
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The position taken by Kazakh officials comes despite the presence of around 200,000 people from China's Xinjiang region in the post-Soviet state, many of whom have existing ethnic links to Kazakhstan.
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Basketball star Brittney Griner returns to US after prisoner exchange with
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Brittney Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport nine months ago. She was accused of possession of vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil and sentenced in August to nine years in prison. Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death" was detained Thailand
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Pakistan panel reveals 974 'missing people' in detention centres, 616 in p
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In the report, the Missing Persons Commission said that 974 people declared "missing" were in detention centres while 616 remained in prisons.
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"Other swaps with US possible", says Putin after Basketball star exchanged
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Responding to a question about the possibility of the next prisoner exchange with the US, Putin said, "Yes, everything is possible. This is the result of negotiations in search of a compromise. In this case, compromises were found and we are not against continuing this work in the future."
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