A convicted murderer is set to be executed by firing squad in the United States state of South Carolina on Friday, marking the state's first use of the method and the first such execution in the US in nearly 15 years.
He spent his last days at the campus of Avani, an organisation he was associated with for three decades. Avani works towards the empowerment of the marginalized children, child labourers, migrant brickyard and sugar cane workers and the women in the labour force.
"A recent Columbia University study that supports that death is prevented by earlier lockdowns bears the fact that Narendra Modi's government has done an excellent job in clamping lockdown," Tennessee-based Dr Indranill Basu Ray said in a statement.
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Amul Thapar, 47, had become in 2007 the first South Asian Article III judge when he was appointed as a US District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Republican Donald Trump has been elected as 45th President of the United States after winning 276 electoral votes.
A life-threatening blizzard which is expected to pound a record 30 inches of snow has hit most part of the US' east coast.
The billionaire businessman beat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.
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