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TN Class XII board exams commence with over 5,000 PwD and 90 prisoners among students

The valuation of the examination papers is to begin on April 10 with the government deploying 48,000 postgraduate teachers

Published on 13th March 2023
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Ex-prof GN Saibaba heads back to jail. Here's what activists have to say about political prisoners   

GN Saibaba, who was recently acquitted in the March 2017 case for alleged Maoist links, had his acquittal suspended recently by the SC 

 

Published on 18th October 2022
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Prisons department in Karnataka to educate illiterate prisoners across the state. Here's how 

The pilot project will be launched on a grand scale at Bengaluru Central Jail on November 1. The same will be extended to all jails across the state

Published on 28th October 2021
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Study says 62.2% death row prisoners diagnosed with at least one mental illness 

The study was conducted on 88 death row prisoners across Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, and Madhya Pradesh

Published on 22nd October 2021
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Student support has been outstanding: DU Prof PK Vijayan who was summoned by the NIA

The professor is a English teacher at the University’s Hindu College and was summoned for an investigation by the NIA on August 14

Published on 17th August 2020
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Tamil Nadu prisoners make masks for police

According to officials, the tailoring units in the state jails make about 23,000 pieces per day. Each mask costs about Rs 10

Published on 4th April 2020
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How Sunil Robert Vuppula is transforming the lives of everyone from students to prisoners

Self-deprecating humour is this motivational speaker's favourite ploy. The audience loves a speaker who is unafraid of poking fun at himself or making himself the butt of jokes, he says 

Published on 7th November 2019
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600 prisoners across India convicted of offences other than murder, rape, corruption to be released on Gandhi Jayanti

However, around 80 convicts selected from jails in Maharashtra and Haryana, will have to wait for their release

Published on 2nd October 2019
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These Thrissur prisoners are cooking up a storm in the kitchen and Swiggy will deliver it to you

The prison's food unit Freedom Food Unit recently tied up with the online delivery platform Swiggy. The exclusive combo is as cheap as Rs 127

Published on 11th July 2019
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Poetry comes from the soul and it can be written in your mother tongue: Sitakant Mahapatra on his love for Odia and literature

Mahapatra was born on September 17, in the year 1937. He recently won the Sivananda Eminent Citizen Award 2018 for which he travelled to Hyderabad

Published on 4th January 2019
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From jailbirds to literateurs: These Karnataka prisoners are set to attend lit fest soon

There are 560 inmates residing in Dharwad jail and many of them are involved in agricultural fields, cattle sheds and craft making works

Published on 28th December 2018
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Madras HC takes initiative for the rehabilitation of prisoners' kids, forms expert committees 

The bench headed by Justice Vimala said that the Court is mindful of the children below 18 years who are vulnerable to all kinds of crimes and social evils

Published on 21st March 2018
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The Counsellor of Convicts: Here's why Rohit Kumar kept going back to Tihar Jail

Rohit Kumar's book Tales from the Jail is possibly one of the few accounts of what life is like for a man who keeps going back to prison without being indicted, arrested or locked away

Published on 19th April 2017

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