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Last Updated:October 16, 2025, 6:40 PM IST Several fugitives, including Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, have raised the issue of “poor conditions” of Indian prisons to counter their extradition in foreign courts Shah stated that a zero-tolerance policy must be adopted not just against crime and corruption within the country, but also towards…
Quick Reads Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. Ten violent offenders escaped from the Orleans Justice Centre in New Orleans. Inmates accessed a maintenance area through a toilet-concealed window. Graffiti left at the scene included messages mocking the escape attempt. Ten inmates, described as violent offenders, escaped from the Orleans Justice Centre in New Orleans,…
Last Updated:January 17, 2025, 09:36 IST Indian national Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, on Thursday was sentenced to eight years for an attempted attack on the White House with a rented truck on May 22, 2023. Indian-origin Sai Varshith Kandula has been pronounced eight years of imprisonment. (Courtesy: X/@SiddharthKG7) Indian national Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, on…
The cataclysmic events in Syria have taken the world, at least much of it, by surprise. Their full magnitude and ramifications will be understood only with time. How did proud, progressive Syria come to such a pass? The only parallel is Afghanistan, where a militant group simply strolled into Kabul and took over the country…
Chennai: The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified Friday into a cyclone – named Pengalpronounced ‘Feinjal’ – and is likely to make a landfall close to Puducherry on Saturday afternoon. It will cross the Tamil Nadu coast between Karaikal and Mamallapuram, the India Meteorological Department said, with a wind speed of 70-80 km…
Reported By: Ankur Sharma Last Updated: July 17, 2024, 01:34 IST The ministry had prepared a Model Prison Manual, 2016, and a Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act in 2023 and had shared these with all state governments and union territory administrations for their guidance and implementation in their respective jurisdictions. Representational image The home…