The family of Sarabjit Singh was Sunday allowed a glimpse of him from a distance at the hospital here, where he is being treated after a brutal assault in jail. Doctors have said the chances of survival of Singh, who remains in coma, are slim.
More than 45 hours after Sarabjit was admitted to Jinnah Hospital with severe head injuries, there has been “no sign” of recovery, sources said. The 49-year-old’s central nervous system has been badly damaged.
Families of Palestinian Salafi Muslims held in Hamas prisons gathered in Gaza City on Sunday, demanding the Hamas government to release their sons, reported Xinhua.
Dozens of women, dressed in black outfits covering their entire bodies, and some children gathered at the intersection of a main street in the city, holding banners calling for the release of their sons, who were held for taking part in firing rockets into Israel.
As Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh battled for his life in a Lahore hospital, the Indian government Sunday said it would do everything it can to let him come home on humanitarian grounds.
“I think at the moment the first priority is to stabilize him. I don’t suppose you could really move him in this stage. But we can certainly do everything we can. We have done it in the past and the matter has been taken up at every level,” Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur told NDTV news channel.
With doctors in a Lahore hospital describing as “slim” the chances of survival of badly beaten up Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, his hapless family Sunday pleaded for help from the Indian government, which said it would do everything it could to bring him home.
Sarabjit’s family arrived in Lahore city of Pakistan from Amritsar Sunday afternoon to be with him. After meeting him at the Jinnah Hospital, the family pleaded that he be allowed to be taken back to India or any other country immediately for treatment.
The national capital Sunday witnessed a rare event as artists and civil society members came together to protest against rising insidents of rapes and to register opposition to death penalty through poetry, discussion and songs.
Those present at the event ‘Violence no more’ included personalities like Shabana Azmi, Usha Uthup, Syeda Hameed and Binayak Sen.
The participants pitched for a case against the death penalty and paid tribute to late Chief Justice J.S. Verma who played a key role in drafting a harsh anti-rape law.
The BJP Sunday said the attack on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail was an act of revenge against the hanging of terror convicts Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru.
A party leader said here the incident showed the union government’s unpreparedness in taking precautionary measures in protecting Sarabjit Singh.
“This is a case of paralysis of the Indian foreign policy,” Ravi Shankar Prasad, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, told reporters.
A 15-year-old boy was detained here Sunday on suspicion for involvement in the raped of a six-year-old girl, police sources said.
The boy, a drug addict, was caught Sunday and suspected of brutalising the minor in Badarpur area in south Delhi, sources said.
The victim, who was raped and injured Friday, is undergoing treatment at All India Institute of Medical ciences.
Investigators said they wanted to record the statement of the girl to confirm the juvenile’s involvement.
The suspect lived in the same slum cluster where the victim reside with her family in Badarpur.
BJP’s star campaigner and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday made a virulent attack on the Congress, especially on its vice president Rahul Gandhi, who he termed “a child born with a golden spoon”, asking people never to vote for the party.
“Even by mistake don’t vote for the Congress as it will ruin Karnataka and the country. Say goodbye to the Congress by voting for our party’s lotus (kamal) symbol and free the country from its clutches,” thundered Modi at a mammoth Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election rally here ahead of the state legislative assembly poll May 5.
A possible gas explosion ripped off the side of a five-story residential building in France’s Champagne country on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring 14 others, officials said.
More than 100 rescue workers, firefighters, sniffer-dog squads and bomb and gas experts were deployed to the gutted building in a subsidised housing complex in the city of Reims, east of Paris, officials said. Heaps of debris spilled out of the building onto a grassy esplanade below.
A man who was allegedly trying to smuggle gold into India from Bangkok was arrested at the Kolkata airport here, police said today.
The incident happened last evening when the middle-aged man who returned from a flight from Bangkok was caught with 1
kg of gold tied onto his body at the airport here, they said.
He was been taken into custody and is being interrogated, police said.
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CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechury said here today that the UPA government should reveal the names of those involved in the coal scam.
“The government should reveal the names of the people involved in the coalgate scam. The resignation of either Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Law minister Ashwani Kumar would not serve any purpose unless names of the people involved in it come out,” Yechury said.
He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function organised by the party’s local unit.
Pakistani Taliban detonated bombs at the campaign offices of two politicians in the country’s northwest on Sunday killing nine people in an escalation of attacks on secular, left-leaning political parties, police said.
In the first attack, on the outskirts of Kohat city, a bomb ripped through the office of Syed Noor Akbar, killing six and injuring 10 people, police official Mujtaba Hussain said.
Investigators are pursuing other “persons of interest” who may be linked to the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, a US lawmaker said today.
