Humanitarian grounds News

North Korea released US student Otto Warmbier "on humanitarian grounds", state media said on Thursday, two days after he was evacuated from Pyongyang after falling into a coma while imprisoned in a labour camp.

Two prominent Indian-American doctors here facing deportation as their travel documents had expired have got a last-minute reprieve on humanitarian grounds, in an unusual act of grace by US authorities who seem to be bent on cracking down on illegal immigrants.

An Indian man was on Wednesday handed over to the BSF on "humanitarian grounds" by Pakistani security forces, days after he inadvertently crossed the border.