700 inmates get job in hotel industry, 1200 more to get employed soon: Tihar prisons chiefReplying to a question over jail reforms during his tenure in Tihar, Director General (prisons) Sanjay Baniwal said, "We have started skill...
16 Apr, 2024, 04.30 PM IST
Bihar jail inmate swallows mobile phone during checkingIn a bizarre incident an inmate of Bihar's Gopalganj district jail reportedly swallowed a mobile phone during checking out of fear being ca...
20 Feb, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
70 pc of foreign prisoners in India under-trials: Govt dataThe recently released annual 'Prison Statistics India 2020' of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows there were 4,926 foreigners l...
09 Feb, 2022, 03.22 PM IST
Indians in jail: Undertrials up by 30 pc, convicts down by 15 pc since 2015The number of Indian undertrials lodged in the country's jails since 2015 has increased by over 30 per cent while that of convicts has redu...
04 Feb, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
4.83 lakh Indians in jail up to 2020-end, less than one-fourth convicts: dataAs many as 4.83 lakh Indian nationals were lodged across the country's jails by end of 2020, of which over 76 per cent were undertrials whi...
03 Feb, 2022, 03.24 PM IST
Number of prisons fall while inmate count rises 1.5%: ReportThe number of prisons at the national level has decreased by 3.3% from 1,351 in 2019 to 1,306 in 2020 while the number of inmates lodged in...
28 Dec, 2021, 09.43 AM IST
Why video conference facility not for foreign inmates?: HC asks prison authorityAdvocate Gautam Narayan, appearing for Director General, Prisons, said that further assistance on this aspect and reasons behind the policy...
16 Jul, 2021, 07.21 PM IST
Union home ministry asks prisons to screen foreign inmates, use videoconferencing for kinMore than 466,084 persons are lodged in 1,318 prisons across India, according to the 2018 report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB...
11 Apr, 2020, 08.07 AM IST
112 Wuhan evacuees sheltered at ITBP quarantine facility test negative for coronavirusSeventy-six Indians and 36 foreigners were taken to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force quarantine centre in the Chhawla area of th...
29 Feb, 2020, 05.12 PM IST
DCW notice to Delhi government over ‘horrific’ beggar homeThe secretary, Social Welfare, has been directed to file a detailed response to the Commission within 72 hours, according to DCW.
06 Jan, 2017, 12.11 AM IST
Three including two Saudi nationals killed in Manipur jail riotThe two Saudi nationals had been lodged in the jail since 2013 after they were arrested in Moreh, an Indo-Myanmar border town.
30 Jul, 2016, 06.19 PM IST
Over 200 people lodged in Jammu&Kashmir jails in militancy-related casesA total of 209 persons, 169 state subjects, four non-state subjects and 36 foreigners are lodged in militancy-related cases in various jail...
28 Jun, 2016, 02.57 PM IST
Foreign inmates protest against rice & ragi, demand wheat-based foodAccording to the prison manual, foreign prisoners should be kept in a separate cell to avoid clashes with local prisoners.
29 Feb, 2016, 10.05 AM IST
Rohingya inmates in India await clarity on repatriationThe fate of prisoners in West Bengal and other states belonging to Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya community remains uncertain since Myanmar ...
28 Aug, 2015, 09.17 PM IST
Tihar gets its own radio station -- TJ FM RadioIn yet another first, the country's largest prison Tihar Jail has now got its very own FM radio station.
30 Jul, 2013, 11.09 PM IST
- Phone facility extended to all Tihar inmates
Prisoners, irrespective of the offences committed by them, lodged in Tihar jail can now interact with their family members as the authoriti...
10 May, 2011, 04.34 PM IST
- NRI's house burgled
The house of an NRI Amar Chand was burgled and valuables were looted from the house, police said. The burgled items included golden ornamen...
05 Aug, 2008, 06.18 PM IST