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New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside the decision of the sentence review board which had rejected a plea for premature release of Santosh Kumar Singh, who is serving life term for the 1996 rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo. Justice Sanjeev Narula said there is an element of reformation in Singh and referred the matter back to the sentence review board (SRB) to consider afresh the convict's premature release plea. "I have found some element of refor ...Read More >
The Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) has halted the supply of electricity to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium after not being satisfied with Karnataka State Cricket Association's (KSCA) compliance with fire safety regulations. This decision has been taken after the Director General of the Department of Fire and Emergency Services instructed BESCOM to cut power because of unsettled safety concerns. Currently, the iconic stadium, which is the home to current Indian Premier League (IPL) cham ...Read More >
Mumbai: Sixty-three-year-old former SIMI activist Saqib Nachan, who was arrested by NIA in the ISIS Maharashtra module case, died on Saturday morning while receiving treatment at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi. He was under treatment for six days following a brain haemorrhage.Nachan, convicted twice earlier in terror cases, was arrested in Dec 2023 for allegedly running ISIS modules in Delhi and Maharashtra's Padgha village. Following Saqib's demise, authorities deployed over 200 police personnel ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin praised the Chennai Mahila court's verdict after it awarded the life sentence for a minimum period of 30 years without remission and a fine of Rs 90,000 to the accused Gnanasekaran, who has been convicted of sexually harassing a student on the Anna University campus in December last year.In a post on X, Tamil Nadu CM said the state police responded through action to those who merely pretend to care about women's safety."Tamil Nadu Police has responded ...Read More >
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], December 12: Navanc, a pioneering FinTech startup building India's first AI-powered property score and stack for secured lending and insurance practices, has successfully raised USD 1 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by Prarambh Ventures, with participation from Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), Brigade REAP FirstPort Capital, and marquee angel investors Also Read | US: Joe Biden Commutes Roughly 1,500 Sentences and Pardons 39 People in Biggest Singl ...Read More >
US President Joe Biden on Sunday pardoned his son Hunter Biden of conviction in gun-related charges in Delaware and has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in California. US President Joe Biden on Sunday pardoned his son Hunter Biden of conviction in gun-related charges in Delaware and has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in California. Biden reversed his earlier pledge in doing that to not pardon his son. "Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," Biden said in a statement. "From the day I took o ...Read More >
Two United States congressmen, James McGovern (Democrat-Massachusetts) and Thomas Massie (Republican-Kentucky), have urged President Joe Biden to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. They said Assange's guilty plea could set a precedent for prosecuting journalists under espionage charges. The plea deal, which ended in June 2024, ended Assange's 14-year-long legal battle and permitted him to return to Australia. In a letter dated November 1, McGovern and Massie said they were relieved that A ...Read More >
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