Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Type: Person

Name: Pratibha Devisingh Patil (Pratibha Patil)

Title: President (2007)

Organization: Office of the President (INDIA)

Date of Birth: 19/12/1934

Place of Birth: Jalgaon of Maharashtra

Nationality: India

Fact Sheet: Biography for Pratibha Devisingh Patil

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

An Abstract Hunger

The UPA-II government’s flagship programme, the Food Security Bill, which comes with a neat price tag of Rs 1.23 lakh crore, holds the promise of eradicating hunger. If passed, the bill, it is expected, will ensure foodgrain to 67 per cent of the poor. ... [Published Outlook India - May 18 2013]

Entities: Raman Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Vilas Muttemwar

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Times Music launches second volume of music album labeled âLoriesâ

Times Music recently launched volume two of a music album for children titled ‘Lories'. The event took place on May 12 at Sunville Banquets in Mumbai, keeping in mind the significance of the date as Mother's Day. Universal India Events was brought on ... [Published EventFAQs - May 14 2013]

Entities: Alka Yagnik, Anand (India), India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 2 reports

Sonia Gandhi

Auction of Gandhi's Memorabilia in the UK Opposed

With more of Mahatma Gandhi's personal effects, including his will, set to go under the hammer later this month in the UK, writer and Gandhian Giriraj Kishore has demanded that government frame a strict law to prevent auction of such items that are part ... [Published Outlook India - May 05 2013]

Entities: Giriraj Kishore, Sonia Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, United Kingdom

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 4 reports

Centre for review of SC verdict on Das

NEW DELHI, May 4 – Beleaguered Mahendra Nath Das’s legal ordeal may be far from over, with the Ministry of Home Affairs planning to file a fresh petition in the Supreme Court seeking review of the verdict commuting his death sentence to life imprison ... [Published Assam Tribune - May 04 2013]

Entities: Abdul Kalam, Verdict, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Supreme Court

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

She was duly informed, says Home Ministry

Denying that the then President, Pratibha Patil, was kept in the dark, the Home Ministry says her predecessor A.P.J. Kalam's acceptance of a mercy petition from Mahendra Nath Das of Assam, who was sentenced to death in a murder case, was conveyed to ... [Published The Hindu - May 03 2013]

Entities: Kalam, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Official Statement

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 4 reports

Abdul Kalam

SC invokes Kalam to give Das life term

New Delhi, May 2: The Supreme Court yesterday commuted Assam?s death row convict Mahendra Nath Das sentence to life term, saying the Union home ministry had withheld from former President Pratibha Patil the fact that her predecessor A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 03 2013]

Entities: Abdul Kalam, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Assam Government

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 13 reports

Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Death sentence of murder convict commuted

NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to murder convict MN Das, whose mercy petition was rejected by then president Pratibha Patil.A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi allowed the plea of Das ... [Published Oman Tribune - May 02 2013]

Entities: Homicide, Supreme Court, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Saved from the gallows! Assam’s Das thanks God

Das wept with joy when the news of the revised sentence was conveyed to him at the Jorhat Central Jail where he is currently lodged, jail officials said. ?At last, God has answered my prayers. I am grateful to him?, Das, who spends his time in jail reading ... [Published Firstpost.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: Mahendra Kumar, life sentence, K. R. Narayanan, prison, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Paying tribute to Bolywood's Yash Chopra

Former President, Pratibha Patil (C) interacts with the wife of deceased film director Yash Chopra, Pamela Chopra (L) and Indian Bollywood film actor Hrithik Roshan during the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema and the ... [Published Emirates247 - May 01 2013]

Entities: Dadasaheb Phalke, Yash Chopra, Urmila Matondkar, Hrithik Roshan, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 4 reports

High-level panel to probe chit fund scam

A high-level commission formed by the West Bengal government to probe the chit fund scam will start work soon, a senior minister said here Tuesday.The state cabinet Tuesday ratified the decision to set up the commission headed by retired Calcutta High ... [Published ProKerala.com - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: All India Trinamool Congress Party, Mamata Banerjee, Partha Chatterjee

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 2 reports

‘Killer’ marines party with Mancini at Vatican Embassy

It’s party time for Italian marines — Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone — facing trial for the killing of two Indian fishermen.Currently put up at the Italian embassy here, the duo attended a birthday party on Saturday at the Vatican Embassy here. ... [Published New Indian Express - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: The Vatican, Catholic, Christy Fernandes, Pratibha Devisingh Patil

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 2 reports

A flawed notion of mercy comment

Tags: Mery Petition | Supreme CourtFrom 2001-2011, the death penalty was finally awarded to 1,455 persons.AA AThe quality of mercy varies from person to situation but it is for all: the preferred rich and the unpreferred poor. Dispensing mercy is a compassionate ... [Published India Today - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Capital Punishment, Supreme Court, Gonda (India), Criminal

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