During a war, there are just four possibilities a soldier faces. One: Victorious and safe. Two: Wounded. Three: Killed in action. Four: Prisoner of War. It was my fate to face the fourth, says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) on the year spent as a prisoner of war in Pakistan during the 1971 War.
The 49-year-old jeweller, fighting extradition in the estimated $2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, will appear via videolink from Wandsworth Prison in south-west London for the latest hearing in the case, during which District Judge Samuel Goozee will hear his defence team's arguments against the admissibility of certain evidence provided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) in order to establish a prima facie case against the accused.
'What can I do for my India except make films that showcase it's greatness to the world, which touch on national issues and arouse the feeling of patriotism?'
Intelligence sleuths had seized the cellphone (9906872239) from prisoner Gurmail Singh in Barrack number two in Block number 14 of high security Kotbalwal jail.
Two death row prisoners have been indicted in Pakistan for the murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh at a jail in Lahore. An additional district and sessions judge held trial at the Central Jail in Kot Lakhpat on Friday and formally charged the two inmates -- Amer Sarfraz alias Tamba and Muddassar Bashir.
'In Pakistan there has been no problem about the installation of the statues of these men, unlike the Jinnah portrait or other controversies that seem to be present in India these days quite regularly,' says Aakar Patel.
Royal Challengers head coach Simon Katich was all praise for the South African after he single-handedly won the IPL game against Rajasthan Royals for them, in Dubai on Saturday.
The Union health ministry said West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh reported a casualty each on Monday, taking the total number of deaths to nine in the country due to COVID-19.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi is now gone. But the mass appeal of fundamentalism among Pakistan's burgeoning, young, illiterate, unemployed and angry population isn't, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The body of Sarabjit Singh, who died after a brutal attack by inmates in a Pakistani jail, was on Thursday night handed over to his family after the post-mortem.
'After a ten year search, the so-called 'mastermind' of the Mumbai Terror attacks has been arrested in Pakistan. Great pressure has been exerted over the last two years to find him!' said Trump who is scheduled to meet Khan at his Oval Office on Monday, July 22.
The third day of the five-day hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, presided over by Justice Samuel Goozee, was devoted to the defence laying out further arguments against a prima facie case of fraud and money laundering against Modi.
Babbar Khalsa International's terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara on Thursday pleaded guilty in a Delhi court, along with four others, of their alleged roles in the 2005 twin blasts at Satyam and Liberty cinema halls in Delhi. With Hawara -- the assassin of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh -- and his four accomplices admitting their guilt, Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Siddhartha sentenced them to jail terms already undergone by them.
After Kashmir Singh, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney has found another Indian on death row, Karpal Singh, languishing in a jail in Punjab province since 1992.
A Mumbai-based software engineer, who claimed to have inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan in 2007 via the Samjhauta Express and was jailed there for five years, was repatriated on Thursday. Bhavesh Parmar, 33, a resident of Ville Parle area in Mumbai, crossed over to India from Attari in Punjab. He was received by his mother Hansa Kanti and Member of Legislative Assembly Krishna Hegde, who helped the family take up the matter.
An investigation has been ordered into the death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh, after he was allegedly assaulted by staff at a Pakistani jail, Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir said on Thursday, maintaining that there should be 'no anxiety' over the issue.
Jagtar Singh Hawara, a Babbar Khalsa International terrorist and his associates Jagtar Singh Tara and Paramjit Singh, all three accused in the murder for former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, escaped after digging a tunnel in the jail.
After being on the death row for 20 years over bombing charges, Indian national Sarabjit Singh is being released with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday commuting his death sentence.
Given how everything has played out, Mehul Choksi, now 62, achieved all that he wanted but for all the wrong reasons, says Pavan Lall.
Jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz with 64 and former president Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party with 43 seats are placed at number two and three respectively, the Election Commission of Pakistan said.
Over 25,000 protesters had entered and besieged Islamabad's high-security zone on Sunday, damaging public buildings and breaking barriers that had been erected.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda onh Friday equated Khap Panchayats with organisations like Non-Governmental Organisations, saying that they are part of state's culture.
Union minister Prakash Javadekar accused the Congress of ignoring farmers' interests and keeping them poor to ensure cheap grain prices, and asserted that the Modi government empowered them by implementing the Swaminathan commission report to give them remunerative price through MSP.
Unfazed by the protests against the Act, Shah challenged protesters to oppose the legislation as much as they can. He also asked students who are opposing the legislation to read it properly and understand its meaning.
Bikram Singh Majithia claimed he was grateful that truth had won and Kejriwal had realised his mistake.
Notwithstanding a clean chit from the police, a Pakistani court dismissed the bail plea of a young die-hard fan of India's ace batsman Virat Kohli who was arrested on treason charges for hoisting the Indian flag atop his home.
Justice S Muralidhar on Thursday apprised judges and lawyers of the Delhi high court about the sequence of communication on his transfer to Punjab and Haryana high court, saying that he was informed about it on February 17 and had no problem with it.
Pakistan on Wednesday hanged two more death-row prisoners, taking the total number of executions to 70 since the country reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December after the Taliban school massacre.
Jhanvi Behal felt that the speech Kanhaiya gave after his release from the jail, targeting PM Modi and his government, was completely wrong and untrue.
A Babbar Khalsa terrorist, who was undergoing sentence in an attempt to murder case, escaped from police custody in Punjab while being taken to a court from Delhi's Tihar jail, police sources said on Tuesday.
As the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Punjab government pitched for a pardon for him, Balwant Singh Rajoana, who has been convicted for the assassination of former chief minister Beant Singh, today described Akali leaders as "cheaters" and asked them not to seek clemency for him.
Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh, who has served a life term in Pakistan following his arrest on charges of spying in the 1980s, was on Thursday freed from the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore and sent to the Wagah border crossing to be repatriated
As the country readies to go to polls on July 25, one can't deny the role of the military, but there are other factors too.
The bureaucracy in Haryana blamed the government for inexperience and criminal negligence.
Driven by hardship, adventurous souls mortgage their homesteads in Punjab or Haryana, pawn the family jewellery and borrow heavily to satisfy the greed of the criminal traffickers who organise their trips, points out Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
This is the fifth mercy petition from Sarabjit, who was sentenced to death for alleged involvement in a string of bombings in Punjab in 1990 that killed 14 people.
Justice Mukul Mudgal, who was appointed by the sports ministry to probe into the athletics doping fiasco, today said that jailed Commonwealth Games organising committee officials Suresh Kalmadi and Lalit Bhanot may be questioned in connection with the scandal.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday handed down death sentence to the police guard who assassinated Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for calling for changes in the country's controversial blasphemy law.
Salve was the lead counsel for India in the Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice which had last year ruled that Pakistan must review the death sentence awarded to the retired naval officer after a closed trial.
Talking exclusively to rediff.com, Rajoana's sister Kamaljit Kaur said: "He stands for Khalistan and we support him. We will stand with him through thick and thin. My brother is in high spirits and he is ready for any eventuality."
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