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New Delhi: Communist Party of India Rajya Sabha MP P Sandosh Kumar on Thursday wrote to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and urged him to use "every possible diplomatic and humanitarian channel" to secure a stay on the execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen. In a letter to Jaishankar, Kumar said reports indicate that the execution may be carried out within days. "Nimisha's case has not only shaken the conscience of the public but also raised serious concerns about the lack of l ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on July 14 a petition seeking directions to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution. Indian national Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national, Talal Abdo Mehd and has been in a Yemeni prison for the last three years, is tentatively set to be executed on July 16, following the approval of the Yemeni President Rashad al ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jul 10 (PTI) PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday sought External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's intervention to save the Indian nurse facing execution in Yemen. The former chief minister of J-K also appealed to people to donate generously for raising blood money needed for getting clemency for Nimisha Priya. Priya, 38, a nurse from Palakkad district of Kerala, was convicted of murdering her Yemeni business partner in 2017. She was sentenced to death in 2020, and her final appeal wa ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): Communist Party of India (CPI ) Rajya Sabha MP Sandosh Kumar has written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, seeking immediate diplomatic intervention to save Nimisha Priya, an Indian national facing execution by Yemeni authorities on July 16. In a letter to Jaishankar, the CPI MP highlighted that Nimisha Priya's case has "shaken the conscience of the public" about the lack of legal safeguards. Also Read | Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Shashi Tharoor ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to make an attempt to save an Indian nurse, who is likely to be executed in Yemen on July 16 for murder charges. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi listed the matter for hearing on July 14 after advocate Subhash Chandran KR said diplomatic channels need to be explored at the earliest. Also Read | Vijay Deverakonda, Rana Daggubati and Pra ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save an Indian nurse, who is likely to be executed in Yemen on July 16 for murder charges. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi listed the matter for hearing on July 14 after advocate Subhash Chandran KR said diplomatic channels need to be explored at the earliest. He submitted that payment of blood money to the family of the deceased p ...Read More >
KOCHI: Vinitha Radhakrishnan's long vigil for her childhood friend Nimisha Priya teeters on the edge of desperation at the thought of what July 16 might bring.That's the date set by Yemen to execute the 37-year-old expat nurse from Kerala, convicted in 2018 of murdering her Yemeni business partner and kept on death row at the central prison in Sana'a since. It's a reality Vinitha and everyone else in Poonkayam village of Palakkad district still haven't reconciled to."We can never imagine Nimisha ...Read More >
Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) President and senior advocate Harjinder Singh Dhami on Wednesday demanded the death penalty of the culprits of sacrilege. Dhami said, "The culprits of sacrilege should get the death penalty. After 2015, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government brought a strict law against sacrilege by amending Section 295-A, but till date, neither the incidents of sacrilege that took place in Sachkhand Sri Harmandir Sahib Sri Darbar Sahib and elsewhere ha ...Read More >
Punjab govt will be better advised to -- instead of spending time and energy on constitutional, legal minutiae -- focus on fiscal prudence, economic policy framework, good governanc What does our political class do when they fail on all fronts? Well, it takes recourse to religion, hoping that it could be a useful opiate to numb the cognitive and cogitative faculties of people, thus diverting their attention from the real issues. So, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab, having failed ...Read More >
New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas on Wednesday wrote to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, urging immediate intervention to save Nimisha Priya, an Indian national facing execution by Yemeni authorities on July 16. As per the sources, "Ms. Nimisha Priya was convicted for the crime of murder in Yemen in June 2018 and the local court handed out death sentence to her. We have been closely following the matter since then. We have been in regular touch wit ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas on Wednesday wrote to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, urging immediate intervention to save Nimisha Priya, an Indian national facing execution by Yemeni authorities on July 16. As per the sources, Ms. Nimisha Priya was convicted for the crime of murder in Yemen in June 2018 and the local court handed out death sentence to her. We have been closely following the matter since then. We have been ...Read More >
