Jeddah: Yemen gave a qualified welcome on Sunday to President Barack Obama's promise to lift a ban on repatriating Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, saying he now had to back up his words with actions.
Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi said his government was building a "rehabilitation center" to house Yemenis who have been detained at the US camp in Cuba for more than a decade.
Obama promised May 2013 to end the ban on transferring Yemenis back home, one of the main obstacles to clearing out the detention camp, and altered the rules for US drone strikes.
Qirbi said that Obama's announcement "brings hope to families of the detainees in Guantanamo and to the detainees themselves who for 12 years have been in prison and have lost hope of getting out of Guantanamo"....
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07:41 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Jammu: A team of Jammu and Kashmir ministers headed by Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand on Thursday visited the quake affected areas of Jammu region and took stock of relief and rehabilitation work. Chand, along with Minister for Rural Development, Ali Mohammad Sagar, and Minister of State for Health, Shabir Ahmad Khan, interacted with people and inquired about their problems and relief measures at Bhalessa, Gandoh, Changa, Kishtwar, Thatri and...
12:37 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government on a plea challenging the surrender and rehabilitation policy for terrorists in the state. A bench headed by Justice RM Lodha sought response from the two governments on a petition filed by J&K Panthers Party which alleged persons with Pakistani passports are being illegally allowed to enter Indian territory from Nepal by using...
06:20 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: At least 30 inmates of the Tihar Jail here were selected by 15 companies in the fourth campus placement drive conducted by jail authorities on Tuesday. The inmates were selected after they were interviewed by companies at Tihar's Jail No 3. "All the 30 inmates with good character, who would be released in the next six months, were selected by 15 companies after they fulfilled certain criteria laid...
05:44 AM, Apr 10, 2013
The death toll in a communal riot in Myanmar has risen to 40, according to an official media report Tuesday. The toll rose from 32 as eight more bodies were found when troops cleared the wreckage in the wake of the riot which lasted three days in Meikhtila from March 20, leaving 9,600 people homeless. ...
03:40 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The death toll in a communal riot in Meikthila in northern Myanmar has risen to 32, state-run media reported. According to Xinhua, the state radio and TV said in a broadcast that many bodies were found while clearing the debris. ...
05:32 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Prisoners in Ananthapur in Andhra Pradesh are getting a second chance in life. Through a unique rehabilitation program started by the pharmaceutical company Himalaya, the inmates are now turning to herb farming. ...
10:20 AM, Feb 19, 2013
The Supreme Court came down heavily on the Centre and state governments on Wednesday on the menace of acid attacks and the plight of the victims of such dastardly crime. The court expressed dissatisfaction with the steps taken by the Centre and state governments in dealing with acid attacks. ...
11:48 AM, Feb 06, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala has demanded that the state government should come up with a special rehabilitation package for the victims of the Kannur tanker lorry mishap. In a letter to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy,he urged that those who lost their dear ones and those suffering from severe burns should be provided all support from the part of the State Government. It is the worst tanker lorry mishap in...
03:09 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Guwahati: With no fresh incidents reported from anywhere in Assam over the past few days, the state government has started the process for rehabilitation of the displaced people in the three violence-hit districts, officials said on Sunday. Clashes between the Bodos and Bengali speaking Muslim settlers that broke out in Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts since July 19 have so far killed 95 people and displaced over four lakhs. Relief...
02:09 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is to send a seven-member team to the violence affected districts of Assam on Tuesday. The team will be in the region for three days to assist the state government in its rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Nearly 76 people were killed and over five lakh rendered homeless in the week-long violence between Bodo tribal groups and Muslims in the lower regions of Assam, including Kokrajhar, Chirang...
08:39 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: A central team of officials will pay a three-day visit to Assam from on Tuesday to assist the state administration in the rehabilitation of over 2 lakh people living in relief camps after recent ethnic violence, it was announced on Monday. The team of senior central govenment officials will also assess further requirements for the rehabilitation of those living in the relief camps, said a home ministry statement....
01:20 AM, Aug 21, 2012
Indore: Blaming the Centre for the violence in Assam and the subsequent exodus of Northeast Indians from various parts of the country to their home states, the BJP on Sunday said the "vote-bank" politics of Congress was "weakening" the country. "Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are crossing over to India in large numbers. At the same time, the people from northeast settled in various parts of the country for employment have to...
09:43 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Guwahati: Two Bodo groups including the National Democratic Front of Bodoland's (NDFB) pro-talk faction on Saturday demanded that the Assam government verify the citizenship status of the Bengali-speaking Muslims, displaced during last month's clashes, before rehabilitating them. The pro-talk faction of the NDFB, also known as NDFB (Progressive) and People's Joint Action Committee for Bodoland Movement - a conglomeration of several Bodo and non-Bodo organisations in the Bodoland Territorial Areas...
09:09 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Jaipur: Murder convict TB Thapa always wanted to be a painter. At the age of 35, he finally realised his dream, albeit at the most unlikeliest of places - the Jaipur Central Jail. "This is like meditation... It takes away from the stress and confinement of being in jail," he says with a glint in his eye. Like Thapa, Madhusudan, another convict, too picked up the brush and palette and...
08:12 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Issidore Philip is a messiah for the destitute children across Andhra Pradesh. For 25 years, this educationist and his team at 'Divya Disha' have been rehabilitating the children of a lesser God from railway stations, bus-stands and roadside to a better life. "Everyone wants a kid, a drug peddler wants a child, our challenge is to constantly reach to the kid first, else we lose him for good," Philip...
10:34 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Patna: Bihar Jail Manual would be amended after 87 years to categorise the inmates as per their offence and educational qualification, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said. The jail manual was last modified in 1925. Young offenders aged between 18 and 21 will be separately housed from notorious criminals so that the former do not mingle with hardened criminals and can be reformed as part of the rehabilitation programmme for prisoners,...
02:15 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Pune: Actor Aamir Khan's TV show 'Satyamev Jayate' has helped a city NGO that works in the field of de-addiction, Muktangan Rehabilitation Centre (MRS), receive Rs 4.37 lakh in donations. The NGO has decided to use the money on street children addicted to various harmful substances. The MRS is an ISO 9001:2000 certified body whose work and activities were highlighted in Khans show in the ninth episode that dealt with...
12:04 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The City Police have started a drive to rehabilitate the beggars in the city. But the question remains: to where? The lack of ample space at the beggar rehabilitation centre in Kothalam Road in Fort poses a big hurdle to the rehabilitation move. At present, there are 45 inmates, including men and women, in the rehabilitation centre, set up under the Sakshathkaram project of the City Corporation. In the...
01:18 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Kabul: Anita lifted the sky-blue burqa from her face, revealing glazed eyes and cracked lips from years of smoking opium, and touched her saggy belly, still round from giving birth to her seventh child a month ago. "I can't give breast milk to my baby," said the 32-year-old Anita, who like other women interviewed for this story, declined to give her full name. "I'm scared he'll get addicted." She was...
10:19 AM, Apr 01, 2012
