Death as penalty
Dara Singh, accused in the horrific Staines’ murder case, has been sentenced to death. S.P.S. Mann says that capital sentence should not be regarded as a penalty but merely as an act of removing incorrigible criminals and serial killers from society.

DEPRIVING a person of his life after ‘due process of law’ is expectedly a controversial issue. Let us begin with death itself. Nature (or whatever powers that be) has created our existence between two nodal points, the much-rejoiced birth and death. Both complement the factum of our existence. Both are points on the same continuum. Neither derogates the other or life itself. They merely define the limits of our existence.

The day The Tribune was ordered to be closed
by M. G. Devasahayam
AT the dawn of June 26, 1975, the Union Territory of Chandigarh was standing testimony to the normalcy that Justice Shah was referring to. It was so normal that I had gone for my usual morning tennis workout and was back home around 8 a.m. My wife Aspil informed me that M.L.Bhanot, Senior Superintendent of Police, had called and had said it was urgent.

A record-setter of sorts
by Neeraj Bagga
AGE has not dampened the spirit of Surinder Singh Azad, a retired superintendent from Customs and Excise Department. He is determined to add more records to the already existing tally of 11 under his name in Limca Book of Records.