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, July 9: Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been convicted of the murder of Yemeni citizen Talal Abdo Mehdi, is set to be executed on July 16. Priya has been in a Yemeni prison for the last three years. According to the negotiator S.J. Bhaskaran, after the news of the execution came on Tuesday, he will leave for Yemen. Priya's husband, Tomy Thomas, and their daughter are expecting that they will be able to prevail upon the family of Mehdi to resolve the case by payi ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram/ New Delhi: Sources have noted that they are closely following the matter on the Nimisha Priya case in Yemen, where she was convicted for the crime of murder in June 2018. According to sources, the matter continues to be closely followed. Samuel Jerome, negotiator in the case on behalf of Nimisha's mother Prema Kumari, stated that the Indian government had the option to intervene in the case to potentially save the nurse's life. Jerome explained that they had offered blood mo ...Read More >
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been convicted of the murder of Yemeni citizen Talal Abdo Mehdi, is set to be executed on July 16. Priya has been in a Yemeni prison for the last three years. According to the negotiator S.J. Bhaskaran, after the news of the execution came on Tuesday, he will leave for Yemen. Priya's husband, Tomy Thomas, and their daughter are expecting that they will be able to prevail upon the family of Mehdi to resol ...Read More >
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New Delhi: A mother sits in Kochi. Wrinkled fingers clutch a photo. Her daughter smiles in it - a nurse in crisp white. The daughter, Nimisha Priya, now waits in a prison cell in Yemen. On July 16, she is scheduled to die by execution. She moved to Yemen in 2008, carrying a stethoscope and hope. Her parents were aging. She needed to support them. For years, she worked in hospitals. She treated wounds. She took blood pressure. She spoke Arabic with nurses. She earned trust. Then she opened her o ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 8 (PTI) India is engaged in efforts to prevent the execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse convicted in a murder case in Yemen whose death sentence is set to be carried out on July 16, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Priya, hailing from Kollengode in Kerala's Palakkad district, was found guilty of murdering a Yemeni man in July 2017. He was her business partner. In 2020, a Yemeni court handed her the death sentence, and the country's Supreme Judicial Council ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 8 (PTI) India is engaged in efforts to prevent the execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse convicted in a murder case in Yemen whose death sentence is set to be carried out on July 16, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Priya, hailing from Kollengode in Kerala's Palakkad district, was found guilty of murdering a Yemeni man in July 2017. He was her business partner. Also Read | PM Narendra Modi Enjoys Indian Classical Music Performance With Brazilian President L ...Read More >
An Indian national Nimisha Priya -- who is on death row after being convicted for the murder of a Yemeni national -- will be executed on July 16. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) sources informed that the ministry is closely following the matter. "We have been in touch with local authorities and her family members and rendered all possible assistance. We continue to closely follow the matter," sources said. Priya, who hails from Kollengode town in Kerala's Palakkad, worked as a nurse in ...Read More >
New Delhi: Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen, is scheduled to be executed in Yemen on July 16. The victim, Talal Abdo Mehdi, was a local man with whom Nimisha had run a clinic, reported The Indian Express. Quoting Samuel Jerome Baskaran, a social worker involved in talks with Yemeni officials and Talal's family, the news report mentioned that he confirmed the execution date. "The public prosecutor has sent the letter of prosecution to the jail authoriti ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 8 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh State Women Commission chairperson Babita Chauhan on Monday sought the death penalty for the alleged mastermind of a religious conversion gang, who was arrested recently by the state police. Jamaluddin alias Chhangur Baba is accused of targeting girls from several communities and even maintained a 'rate list' for conversions, officials said. The shocking revelation has sparked statewide outrage. Condemning his actions, Chauhan described them as a "well-orches ...Read More >
