New Delhi: Parliament House complex will soon be guarded by a special commando-trained squad of CRPF which will be armed with modern weapons and communication gadgets. The elite squad will be called the Parliament Duty Group (PDG) and this is the first time that the historic building will have a system of "uniform armed protection" for itself, a CRPF officer said. The Union Home Ministry had recently approved the creation...
04:39 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a significant move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to furnish details of 18 mercy pleas, including that of Parliament attack death convict Afzal Guru, pending disposal before the President. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya also asked eminent jurist Ram Jethmalani to file written submissions on "whether the President should objectively apply mind while deciding mercy petitions". The apex court felt...
05:35 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Jammu: Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru should "pay the price" for attacking India, Union New and Renewable Energy Minister and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah said on Saturday. "Anyone who attacks India should pay the price for it," Farooq Abdullah, president of the state's ruling National Conference (NC), said in reply to a reporter's question on Afzal Guru. However, even as the elder Abdullah indicated strong action...
04:06 AM, Feb 26, 2012
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11:39 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Plea of the wife of an ANI cameraperson, who died in Parliament attack, has caught attention of Derek O' Brien. ...
10:16 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek o'Brien made an emotional appeal in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday to help ANI cameraperson Vikram Bisht's widow. Bisht was killed during the terrorist attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001. "Vikram Bisht, cameraperson of ANI, had died during the attack. His widow and family have been running at all places. In fact, yesterday when nine pictures were put up, his picture wasn't ...
02:36 PM, Dec 14, 2011
The families of martyrs have submitted a memorandum to the President asking her to expedite execution of Afzal Guru. ...
11:56 PM, Dec 13, 2011
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11:55 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Delay in the hanging of Afzal Guru upsets families of the nine security staff, who lost their lives in the attack. ...
08:22 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Admitting that the justice delivery system in the country was slow, Government on Tuesday said efforts were on to ensure matters are decided in courts within three to five years. "I cannot comment on legal system procedures and rule of law," Law Minister Salman Khurshid said when asked about the delay in Afzal Guru case. However, he said, "we are not entirely happy with the pace at which...
04:55 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: The mercy plea of decade-old Parliament attack case convict Mohd Afzal Guru was among 14 other such applications pending decision by President Pratibha Patil. Replying to an RTI query, the President Secretariat declined to disclose copies of correspondence and file notings related to Guru's clemency petition, saying they were "records of deliberations of the Council of Ministers, secretaries and other officers". The President's office had received a total...
02:26 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Former Delhi police commissioner Ajay Raj Sharma says MPs were lucky that the attack was foiled. ...
02:19 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Members of Parliament and security personnel held a tribute for the nine martyrs who lost their lives in the 2001 Parliament attack. However, the families of most of the martyrs skipped the event upset over the delay in the hanging of convict Afzal Guru. Five terrorists entered the premises of Parliament on December 13, 2001 and began indiscriminate firing. Many MPs were inside Parliament at that time....
11:17 AM, Dec 13, 2011
A video journalist, who was present at the location during the Parliament attack, relives the horror. ...
10:12 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Member of Parliaments talk about their experiences of Parliament attack that happened 10 years ago. ...
08:31 AM, Dec 13, 2011
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