"I owe it to Veer Savarkar, to his spirit, to his legacy and to his untold story so that I tell it well and it reaches people, and people absorb it and feel what he went through and all the sacrifices that he made, which have been brushed under the carpet."
Upadhaya fell eight runs short of his maiden first class century while Sarabjit is unbeaten on 78 on the opening day of their final Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' match.
The body of Indian prisoner Kirpal Singh, who died under mysterious circumstances in a Pakistani jail, arrived in India on Tuesday.
The mortal remains of Lakhbir Singh were cremated at his native village in Punjab's Tarn Taran amid tight security in the presence of his family members. No Sikh priest was present to perform Ardas (Sikh religious prayer) and no one from his village, Cheema Kalan, attended the last rites.
Prisoners facing death row in Pakistan, including Indian national Sarabjit Singh, are likely to get a reprieve with the government "actively considering" a proposal to convert capital punishment into life imprisonment. "A summary prepared by the interior ministry is at an advanced stage and a final decision is expected within a few days," a source was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
A stubborn 82 by Jasvir Singh and his unbeaten 93-run partnership for the fifth wicket with skipper Sarabjit Singh (23) helped Services crawl to 203 for 4 against Andhra.
The heart and stomach were missing as they had been taken out during the first autopsy conducted at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore.
The Union home ministry has asked all the states to step up security of nearly 220 Pakistani prisoners lodged in their respective jails in the wake of the murderous attack on Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore prison.
India on Thursday demanded justice from Pakistan after the death of Sarabjit Singh in a 'barbaric' attack in a Lahore jail with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying it was "'particularly regrettable" it did not heed pleas to take a humanitarian view of the prisoner's case.
A Pakistani medical board completed the autopsy on the body of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who died early on Thursday, after being comatose for almost a week following an attack by other prisoners at a Lahore jail.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday demanded that India call back its high commissioner in Pakistan and scale down diplomatic relations with Islamabad in the wake of the death of Sarabjit Singh after a brutal attack.
In the aftermath of the death of Sarabjit Singh, India is seriously concerned about the safety of other 270 odd nationals lodged in Pakistani prisons and wants that country to ensure adequate safety for them as per international norms.
Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, son of Beant Singh, one of the two assassins of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, joined the Bahujan Samaj Party in Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab on Sunday.
Dalbir Singh, sister of Sarabjit Singh who has been condemned to death in Pakistan, announced on Thursday that she has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party to express her gratitude to the party for highlighting her brother's plight.
Kaur urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the matter with Musharraf as promised by him when she along with Sarabjit's two daughters met him on March 24 during his visit to Amritsar.
Sarabjit was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1990 that killed about 14 people. Pakistan's Supreme Court had rejected his mercy petition in 2006. Sarabjit's family claims he is innocent, saying he had strayed into Pakistani territory by mistake.
Responding to questions on Musharraf's remarks on Sarabjeet that he was involved in terrorist acts, he said "we have told them (Pakistan) that he is an Indian national and sentiments are attached to the issue."
Asked whether Musharraf was apprised of the matter, Kasuri said he would personally bring the case to the notice of the Pakistan president.
An India-Pakistan judicial panel, that visited Lahore's Jinnah Hospital where Sarabjit Singh was under treatment, has recommended that jail authorities "ensure adequate security for all Indian prisoners" to avoid such incidents in future.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded two Congress turncoats and its former Union minister Vijay Sampla for next month's Punjab assembly polls as it released its second list of 27 candidates on Thursday.
Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said government facilitates freedom fighters and gives pension but revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh are not even give the status of a martyr leave aside any financial support to their families.
Sarabjit's lawyer Rana Abdul Hamid also has no such confirmation in Pakistan with regard to his client's conversion.
Just keeping our fingers crossed, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said about Sarbajit Singh, who is battling for life in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault last week in a Pakistani jail.
Grewal, who was elected to the mayoral office in May 2005, said he will appeal UK PM Tony Blair to intervene.
Parliamentarians of Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee to express concern over Chinese incursions into Ladakh and the manner in which the case of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was handled by the government.
It was not immediately known whether the attack on the 52-year-old convict with a sharp weapon was a backlash against the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a hospital in Pakistan on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by fellow inmates in a high-security Lahore jail
The government was making all out efforts to get the Indian national freed from a Pakistani jail.
While the workers have decided to retain the previously proposed name Maruti Suzuki Employees' Union, a new crop of leaders have emerged to take forward their cause.
Sarabjit Singh, whose family claims had ventured into Pakistan border and was captured, has been languishing in Pakistan's prisons for 15 years.
Cops name them as main accused in violence at Manesar plant, in which a senior official was killed.
The Congress is desperate for good news from Karnataka. Why is Modi campaign in Karnataka followed closely? Why is S M Krishna sulking? All this and more in this week's Dilli Gupshup.
Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisti reached New Delhi on Monday night from Ajmer as he set out on his journey back home for a temporary period, after spending almost two decades in India.
Defending champions Punjab were shocked by Manipur 2-1 in the quarter-final Group A league opener in the 63rd National Football championship, for the Santosh Trophy, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in Chennai on Tuesday.
Burney, who was the human rights minister in the interim government in Pakistan, was deported back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport by an Emirates Airways flight at Airways flight at around 2030 hours because of a "look-out" notice against him, they said. It was, however, not immediately clear who had issued the notice against him and in what connection.
Three young Indians swept the Time Magazine's first Asian essay competition on the challenges that the continent face in the 21st century.
During his visit to India, Burney is expected to meet senior officials, including the ministers for home affairs and external affairs, and human rights activists in an effort to secure the release of all Pakistani prisoners who had completed their sentences.
In a move that could benefit Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday asked President Pervez Musharraf to convert all death sentences in the country to life imprisonment. "This is an issue on which we have spoken several times during our meetings and an issue on which I have already sent several appeals," the former human rights minister said.
Ethnic slurs were also spray-painted on the property, the Sikh Council on Religion and Education said.
Parliament on Monday voiced concern over the death sentence awarded to an Indian national in Pakistan for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts there, saying it was a case of mistaken identity.
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