Chandigarh: A panel of legal experts are being consulted for a law under which harsher punishment would be given for acts of "sacrilege" against religious scriptures, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said Monday. The government is not in a hurry and will not bring such a law which will require subsequent amendments, the minister said. Asked whether the legislation will be brought in the two-day special session of the Punjab Assembly starting July 10, Cheema said, "A panel of legal e ...Read More >
Kochi, Jul 6 (PTI) Chief Justice of India Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai on Sunday recalled the strong stand adopted by eminent jurist Justice V R Krishna Iyer against death sentence. Delivering a commemorative lecture here on the remarkable contributions of Justice Iyer, the CJI remembered his role at various levels-from an activist-lawyer to a minister and a judge. Justice Gavai, during his address, said Justice Iyer stood up for the cause of the poor and under-privileged and remained a human righ ...Read More >
New Delhi: A quaint walled residential complex in Sector 39A in south Chandigarh is home to top ministers and officials of the Punjab government. Uniformly marked white boards point to numbers of red-brick single storey bungalows in the complex. There is no name plate outside bungalow number 926. When you enquire if it is home to former Delhi chief minister and senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia, two guards from the neighbouring home helpfully say, "This is Satyendra Jain's kothi. Siso ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 5 (Xinhua) -- At least four people were killed and several others feared trapped after a portion of a coal mine collapsed Saturday in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, the police said. The portion of the mine collapsed at government-run Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) in Karma area of Ramgarh district, about 55 km north of Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand. "Four bodies were recovered from the accident site. However, the villagers took away three bodies before the pol ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday declared arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari a fugitive economic offender, observing that failed extradition attempts does not make him an "angel or immune from the prosecution for the violation of Indian laws". The order, which was reserved by the court of Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal on May 24, was pronounced on Saturday."Extradition attempt may have failed, but it will not make accused angel or immune from the prosecution for the violation of Indian laws. FEO pr ...Read More >
Chandigarh, July 5 (PTI) The AAP government will bring a law to ensure harsher punishment for acts of sacrilege against religious scriptures in a two-day special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha starting July 10. "Those who commit sacrilege will no longer escape, a new era of justice is about to begin," Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Neel Garg said in a post on X on Saturday. The Bhagwant Mann government will convene the special session of the Punjab Assembly on July 10 and 11. AAP leader Bal ...Read More >
Chandigarh, July 5 (PTI) The AAP government will bring a law to ensure harsher punishment for acts of sacrilege against religious scriptures in a two-day special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha starting July 10. "Those who commit sacrilege will no longer escape, a new era of justice is about to begin," Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Neel Garg said in a post on X on Saturday. Also Read | Dalai Lama Birthday: 'Will Continue to Focus on Promoting Human Values', Tibetan Spiritual Leader on His 90 ...Read More >
Kolkata: Sealdah trial judge Anirban Das, who sent the RG Kar rape-murder accused to life behind bars, sentenced a 45-year-old to death on Wednesday for murdering and robbing an elderly Chitpore couple 10 years ago. The judge ordered that Sanjay Sen, alias Bappa, "be hanged from the neck until dead" for murdering the couple -- both retired professors -- who trusted him and even paid for his marriage.The judge, on Jan 20, sentenced RG Kar rape-and-murder accused Sanjoy Roy to life behind bars and ...Read More >
Kolkata gangrape case: The main accused in the Kasba gangrape case Monojit Mishra wanted capital punishment for the culprits of the RG Kar rape case that shook the nation last year, a new report has said as new chilling details emerge regarding the crime. One of the women, quoted by Anandabazar Patrika, has accused expelled TMCP leader Mishra of sexually harassing her during a college picnic in 2023. "Alcohol arrangement was made under the supervision of Monojit. I went to a room to get my pho ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi HC has overturned the Sentence Review Board's (SRB) rejection of a premature release plea by Santosh Kumar Singh, convicted for the 1996 rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo. Justice Sanjeev Narula noted signs of Singh's reformation during incarceration and highlighted the SRB's failure to conduct a psychological assessment. "The matter is being remitted to the SRB for reconsideration," the Court ruled, issuing guidelines for future early release reviews. Si ...Read More >
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