Year Of Mercy

Can India afford to be at the mercy of US and Russia to defend itself from hostile neighbours?

A year after landing in jail without charge, her mercy plea unanswered by Saudi rulers and in fear of a coronavirus outbreak behind bars, a prominent princess did the unthinkable -- and went public.

The Supreme Court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of a man who murdered his wife and five children after rapping the Madhya Pradesh government for it "unexplained" delay of four years in forwarding his mercy petition to the centre, leading to almost five years in deciding it.

A Dalit man was beaten up in Meerut and then forced to make derogatory statements about his community and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was also the father of the Indian constitution. His three assailants who are on the run, also took a video of the assault and circulated it in the area. The incident is the second of its kind this year - in Janu...

The mother of the 23-year-old medical student who was gangraped and tortured in a moving bus in Delhi nearly six years ago, welcomed the Supreme Court order that confirmed that the five men responsible will hang.

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, self-styled spiritual guru to millions, broke down in court today and pleaded for mercy as he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two women. But the CBI is pushing for life imprisonment citing precedents - and the two women he has been found guilty of raping in 2002 at his ashram say he deserves that. The CBI tod...

Self-styled "godman" Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was a far cry today from the villain-punching, alien-fighting hero he played on screen, pleading "Mujhe maaf karo" (have mercy on me) and breaking down as he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two women followers over a decade ago.

Indian diplomatic missions have filed 182 mercy petitions in 12 countries, including the UAE and Oman, on behalf of Indians in foreign jails in the last three years, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Pope Francis will bring to a close his "Year of Mercy" on Sunday, shutting the Holy Door at Saint Peter's after a packed 12 months that has seen him raise Mother Teresa to sainthood and reinstate Syrian refugees.

A high-level meeting of experts of the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) in Thrissur on Sunday decided that 90 head of cattle which tested positive for deadly brucellosis disease two years ago will be put to death in two weeks' time.

Pope Francis's Jubilee Year of Mercy has got off to a sluggish start, to the disappointment of Rome's hoteliers, restaurateurs and souvenir sellers.

Pope Francis is urging governments to consider granting a Holy Year amnesty to prisoners, find alternatives to incarceration and at the very least abolish the death penalty, in his annual peace message released today.

As a student graduating from computer college two years ago, Mohammed Qudih was dreading the "painful" unemployment in the Gaza Strip a war-battered territory where nearly half the population is without work.

In a rare case, a 33-year-old Himalayan bear that had suffered paralysis over two years ago, was on Saturday given 'mercy death' at the Kamla Nehru zoo, authorities said.

Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday rejected a mercy petition of four terrorists who had been given death sentences for the last year's attack on an army school that left nearly 150 people dead, officials said.

Can India afford to be at the mercy of US and Russia to defend itself from hostile neighbours?

A year after landing in jail without charge, her mercy plea unanswered by Saudi rulers and in fear of a coronavirus outbreak behind bars, a prominent princess did the unthinkable -- and went public.

The Supreme Court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of a man who murdered his wife and five children after rapping the Madhya Pradesh government for it "unexplained" delay of four years in forwarding his mercy petition to the centre, leading to almost five years in deciding it.

A Dalit man was beaten up in Meerut and then forced to make derogatory statements about his community and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was also the father of the Indian constitution. His three assailants who are on the run, also took a video of the assault and circulated it in the area. The incident is the second of its kind this year - in Janu...

The mother of the 23-year-old medical student who was gangraped and tortured in a moving bus in Delhi nearly six years ago, welcomed the Supreme Court order that confirmed that the five men responsible will hang.

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, self-styled spiritual guru to millions, broke down in court today and pleaded for mercy as he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two women. But the CBI is pushing for life imprisonment citing precedents - and the two women he has been found guilty of raping in 2002 at his ashram say he deserves that. The CBI tod...

Self-styled "godman" Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was a far cry today from the villain-punching, alien-fighting hero he played on screen, pleading "Mujhe maaf karo" (have mercy on me) and breaking down as he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two women followers over a decade ago.

Indian diplomatic missions have filed 182 mercy petitions in 12 countries, including the UAE and Oman, on behalf of Indians in foreign jails in the last three years, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Pope Francis will bring to a close his "Year of Mercy" on Sunday, shutting the Holy Door at Saint Peter's after a packed 12 months that has seen him raise Mother Teresa to sainthood and reinstate Syrian refugees.

A high-level meeting of experts of the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) in Thrissur on Sunday decided that 90 head of cattle which tested positive for deadly brucellosis disease two years ago will be put to death in two weeks' time.

Pope Francis's Jubilee Year of Mercy has got off to a sluggish start, to the disappointment of Rome's hoteliers, restaurateurs and souvenir sellers.

Pope Francis is urging governments to consider granting a Holy Year amnesty to prisoners, find alternatives to incarceration and at the very least abolish the death penalty, in his annual peace message released today.

As a student graduating from computer college two years ago, Mohammed Qudih was dreading the "painful" unemployment in the Gaza Strip a war-battered territory where nearly half the population is without work.

In a rare case, a 33-year-old Himalayan bear that had suffered paralysis over two years ago, was on Saturday given 'mercy death' at the Kamla Nehru zoo, authorities said.

Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday rejected a mercy petition of four terrorists who had been given death sentences for the last year's attack on an army school that left nearly 150 people dead, officials said.