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TopicBlood money

Topic: blood money

Why bringing back Nimisha Priya, Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen, is a diplomatic rigmarole

New Delhi: The complexities of Yemen—a fractured nation, in the midst of a civil war for over a decade, with rival regional powers jockeying...

Appeal rejected, Indian nurse on death row in Yemen has 2 options: President’s pardon or ‘blood money’

Yemen SC rejected Nimisha Priya's appeal against death sentence in murder case. Her mother wants to negotiate blood money to ensure her release, but there's a ban on Indians traveling to Yemen.

Pakistani society will keep falling in on itself, acquittal of Qandeel Baloch’s killer shows

Some societies give themselves away: at the heart of the Qandeel outrage wasn’t character; it was class.

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Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.