Govt promises humane jail stay for Mehul Choksi if extraditedThe Indian government has assured Belgium that Mehul Choksi, accused in the PNB fraud, will be held in humane conditions at Mumbai's Arthur...
08 Sep, 2025, 07.34 AM IST
Courts will have to release NIA, UAPA accused if special courts not setup: SC to CentreThe Supreme Court has criticized the Centre and Maharashtra government for designating existing courts as special courts, highlighting the ...
18 Jul, 2025, 06.32 PM IST
Inmates can sign legal papers, complaints: DG (prisons) amid row over Kejriwal issuing ordersThe AAP asserts that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is governing from Tihar jail. However, Director General (prisons) Sanjay Baniwal emphas...
15 Apr, 2024, 09.00 PM IST
Imran Khan, former Pakistan Prime Minister, sent to a distant prison that houses hardened criminals; held in small, dirty cellFormer Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan faces harsh detention conditions after graft conviction.
07 Aug, 2023, 10.05 PM IST
Nirmala Sitharaman Budget 2023 Speech: Here is the full textThis Budget hopes to build on the foundation laid in the previous Budget, and the blueprint drawn for India@100. We envision a prosperous a...
01 Feb, 2023, 05.44 PM IST
Prison authorities deny any special treatment to Partha, go bit soft on ArpitaPrison Department sources said that the cell of Chatterjee neither has any cot nor any chair. Chatterjee, on Friday night, provided with tw...
06 Aug, 2022, 06.53 PM IST
Delhi HC ensured 'all hands on deck' to curb COVID-19 spread in 2020Throughout the year, the high court dealt with a number of petitions relating to COVID-19, including pleas to provide adequate PPE kits to ...
28 Dec, 2020, 02.17 PM IST
Muslims need political say and AIMIM ensures that: Asaduddin OwaisiFresh from his party’s surprise victory in five assembly seats in Bihar, Owaisi told ET that AIMIM would soon decide on contesting polls in...
12 Nov, 2020, 09.35 AM IST
States told to set up Centres to detain illegal migrantsThe development comes amid the exercise to finalise the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam.
29 Jul, 2019, 10.59 AM IST
The precious smell of freedom in Cape TownCape Town contains multitudes: the sea and the mountain, the wildlife and the wines, hiking trails and nightlife destinations. Above all, i...
05 Nov, 2017, 12.00 AM IST
Hunger strikes great for dramatic effect, but rarely bring desired resultUnlike immolation, where the horror is instant, with a hunger strike the protest is prolonged, over agonizing days, weeks, years.
13 Aug, 2016, 06.46 AM IST
Jail life painful but I am stress free: Sahara's Subrata RoySubrata Roy says being confined to a prison cell with only basic amenities came as a 'rude shock' and he has often wondered what "wrong" he...
01 Feb, 2016, 04.54 PM IST
Parties like BJP, INLD, Congress make several promises to woo voters in HaryanaThe party also espouses the colour pink—something Hooda adopted two years ago, and mostly expressed in turbans of that hue.
04 Oct, 2014, 04.08 AM IST
S Ramadoss released from prison; slams Jayalalithaa governmentPMK leader S Ramadoss was on Saturday released from the central prison here after he obtained bail in all five cases against him.
11 May, 2013, 01.51 PM IST
- Amend law to avoid categorising terrorists as political prisoners: MHA to West Bengal
The home ministry has advised the West Bengal government to amend a law enacted by the Left Front government, in 1992.
13 Oct, 2012, 06.00 AM IST
- What Kalmadi, Raja, Balwa, Chandra, Goenka do as jailbirds in Tihar
An unprecedented number of well-known persons are currently lodged in Tihar Jail where they turn to books, newspapers, magazines and new ho...
27 Apr, 2011, 06.21 AM IST