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MEA in talks with local authorities in Yemen on Nimisha Priya’s execution, Karnataka government blames RCB and organisers over Bengaluru stampede, and more in The Hindu’s top news of July 17, 2025.

The bench observed that while the crime was undeniably grave, the courts below had relied solely on its brutality to award the death sentence.

His decisive intervention in delaying a Malayali nurse’s execution in Yemen has revived a global clemency effort, even as his ...