‘Ready to fill jails’, traders to open shops till 8pm today
Karachi
June 5, 2021
Highlighting the businesses’ deteriorating condition amid the ongoing lockdown restrictions, Karachi’s leading traders’ associations announced on Friday they would open shops and businesses till 8pm today and vowed to resist the Sindh government’s order to seal shops for violating the lockdown and Covid-19 standard operating procedures.
The announcement was made in a meeting of leaders of various traders’ bodies. The traders also announced the formation of a ‘Traders Action Committee’, a joint body of traders’ associations of the city, to make collective efforts against the Sindh government’s restrictions on
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Decongestion of jails: SC asks states, UTs to furnish details of prisoners released amid a pandemic
A vacation bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose also asked the states to furnish information relating to number of deaths in jails due to COVID-19 infection.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday directed the states and Union Territories (UTs) to furnish details of prisoners who have been released on interim bail or parole in pursuance to the last month s order, which was aimed at decongesting jails amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A vacation bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose also asked the states to furnish information relating to number of deaths in jails due to COVID-19 infection.
Stalin urges President to release seven convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
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The Tamil Nadu CM points out that the convicts have been undergoing the agony of imprisonment for about three decades.
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The Tamil Nadu CM points out that the convicts have been undergoing the agony of imprisonment for about three decades.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind requesting him to accept the State Government s recommendation in September 2018 and pass orders to remit the life sentences of all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. He also urged that the convicts S. Nalini, Murugan, Santhan, A.G. Perarivalan, Jayakumar, Robert Payas and P. Ravichandran be released immediately.