New Delhi, July 15 (Reporter) The execution of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse who is on a death row in Yemen, has been postponed following efforts by Government of India, official sources said here today. Nimisha, 37, was to be executed in Yemen tomorrow on charges of murdering her business partner—a Yemeni national—in 2017. Three years later her appeal against the conviction was rejected by the Yemeni Supreme Court. “In the case of Ms. Nimisha Priya, it has been learnt that the local authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution scheduled for July 16,” the sources said. They said Government of India, which has since the beginning of the case, been rendering all possible assistance in the matter, has made concerted efforts in recent days to seek more time for the family of Nimisha Priya to reach a mutually agreeable solution with the other party. “Despite the sensitivities involved, Indian officials have been in regular touch with the local jail authorities and the prosecutor’s office, leading to securing this postponement,” the sources added. As part of efforts to save her, her legal counsel is reported to have offered nearly Rs 8.5 crore (1 million US Dollars) as blood money to the Yemeni national’s family for sparing her life, reports said. However, the family had rejected the offer. Nimisha Priya, from Kerala’s Palakkad district, had moved to Yemen in 2011 after completing her nursing training programme. She was arrested for allegedly murdering her business partner, Talal Abdo Mahdi, in 2017. Nimisha who was working as a nurse in Yemen, was allegedly subjected to torture and assault by the Yemeni man she murdered. The Yemeni national had taken her passport and was not returning it. To retrieve her passport, she allegedly attempted to sedate him. However, an overdose of the sedative reportedly caused his death. A group 'Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council' had filed a PIL in Supreme Court in India seeking directions to the Central government to take urgent diplomatic steps to secure her release and save her from execution. The Central government on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it had exhausted all possible options to save Nimisha. “There is a point to which the Government of India can go. We have reached it. We also told the public prosecutor if the execution could be suspended. But it has not worked out. Nothing matters to the Yemen government,’’ Attorney General R Venkataramani said while appearing for the Centre. "We got an informal communication that execution would be put in abeyance but we don't know if it will work out. This is not an area where government can be asked to do something beyond defined limit,” he said adding that the government had explored all methods, including negotiations, but nothing had worked so far. The petitioner claimed to have arranged ‘blood money’, the compensation payable to the deceased’s family under Yemeni law to secure her release from execution. The petitioner’s counsel also submitted that they were willing to pay a higher amount of blood money if that could resolve the matter The difficulty India is facing arises because Yemeni capital, Sanaa, is controlled by Houthi rebels who are locked in a prolonged civil war with Yemen's government. India does not recognise the Houthi rebels. India had evacuated about 4500 Indian citizens from war-torn Yemen. However, Nimisha did not leave...////...