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Amritsar, May 2: The body of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was on Thursday brought to Amritsar onboard a special Air India aircraft from Lahore, where he died following a murderous assault in a jail. It was a grim end to the battle waged by his family to secure his release after he had spent over two decades in Pakistani jails as the plane landed at Rajasansi Airport where political leaders

Lahore/Islamabad, May 2: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital around 12.45 a.m. on Thursday after being comatose for six days following a brutal assault by other inmates of a high-security jail, officials said. "I received a call from the doctor on duty (at Jinnah Hospital) at 1 am (1:30 IST) informing me that Sarabjit is no more," Mahmood Shaukat, the head of a

Lahore, May 1: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, severely injured in a brutal assault last week, has slipped into a non-reversible coma and doctors in a Lahore hospital are struggling to save his life, official sources said on Wednesday. The deterioration in Sarabjit’s condition could lead to brain death, the sources told PTI. His measurements on the Glasgow Coma Scale, which indicates the

New Delhi, May 1: Tremors were felt in parts of North India at 12.30 pm after an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale was epicentred on the border between Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Buildings shook in Delhi, offices and homes were evacuated in parts of Kashmir, and tremors were reported across the border in Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan. The tremors were felt for about 20

New Delhi: Oil companies on Tuesday reduced the price of petrol by Rs. 3 per litre, without taxes, the highest cut in over five years on falling international prices. This is the fourth cut in petrol prices since March. Oil firms review the price of petrol every two weeks. While petrol price has been deregulated since June 2010 and the price is market determined, the government still controls the

New Delhi, Apr 30: Harin Raval resigned as additional solicitor general Tuesday, a day after locking horns with Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati on the vetting of the CBI status report on its probe into the allocation of coal blocks. Confirming that he had quit, Raval said that he has already sent his resignation letter but declined to dwell on the reasons for taking the step. "You know that I don

New Delhi, Apr 30: Opposition, including BJP, Left and other parties, on Tuesday walked out of Lok Sabha, charging the government with indulging in one scam after another and saying they would not be party to the passage of the Finance Bill and the Railway Budget. The opposition protest came after Speaker Meira Kumar announced that the money bills would be passed without discussion, as decided by

New Delhi, Apr 30: A Delhi court Tuesday acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. District Judge J.R. Aryan convicted the other five accused in the case related to the killing of five people in Delhi Cantonment area following the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct 31, 1984. The Congress leader was facing trial along with Balwan Khokkar, Mahender

Ahmedabad, Apr 30: An accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case and senior Gujarat IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian courted controversy yet again when on Tuesday a local news channel caught him on tape moving around without a police escort and spending a night at home, while he was supposed to be in judicial custody. Pandian, a 1996 batch suspended IPS officer, was arrested in 2007 for his

New Delhi, Apr 29: Members in the Lok Sabha on Monday voiced concern over intrusion by Chinese troops in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, with crucial UPA ally Samajwadi Party objecting to the upcoming visit of external affairs minister Salman Khurshid to Beijing. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav took the lead in targeting the government for "doing nothing" and alleged that it was