Veteran BJP MLA Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl resigns from Tripura AssemblyTribal leader Hrangkhawl, was elected to the state Assembly on BJP's ticket from the Karanchara Assembly seat in northern Tripura's Unakoti...
29 Dec, 2022, 10.16 AM IST
Another BJP MLA resigns in Tripura"Today, I have submitted my resignation as an MLA to the secretary of the assembly as speaker Ratan Chakraborty was not present. I have res...
28 Dec, 2022, 05.19 PM IST
Agartala: Tripura regional party chairman Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman holds massive show of strengthTIPRA has made inroads in the tribal areas of the state. India's ace footballer and chief of Sikkim's political party Humro Sikkim Bhaichun...
12 Nov, 2022, 06.07 PM IST
Tripura: Ahead of polls, exodus of MLAs from BJP’s ally IPFT continuesTripura will go to assembly polls early next year. Mevar Kumar Jamatia, who had been the Forest and Tribal Welfare Minister in BJP-IPFT gov...
08 Nov, 2022, 06.47 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to visit Tripura on October 27In May this year Manik Saha became chief minister replacing Deb in a sudden political development. Tripura is witnessing a series of politi...
18 Oct, 2022, 09.21 PM IST
Tripura assembly elections: BJP to go door-to-door with report card of first termThe party will start the campaign in the next three months. Tripura chief minister Manik Saha told media persons “We will go door to door w...
17 Oct, 2022, 06.43 PM IST
BJP ally IPFT's MLA quits, likely to join TIPRALast month, BJP MLA Burba Mohan Tripura resigned from the assembly and joined TIPRA. Several MLA have resigned. Ashis Das, Sudip Roy Barman...
14 Oct, 2022, 11.22 PM IST
At least 720 executions in India since 1947According to the Project 39A data, 354 executions were carried out in Uttar Pradesh since Independence, followed by 90 in Haryana, 73 in Ma...
20 Mar, 2020, 02.51 PM IST
Nirbhaya hanging scheduled for Friday, convicts run out of legal optionsThe court was informed by the public prosecutor that second mercy pleas of Akshay and Pawan, were rejected on the ground that the first suc...
19 Mar, 2020, 10.20 PM IST
Yakub Memon first in 31 years to be executed in Nagpur jailThe last convicts to be hanged in the Nagpur jail were Wankhede brothers from Amravati in 1984 after they were found guilty in a murder cas...
30 Jul, 2015, 12.36 PM IST
APJ Abdul Kalam had opposed capital punishmentKalam had recently responded to a Law Commission consultation paper on capital punishment and had supported abolition of death sentence.
28 Jul, 2015, 04.41 PM IST
Abdul Kalam favours abolition of death penaltyKalam was responding to a Law Commission consultation paper on capital punishment and was one of the few people who have supported abolitio...
09 Jul, 2015, 04.53 PM IST
December 16 gangrape: Citing Kasab, court rejects plea for leniencyThe death sentence of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai attack found a mention in the verdict by a court while sending the four...
13 Sep, 2013, 09.17 PM IST
- Rope to hang Kasab made in Buxar jail?
As secrecy shrouded the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, inmates and authorities of Buxar prison believe that the rope used for ...
22 Nov, 2012, 04.57 PM IST
- NSUI wrests control of Delhi University Students' Union from ABVP
NSUI wrested complete control of the DUSU from ABVP by winning all three top posts, decimating the opposition camp.
15 Sep, 2012, 04.17 PM IST
- Godhra Case: Special court awards capital punishment to 11
A special court awarded capital punishment to 11 of the accused in the Godhra train burning case, upholding the conspiracy theory.
02 Mar, 2011, 08.03 AM IST
- Kasab conviction: Abolish the death sentence rather than hanging 'bullets'
President Pratibha Patil commuting the death sentence of eight to life should prompt a discussion whether the country needs to hang anyone ...
29 Jun, 2010, 09.16 PM IST