'Pass resolution to commute Guru's death sentence'

Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has demanded the resignations of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his father, union minister Dr Farooq Abdullah. Mirwaiz Umar......

'Life in PoK is worse than death'

Despite assurances that it will not allow terrorists to use its territory, Pakistan continues to maintain militant camps in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan, said Shazia Ghulam Din,......

Prominent cases of hanging

When Dhananjoy Chatterjee is hanged to death in the wee hours of August 14, 2004, he will become the 55th convict to undergo the death sentence in Independent India.Though there is a provision in......

Timing of execution clearly political

Sheela Bhatt explains the government's political logic behind Afzal Guru's execution. What can be called the 'Narendra Modi impact' is visible in the Union government's decision to hang Afzal Guru......