Pak death row inmate Sarabjit Singh gets a new lawyer

October 14th, 2009 NORTH CAROLINA - Jailed Ponzi king Bernard Madoff was involved in a prison scuffle with a fellow inmate in North Carolina federal prison following a debate over stock market, and reportedly came out victorious. According to reports, Madoff and the other inmate had a heated debate over the stock market, which turned sour when the former pushed Madoff.

October 2nd, 2009 HAMILTON - A mega function would be held here Saturday by the Indian community in New Zealand to mark the birth anniversary of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. And a New Zealander of British ancestry will be one of the sponsors of the programme.

October 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A Brit Sikh police officer, who was told to remove his turban during training, has won his discrimination case. Police constable Gurmeal Singh, 31, is in line for a payout after being made to do the riot course while off work with stress, reports the Daily Express.

September 26th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - Ever so shy when it comes to his personal life and plaudits, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who turned 77 Saturday, said he was indebted to the people of India for the faith they have reposed in him, even as he treated the accompanying delegation to a cake. "I am grateful to the people of India, who have given me this unique opportunity to serve them," the prime minister said amid birthday wishes from journalists.

September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who turns 77 Saturday, has vowed to dedicate himself to the nation, saying people's renewal of confidence in him after five years in office was a debt he could never pay off. "I am grateful to people of India for giving me opportunity to serve the nation," he told reporters here Friday.

September 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan government is considering commuting death sentences, but such a step may not help the cause of Sarabjeet Singh, the Indian inmate who has been awarded a death sentence by a Lahore anti-terrorism court in October 1991. Interior Advisor Rehman Malik said the government has sent a draft to the law division seeking legal opinion on the proposal to commute death sentences.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has condoled the death of former Bangladesh Finance Minister Saifur Rahman Saheb who died in a car accident today. In his message, Dr Singh said: "I was deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic demise of Saifur Rahman.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was not an accident, reveals lawyer Michael Mansfield in his new book. Mansfield had represented Egyptian businessman Mohamed Fayed at the inquest into the crash.

August 27th, 2009 LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - Over 100,000 people in India, including former test cricketers and chief justices, have signed a petition addressed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari seeking clemency for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian currently on death row in a Pakistani prison. Awais Sheikh, the counsel for Sarabjit, was quoted by a private television channel as saying that said he had brought back a mercy petition with more than 100,000 signatures from a recent visit to India.

August 17th, 2009 BRISBANE - An Indian Australian woman, who was found dead in her Brisbane home, is said to have lied repeatedly to her family about her ongoing relationship with her alleged murderer, a court has been told. Vijay Singh today told the Brisbane Magistrates Court he had not approved of his 24-year-old daughter Neelma's relationship with Max Sica in the months leading up to her death.

July 19th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The inspiring tale of Malay Sikh community, which gave its blood, sweat and tears to carve a niche in Malaysia, has been narrated in Darshan Singh Gill's book, 'Sikh Community of Malaysia.' His book traces roots of two-year-old, Jaevina Kaur, whose great grandfather Boor Singh Gill came to Malaysia from his native village in Punjab in 1911. He started a cattle farm in Menglembu, Perak, with a few cows.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) doctor Thursday lost his father who was seriously injured when he fell into a large pit left uncovered by civic authorities here. Sher Singh, 67, succumbed at the AIIMS Trauma Centre to internal head injuries he suffered Monday after collapsing into the pit dug up outside the Syndicate bank in South Delhi's Chattarpur area.

July 9th, 2009 LAHORE - Sarabjit Singh's mercy plea, requesting that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment, has been forwarded to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, The Daily Times reports. The plea was moved after the Supreme Court rejected Singh's petition challenging the death sentence awarded to him earlier.

July 6th, 2009 LAHORE - Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death on charges of staging bomb blasts here in 1990, will file a mercy petition before Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, his lawyer said Monday. "I will file the mercy petition Wednesday.

June 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A former lawyer who represented Sarabjit Singh, the Indian on death row in Pakistan, has appealed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to either pardon him or commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. Rana Abdul Hamid said Zardari should act on the several mercy petitions that were pending before him.