“All four convicts Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma (2012 Delhi gang-rape case) were hanged at 5:30 am.’’ Their bodies were allowed to hang for 30 minutes before being brought down, said Director General Sandeep Goel confirming the death from Tihar jail. Nearly after seven years, three months and eight days after a young medical student was gang-raped, brutally tortured and left to die in a moving bus in Delhi, the four adult convicts – Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma – alive who took part in the heinous crime were hanged till death at 5.30…
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An elderly Sikh man was filmed being shoved out of a supermarket in east London after an altercation with the employees took place. The unnamed man can be seen in the recording, which was widely shared on social media on Wednesday, being pushed out of the Iceland store in Ilford after an argument with members of the staff. He is repeatedly seen saying that a staff member had pushed him. “You pushed me,” the elderly man is seen saying before staff members demand that he should “get out” of the store. The source of the film footage remains unclear but…
Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice last summer due to an exceptionally warm season, according to a study released Wednesday. Last summer’s ice loss in Greenland is enough to raise global sea levels by nearly a 10th of an inch — or 2.2 millimeters — in two months, based on a study by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of California, Irvine. “We knew this past summer had been particularly warm in Greenland, melting every corner of the ice sheet,” lead author Isabella Velicogna, senior project scientist at NASA’s JPL and a professor at University of California,…
The Uttar Pradesh Police in Aligarh have registered an FIR against an unidentified person who allegedly circulated pamphlets of a “fatwa” issued by Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed in the city. The FIR has been registered under section 505 (1) (b) (with intent to cause fear or alarm to the public) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of IPC at Kotwali police station. Hafiz Saeed is a UN-designated terrorist. The US has announced 10-million-dollar bounty on him. Superintendent of Police (crime) Arvind Kumar said that the matter is being probed in detail. He…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged India’s 1.3 billion citizens to put themselves under self-curfew on Sunday to protect themselves from the coronavirus, hours after the government announced it was barring all international flights from landing in the country for a week starting March 22. The announcement came as the number of coronavirus cases in India reached 173 on Thursday. Four people have died in India of the coronavirus, which originated in China and has spread quickly around the globe, claiming thousands of lives, hurting economic activity and forcing countries to go into lockdown.
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a Bill that seeks merger of three Ayurveda institutes into one by establishing an Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda by declaring it as an Institution of National Importance. If the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill, 2020 gets the Rajya Sabha’s approval the status of Institution of National Importance will be given to the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar, by conglomerating the cluster of Ayurveda Institutes at Gujarat Ayurveda University (GAU) campus, Jamnagar, Gujarat. The Bill seeks merger of the Institute of Post Graduate Teaching and Research…
Four men convicted of gangraping Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old Delhi paramedic student, in December 2012 will be hanged tomorrow at 5.30 am. The Patiala House Court rejected all petitions of the convicts, Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, who are to hang at 5.30 am on Friday. The convicts had requested that their execution be stopped, claiming that they still had legal remedies left. “No legal remedies are pending as of now. Pawan and Akshay’s second mercy was also not entertained by the President of India,” Public Prosecutor Irfan Ahmad told the court. “My…
Supreme Court directed the state Assembly Speaker N P Prajapati to convene a special session tomorrow for conducting the floor test which must conclude by 5 pm. The apex court, during today’s hearing, ordered that the floor test should be done by show of hands. A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud and comprising Justice Hemant Gupta said the test is essential to the political uncertainty in the state. The bench also directed the Karnataka DGP to provide security to 16 rebel Congress MLAs who may want to attend the floor test. “Voting would be by show of hands.…
In a fresh turn of events, Nirbhaya gang rape convict Mukesh claims that he wasn’t in Delhi on the fateful day. A Delhi court today reserved its order on plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking quashing of his death penalty. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana will pronounce the order later today. The plea claimed that Mukesh Singh was arrested from Rajasthan and brought to Delhi on December 17, 2012, and he was not present in the city on December 16, when the crime took place. The…
Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Thursday took oath as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha amidst unprecedented scenes of opposition members shouting slogans and walking out of the House. This is the first time ever that the House has witnessed slogan shouting and walkout during oath taking. Gogoi, 65, who retired as the Chief Justice of India in November last year after a tenure of 13 months, took oath in English in the name of God. As his name was called for oath taking, Congress and Left members started shouting slogans like ‘Shame on You’ and ‘Deal’.…