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Yemeni authorities have agreed to postpone the execution of Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya, which was earlier scheduled for Wednesday. No new date has been announced.

This came a day after the Union government told the Indian Supreme Court that it could not do much more to prevent Priya’s execution.

Hailing from Kerala’s Palakkad, Priya was imprisoned in Yemen for the alleged murder of Yemeni citizen Talal Abdo Mehdi in July 2017. In 2020, Priya was sentenced to death by a trial court in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. On December 30, news reports claimed that Rashad al-Alimi, the chairperson of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, had approved the sentence. Read on.

An undergraduate student, who had set herself on fire in Odisha’s Balasore district, has succumbed to her injuries. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhubaneswar said the student could not be revived “despite adequate resuscitation and all possible supportive management, including renal replacement therapy at Burns ICU”.

She had set herself on fire on Saturday on campus on Saturday shortly after meeting Dilip Ghosh, the principal of Fakir Mohan Autonomous College, to follow up on her complaint against Samir Kumar Sahu, an assistant professor.

Sahu was arrested on Saturday on charges of abetment to suicide, criminal intimidation, sexual harassment, stalking and outraging the modesty of a woman. On Monday, the police also arrested Ghosh. Read on.

Communist Party of India leader K Chandu Rathod, alias Chandu Nayak, was shot dead by unidentified persons in Hyderabad’s Malakpet area. He was taking a walk in a park when three or four unidentified assailants opened fire on him at around 7.30 am.

A case of murder has been registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Arms Act.

Communist Party of India leader K Narayana has claimed that Rathod “was facing threats from some people” and that the murder was driven by “personal enmity”. Read on.

The Maharashtra government has announced that it will investigate the “motives” of the non-profit organisation Praja Foundation, after it released a report in May highlighting the poor conditions of public and community toilets in Mumbai. Shiv Sena MLA and Maharashtra Cabinet minister Uday Samant has claimed that the report was “not accurate”.

In its report, the NGO had said that there is only one public toilet seat for every 752 men and 1,820 women in the city. This is much below the guidelines under the Swachh Bharat Mission, which recommends at least one public toilet seat for every 100 to 400 men and 100 to 200 women.

The non-profit also highlighted that there is only one community toilet seat for every 86 men and 81 women. A community toilet is a shared facility meant for a defined group of residents or an entire settlement. The Swachh Bharat Mission norms prescribe one community toilet for 35 men and 25 women, respectively.

Rejecting the report’s findings, Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde claimed on Monday that Mumbai has one toilet seat for every 46 men and 38 women. Read on.

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