Amritsar: The funeral of Sarabjit Singh will take place on Friday at his village in Bhikhiwind near Amrtisar. The last rites are likely to begin in the afternoon. Sarabjit's body reached his home at night via a special government plane after another post-mortem was conducted at an Amritsar hospital.
Sarabjit's body was airlifted to his village and sent to Government Hospital at Patti where a team of six doctors of government-run Amritsar Medical college conducted the second post-mortem. The second post-mortem was conducted as per his family's wish to "know the cause behind his death".
Doctors say they will file the report soon. "We have noted the injuries. There are injuries on the head and other body parts. We'll look at the report of the post-mortem conducted in Pakistan," said Dr Gurmatjeet.
However, it is unclear if Pakistan will share its own autopsy report with India. Questions are still being raised on whether Sarabjit was taken off the ventilator without permission from his family. Doctors in Pakistan claim that he had a heart attack and only then was he taken off the ventilator. ...
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07:54 AM, May 03, 2013
Phagwara: A series of protest demonstrations were held here over the death of Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani hospital, leading to diversion of international buses running between Delhi and Lahore in the neighbouring country. Activists of Shiv Sena, led by its state unit vice-president Inderjit Karwal, took out a protest march from Hanumangarhi temple and converged on National Highway 1 at Sugar Mill crossing. They blocked the traffic briefly in...
08:50 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has denied claims in Pakistani media that the Indian High Commission officials were consulted by Pakistani authorities before Sarabjit Singh was taken off ventilator support resulting in his death late on Wednesday night at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital. Sarabjit's family members also claimed that they came to know of his death from the Pakistani media and nothing was communicated to them officially. Meanwhile, Pakistan...
09:41 AM, May 02, 2013
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08:31 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the UPA government over coalgate saying it will check if guidelines were followed in allocating coal blocks. "The government needs to explain coal allocations," the court said. "Coal allocation is distribution of state property," it added. Turning down the Centre's plea that the court should not go into the issue as it is being looked into by a Parliamentary committee,...
01:48 PM, Sep 14, 2012
With Assam still tense following the communal violence in some of its districts, the Central Government is trying to block offensive content on social media websites, which it claims have been responsible for the hate campaign against Northeast Indians. The government has given Twitter and other social media websites a deadline of 12 hours to remove the objectionable content or face shutdown in India. The decision was taken after Twitter...
02:26 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Mumbai: Thirty years since the first reported case of a person infected with the HIV virus and 25 million deaths later, an AIDS-free generation still seems an audacious goal. According to the UNAIDS, globally close to 3 million people get infected with HIV every year. So with the common goal of marking the "beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic", close to 25,000 international HIV scientists will meet in...
01:30 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: In what could be a major indication of Rahul Gandhi joining the UPA government, the Congress General Secretary on Thursday said he would play a "more active role in party and government". "I will play more active role in party and the government. The final decision is upto the Congress leadership," he said on Thursday after several leaders including Congress President Sonia Gandhi had put the onus on...
11:54 AM, Jul 19, 2012
French Embassy official Pascal Mazurier's Indian wife accused him of raping their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter in Bangalore last week. ...
09:06 AM, Jun 19, 2012
A tiger death raises a million eye brows. An investigation is immediately sought. Conservationists make a hue and cry demanding the arrest of the poacher. But they don't show same intensity of concern when an elephant dies due to poaching or electrocution. Invariably the blame is thrust on elephants for crop-raiding. Farmers who illegally draw power from electric lines and trigger-happy poachers get away scot free. Like the critically endangered...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to his visa extension, controversial US historian Peter Heehs has thanked the Home Ministry saying the Indian government values freedom of expression. In a statement, Heehs said, "I'm grateful to the Home Ministry for reviewing my case, and for arriving at a decision that shows that the government values freedom of expression." In a reprieve for Heehs who faced deportation from India, the Union Home Ministry on...
09:43 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Puneet Bali, the counsel for General VK Singh in the age row, said on Friday that the matter had been resolved very gracefully. "It is a victory for everybody. This matter has been resolved very gracefully." He said that it was very hurting to see "certain sections" reporting that the General perhaps wanted to cling on to the post. ...
03:45 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it cannot cancel the 2G liscences on the basis of CAG report. The apex court adjourned the hearing on the matter till March 1 after giving the remark that any decision taken by the government on the issue will be subject to the outcome of the petitions pending before it. The remark has been given by a Supreme Court bench, comprised of...
11:46 AM, Feb 01, 2011
New Delhi: Ram Vilas, 32, a small-time shopkeeper in a village in Bihar, now knows the power of the Right To Information (RTI) Act after he used it successfully to get the provident fund money of his ailing retired father, an ex-civic employee. A school drop out, Ram Vilas sought help from one of his former classmates, who is working in a bank, to get an RTI application filed. The...
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08:39 AM, Jul 21, 2010
Otis wants liquor baron Vijay Mallya to pay him back. ...
01:07 PM, May 15, 2009
Otis turned down request from Indian govt to withdraw Gandhi's items from auction. ...
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The auction in New York is slated for March 5. ...
02:45 PM, Mar 04, 2009
The Union Cabinet's decision will allow Centre to revise medical bonus payable under the Maternity Benefit Act. ...
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