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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.

However, the Apex Court upheld the death sentence and Memon was hanged shortly after, on 30th July, 2015. The tailor said Muslims, who make up about 14 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people but a disproportionately large share of death row inmates, were “being...

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...

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

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.

The driver of Punjab Roadways bus, which was targeted by the terrorists in a pre-dawn attack in Dinanagar town in this district, showed tremendous presence of mind and helped save lives. “As per my routine I was on my way to buy milk”. I saw something wired to the bridge.

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

Rebels have been fighting for an independent Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan since 1989.

“Here in the United States, we have seen all kinds of home-grown terrorism and tragically recent history reminds us how even a single individual motivated by a hateful ideology with access to risky weapons can inflict horrendous harm on Americans”, Mr. Obama said.