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The apex body of editors of news channels in India has expressed its dismay over the latest notices reportedly issued to three channels – ABP News, Aajtak and NDTV – on the questionable pretext that their coverage pertaining to Yakub Memon’s death sentence...

Authorities in the Indian capital of New Delhi arrested a journalist, who allegedly wanted to join the Islamic State group in Iraq, local media reports said Friday. He approached Iraq embassy where officials found his talks “incoherent” and handed him over to police.

A case has been registered by the Delhi police who started investigating the letter.

In November 2012, India executed a militant convicted for a 2008 attack by militant gunmen on Mumbai’s landmark Taj Hotel and other targets that killed 166 people, ending what many had seen as an undeclared moratorium on capital punishment.

Yakub Memon has been hanged in Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday, July 30.

India on Thursday executed convicted bomb plotter Yakub Memon for his role in a series of coordinated attacks that killed hundreds of people in Mumbai in 1993.

The demand for returning Afzal Guru’s mortal remains to his family is back in focus in Kashmir after the body of Yakub Memon was handed over to his family yesterday for the last rites.

Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state. His petition to the President sought mercy; in the Supreme Court, his lawyers argued that judges had not followed due process when upholding his death sentence earlier this week.

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

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.

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.