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Moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said the established norms of justice were blatantly ignored in the case.

India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed. Almost two hours later, they decided that Memon had been given “ample opportunity” to challenge his death sentence, and that...

People across India are paying homage to former President Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam – a career scientist and aerospace engineer turned reluctant politician – who took his last breath on Monday at the age of 83.

It seems the main opposition Congress is divided over the death sentence to the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon.

“Today we draw the line and mark the beginning of a new General Motors here in India”, Mr. Jacoby told a news conference in New Delhi, which was also attended by GM Chief Executive Mary Barra.

In 2007, he was convicted and sentenced to death under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA), a law that contained provisions incompatible with worldwide fair trial standards.

Yakub Memon was hanged a little before 7 am this morning in a Nagpur prison, less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his final appeal against his hanging in an unprecedented hearing that was held within the court premises in the middle of the night. Hours before the...

Senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Thursday questioned the “unseemly hurry” behind the execution of Yakub Memon saying no time was given to the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict to challenge the rejection of his mercy petition.

Yakub Memon was hanged at a prison in the western state of Maharashtra at around 6.30 a.m. local time, Indian Home Ministry spokesman Kuldeep Dhatwalia told CNN Thursday. Yakub Abdul Razak Memon declared terrorist and chartered accountant, who is convicted over his involvement in...

Security has been beefed up all across Maharashtra, particularly in Nagpur and Mumbai.

India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha today that the gunmen who stormed a police station and killed seven people in India’s Punjab had come from Pakistan, according to a preliminary report. Pakistan regrets the unsubstantiated and unwarranted...

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory against carrying live media coverage of anti-terrorist operations by security forces at Gurdaspur in Punjab.

It was not just the rejection of his mercy plea by President Pranab Mukherjee late Wednesday night that sealed Yakub’s fate, the final seal on his fate came at 4.50 am in Court Room 4 of the apex court which dismissed the fresh petition filed on his behalf.

He urged the government of India to refrain from casting baseless allegations and work with Pakistan to eliminate terrorism from the region and create an environment of peace and amity in South Asia.

He, however, lauded the efforts of Punjab police and SWAT team for their bravery in killing the three terrorists.