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…
Shillong, June 17 (IANS) The Meghalaya High Court has ordered a CBI inquiry into an alleged recruitment scam of the police conducted by the Meghalaya Public Service Commission. Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen issued the order…
Brasilia, June 17 (IANS) Brazilian interim President Michel Temer has denied involvement in a corruption case that forced a third minister to step down. Temer on Thursday mounted a spirited defence against allegations by Sergio…
Sydney, June 17 (IANS) A man was arrested on Friday after he got out of his taxi and started climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Footage from a news helicopter showed the man sitting on one…
Washington, June 17 (IANS) Applying some physics to study how terrorist groups grow online, a team of researchers has developed a model to identify behavioural patterns among Islamic State (IS) supporters, providing law enforcement agencies…
Ahmedabad, June 17 (IANS) A special court here on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment 11 persons, of the 24 convicted for the Gulberg Society massacre of 2002. One of the convicts was sentenced to 10…
Quito, June 17 (IANS) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced that the government has renewed a state of emergency which was declared following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 16 for another 30 days. The president renewed…
WASHINGTON D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Orlando, June 17 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Thursday told relatives of those killed or wounded in last Sunday’s shooting in Orlando that their stories have…
Cairo, June 17 (IANS) The Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said on Thursday that the cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been recovered but found damaged. “The device has been recovered in…