Ahmedabad, June 17 (IANS) Fourteen years after 69 people were massacred at a Muslim housing society here during the 2002 Gujarat riots, an Ahmedabad court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life…
Guwahati, June 17 (IANS) Assam has decided to set up an expert committee to visit China to study the management of the Yellow River to replicate it for taming the Brahmaputra river in the state…
New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) A 92-year-old bed-ridden man — convicted in a 1980 honour killing — is set to spend the rest of his life in jail. A vacation bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar…
Srinagar, June 17 (IANS) A warden at a tribal students hostel here in Jammu and Kashmir allegedly thrashed six girl inmates because they refused to clean her room, police said Friday. A police officer said…
New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) Days after the BJP accused the Kejriwal government of suppressing a report on the Rs 400 crore water tanker scam, Delhi ACB chief M.K. Meena on Friday assured of action…
Aluva (Kerala) June 17 (IANS) An Assamese youth, who was arrested in connection with the murder of law student Jisha, was on Friday remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody. However, the victim’s father has demanded…
New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to a whistleblower in the Vyapam recruitment scam, while hearing a CBI plea to provide it copies of documents and a pen-drive…
New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) Lawyer R.K. Anand has lodged a complaint with Chandigarh Police against media baron Subhash Chandra, who won the recent Rajya Sabha election from Haryana with the BJP backing, and others,…
Ahmedabad, June 17 (IANS) Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was among the 69 killed in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre here, has expressed shock at the “triviality” of the…
Kathmandu, June 17 (IANS) Two commissions set up in Nepal to seek complaints of human rights abuses and forced disappearances during the Maoist insurgency from 1996-2006 have extended for a month the deadline for receiving…
Cairo, June 17 (IANS) The second black box of the crashed EgyptAir plane was retrieved, Egyptian investigators said on Friday. “Lethbridge John vessel, rented by the Egyptian government to take part in the search, has…
Timeline of the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case, in which a special court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment for the killing of 69 people, including Congress MP Ehsan Jafri….
Phnom Penh, June 17 (IANS) A British man was on Friday sentenced to 18 months in prison by a Cambodian court, for sexually abusing three underage boys. Roy Sheppard, 77, was convicted of committing “indecent…
Chennai, June 17 (IANS) A 68-year-old man died while watching Hollywood horror movie “The Conjuring 2” at a cinema hall in Tamil Nadu, late on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred during the night show…
Ahmedabad, June 17 (IANS) Fourteen years after 69 people were massacred at a housing society here during the Gujarat riots, a court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment, one man…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 17 (IANS) A former senior Gujarat police officer, R.B. Sreekumar, on Friday said he was disappointed by the verdict on the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre that left 69 people dead. “The verdict is…
Ahmedabad, June 17 (IANS) Fourteen years after a mob massacred 69 people at the Gulberg Society here, a court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment. A Special Sessions Court also…
By Jai Vipra A staggering 1,275 people died in police custody in India between 2001 and 2013 but less than 50 per cent of custodial deaths led to a case being registered, data from the…
Tokyo, June 17 (IANS) In a fresh setback to Japan’s plans to reactivate nuclear plants that fulfil the new safety parameters, a court has rejected an appeal by the operator of the Takahama nuclear plant…
New York, June 17 (IANS) The Bangladeshi authorities should investigate attacks on secular writers and others but must stop arbitrarily arresting people without proper evidence of a crime, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Between…