An angry Omar Abdullah said that the Centre will have to prove to 'Kashmiris and the wider world' that this wasn't a selective execution. ...
11:17 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Afzal Guru's belongings like books, clothes, spectacles and a radio are likely to be returned to his family by authorities of Tihar Jail where the Parliament attack convict was hanged in an operation shrouded in secrecy. ...
09:39 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Two youths were critically injured allegedly in security forces action against persons staging a demonstration in north Kashmir's Baramulla district against hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru. ...
08:54 PM, Feb 10, 2013
A day after the Parliament attack convict was hanged inside Tihar Jail in the national capital, more questions are being raised on whether the family of Afzal Guru was deliberately kept in the dark about the government's decision. While the government has claimed to have sent the information about the execution to Guru's family in advance, his family and relatives have maintained that they got to know about the hanging...
07:59 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju has hit out at the Union Home Ministry over detention of Kashmiri journalist Iftikhar Gilani. In a hard-hitting letter to Union Home Secretary RK Singh, Katju condemned Iftikhar's detention and said that policemen who were involved in the "illegal act" should be suspended and prosecuted. ...
07:30 PM, Feb 10, 2013
An angry Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday said that the UPA government will have to prove to Kashmiris and to the wider world that the execution of Afzal Guru was not a "selective one". Speaking to CNN-IBN a day after the Parliament attack convict was hanged inside Tihar jail almost 11 years after the dastardly attack, Omar said, "I had a premonition that Afzal Guru's execution...
03:41 PM, Feb 10, 2013
An FIR has been registered against 13 persons for allegedly burning effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi protesting the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 10, 2013
More than 24 hours after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged inside Tihar jail, the prison officials have reportedly said that they are yet to receive the acknowledgment receipt of the speed post, through which the government claimed to have sent information to Afzal's family about his execution. This has a raised questions on the credibility of the government's claims that the family had been informed ahead of the...
01:24 PM, Feb 10, 2013
A day after he was detained following the hanging of Afzal Guru, Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani on Sunday said his detention by police happened because he had spoken to the media. "They did not want me to speak to the press, so they detained me," Geelani told IANS. ...
12:44 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Global human rights group Amnesty International on Saturday said the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru, convicted of conspiracy to attack Indian Parliament, indicates a "disturbing and regressive trend" towards executions shrouded in secrecy. ...
07:44 AM, Feb 10, 2013
A day after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged, an uneasy calm prevails over Kashmir. Afzal Guru was a resident of Sopore. On Saturday, 30 people, including security personnel, were injured when protests erupted in the district following news of his hanging. There is a curfew in Kashmir and will be in place till February 11, the death anniversary of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Maqbool Bhatt....
07:32 AM, Feb 10, 2013
Mohammad Afzal Guru's execution has revived the debate over the delay in several other similar cases. While, the Congress has hit out at the Opposition for remaining silent over Khalistan terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana's death penalty, the BJP has raised questions on Rajiv Gandhi's assassins. ...
07:27 AM, Feb 10, 2013
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday stepped up attack on BJP following the execution of Afzal Guru, saying the opposition party had compromised with terrorists in the Kandahar plane hijack in 1999. He also asked political parties not to politicise the issue of delay in the execution saying the government took the decision after going through all standard procedures. ...
05:31 AM, Feb 10, 2013
The BJP on Saturday asked why had the UPA government "inordinately delayed" the execution of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, and said that the government had been compelled to act by public opinion. ...
03:21 AM, Feb 10, 2013
In a blow to the campaign of opposition Congress for the February 14 assembly polls in Tripura, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi on Saturday cancelled their trips to the Left-ruled state, a party leader said. ...
01:54 AM, Feb 10, 2013
The families of victims of the 2001 parliament attack will write to President Pranab Mukherjee to get back the bravery awards returned by them earlier, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, former Indian Youth Congress chief, said on Saturday. ...
01:39 AM, Feb 10, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 am on Saturday in front of eight people in the Tihar Jail in a procedure that took eight minutes, prison sources said on Saturday. ...
12:58 AM, Feb 10, 2013
As 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar Jail in the national capital on Saturday morning, curfew was clamped across districts in Kashmir Valley. ...
11:57 PM, Feb 09, 2013
More than 11 years after the attack on Parliament, the key conspirator in the case, Afzal Guru, was hanged to death at 8 am on Saturday, six days after his mercy plea was rejected on February 3 by President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
11:51 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh has said that the body of Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack, was hanged and also buried inside Tihar Jail due to security reasons. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 09, 2013