There are still persons of interest in the United States that the FBI would like to have conversations with,”
Congressman Mike Rogers, Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC’s “This Week.”
He declined to provide a number.
Authorities have identified two brothers — Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev — as the suspects in the April 15 twin
Thirty-three new drugs were granted approval by the health ministry without clinical trials on Indian patients between January 2008 and October 2010, a parliamentary panel has found.
It a report tabled in parliament last week, the panel headed by parliament member Brajesh Pathak said: “This is yet another instance where the ministry, inspite of appreciating the serious problem the continued marketing of these 33 drugs may pose to Indian patients, has chosen to take no action to resolve it”.
Lok Janashakati Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan has been admitted to a private hospital here after he complained of chest congestion.
Doctors attending Paswan at Fortis Hospital here said that the Rajya Sabha MP was “absolutely fine” and he would be discharged in a day or two.
The 67-year-old leader, who concluded his three-month long Bihar Bachao Yatra on April 14, had “a chest infection after which he took some antibiotic leading to congestion and infection in the upper respiratory track,” doctors said.
The main Opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch an agitation against the government in all state capitals on May 4 and 5, attacking the UPA regime on various issues such as the 2G scam and the coal scam.
“BJP has decided to take the fight against the massive cover up of Congress regime from Parliament to the people of country. On May 4 and 5, we will protest in all state capitals against the massive cover up of the Congress regime,” said party spokesman Prakash Javadekar.
Pakistan has granted second consular access to Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who is at a Lahore hospital in critical condition after being brutally attacked by a group of prisoners in jail on Friday.
It had initially not allowed Indian diplomats to visit Sarabjit, who is in deep coma and on ventilator support at the state-run Jinnah Hospital say that he has shown “no sign” of improvement and his chances of survival are “slim”. The 49-year-old is in deep coma after suffering a severe head injury.
Railways enquiry number 139 recorded the highest ever 29.20 crore calls last year which translates to eight lakh calls a day.
North Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkand contributed about 75 per cent of the total calls/SMS sent to the call centres, while English (16 per cent) remained the second preferred language for the railway commuters for seeking information, said Rail Sampark, the organisation which runs the service.
Bangalore: Addressing the much awaited poll rally here on Sunday, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress party for failing on all fronts and urged the people of Karnataka to vote the BJP back to power in the state.
Lashing out at the Congress Modi said that the country knows too well as to what the grand old part was capable of and so the voters would not make the mistake of handing over the reins of Karnataka to them.
An angry young lady has dealt a heavy blow on the cheek of her lover alleging that he had cheated her in the name of love and marriage.
The woman, Chandrika of Rajahmundry slapped her lover Damodar of West Godavari district in the police station itself. However, Damodar told police that he had settled the issue already. But Chandrika was making false allegation against him with ulterior motives. (NSS)
Former Minister and Cantonment MLA Dr P Shanker Rao has once again raised his voice against the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy alleging that the latter had removed him from the Minister post because of his fight against corruption.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Shanker Rao has said that the Chief Minister also made the police to file false cases against him. He said that the party vote bank in Telangana region would be disturbed with the Chief Minister’s remarks that he will not give a single rupee to the region.
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu, film hero Nandamuri Balakrishna had the darshan of Lord Lakshmi Narasimha Swami at Simhachalam near here today.
They were accompanied by their family members. Temple officials and priests extended a warm welcome to them. They offered special poojas in the Temple. Naidu and others left for Hyderabad later in the afternoon.
It may be recalled that Chandrababu Naidu ended his marathon padayatra here yesterday with a grand meeting. (NSS)
There was unexpected huge response to the Eligibility Test conducted on Sunday for admissions into Ramaiah IIT educational institutions in the State. Apart from all corners of the State, students in large numbers from other States also turned up to write the entrance examination.
The examination was conducted in five centers in the Osmania University and Dilsukhnagar. The organizers claimed that over 8,500 students appeared for the test for a total of 125 seats in IITs.
TDP activists have given rousing welcome to their Chief N Chandrababu Naidu, when he came to the City after seven long months after completing 2800 kilometers long ‘Vstunna Meekosam’ padayatra, at Shamshabad here on Sunday. Chandrababu, after participating in a huge public meeting at Visakhapatnam on Saturday, stayed for the night there only and in the morning he had a darshan of Appanna Swamy and came to Hyderabad in a flight.
MBT Corporator Amjadullah Khan lodged a complaint with Chaderghat Police here on Sunday demanding ban on anti-Islamic Page on Facebook “Hindu Veer the real fighter return”.
Once Again attempts to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere of the city. Amjad Ullah khan demand remove anti Islamic page on Facebook and arrest them.