Punjab [India], Jul 18 (ANI): Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday wrote a letter to Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy for the early release of Gurdeep Singh Khera, who is serving double life sentences in terror cases, on the basis of his good conduct.
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a special remission to prisoners on October 2, to mark the 150th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Jul 17 (ANI): An open-air jail cafe is the latest attraction in Himachal Pradesh, as over 135 prisoners are working at six mobile vans in Shimla, Nahan and Dharamshala.
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 10 (ANI): With around 30 prisoners in jails across Madhya Pradesh been awarded death penalty in different cases, the state is on a hunt for executioners as currently there are no people at the post.
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 08 (ANI): The Afghan armed forces have rescued at least seven civilians who were kept as prisoners inside a Taliban-run cell in southern Uruzgan province.
Tokyo [Japan], July 06 (ANI): Shoko Asahara, the leader of the doomsday cult which carried out a fatal nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, has been executed, Japanese officials confirmed on Friday.
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): India and Pakistan on Sunday exchanged the lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen of each country lodged in the jails.
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): The Indian Government on Tuesday repatriated six Pakistani prisoners, including a woman and a child, back to their country through the Attari-Wagah border.