The Army’s elite para commandos on Monday, 28 July, claimed to have gunned down the alleged mastermind, and two of his associates. The officials said Sulieman alias Asif, the alleged mastermind, was killed after the security forces launched a surprise action, codenamed ‘Operation Mahadev’.

The death sentence of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who remains lodged in a jail in Yemen for murder, has been overturned by local authorities, according to the office of the Indian Grand Mufti Kanthapuram AP Abubakker Muslaiyar. Read on to know more on this.

Nimisha Priya, a 37-year-old Indian nurse from Kerala, was scheduled to be executed on July 16, after she was convicted of killing a Yemeni national in June 2018, a decision that was upheld by the country’s Supreme Judicial Council in November 2023.