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Plea moved against overcrowding of prisoners in Tihar withdrawn from Delhi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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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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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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Akali Dal demands release of Sikhs languishing in jail across country
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Hitting out at the Central government over Sikhs languishing in jails across the country, Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi) president Paramjit Singh Sarna on Friday questioned why Sikh prisoners cannot be released while the convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination were rel
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Over 8,000 Indians lodged in foreign jails: MEA
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"As per the information available with the Ministry, the number of Indian prisoners, including under-trials, in foreign jails at present is 8441, out of which 4,389 are lodged in jails of Gulf countries (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman)," MoS Muraleedharan
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States are competent to take decisions on early release of prisoners: MHA
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Administration and management of prisoners is the responsibility of respective State governments and they are competent enough to take appropriate decisions in matters of early release of prisoners, the Ministry of Home Affairs told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
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Prisoners in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur Jail acquiring digital knowledge
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur Jail, convicted and undertrial prisoners who have been cut off from the mainstream of society due to crime are acquiring digital knowledge which will help them become self-reliant.
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Central prison in Afghanistan's Herat launches capacity building programme
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Central Prison of Herat province has started to provide capacity-building programmes to the inmates in order to incorporate change amongst the prisoners.
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9 inmates escape from jail in Nagaland's Mon, search operation launched
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
As many as nine inmates of a district jail escaped in Nagaland's Mon, following which a massive search operation was launched to nab the fled prisoner, according to an official on Sunday.
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Drug addiction grows in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Citing the same report, the Dawn newspaper last month said that the number of these addicts is increasing at the rate of 40,000 per year, making Pakistan one of the most drug-affected countries in the world.
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Myanmar junta to release four foreign prisoners in amnesty
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The amnesty will release 5,744 prisoners to mark Myanmar's National Day. And among them, Sean Turnell, an Australian economist who has been detained since the regime seized power in February 2021, and Vicky Bowman, a former British ambassador to Myanmar who was arrested in August will als
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