The Russian model had a blast with friends as she explored Jerusalem.
Indrani laughed loudly. She looked like the cat that got the cream, smiling gaily. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.
Bandu Tidke, who was sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl, was sentenced to death by trial court in Bagalkot in 2005. Tidke was a HIV positive patient and died in 2007 in a government hospital in Belgaum.
A student opened fire on his friends in a school cafeteria in north Seattle, killing at least one person and injuring several others before killing himself. Four students, including two cousins of the gunman, were shot in the head, with three severely wounded at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the tragic events of September 30 in the most populous state in the Indian Union, Uttar Pradesh.
Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein is watchable for its able cast of reliable veterans and talented youngsters, notes Sukanya Verma.
'That is how our machinery operates and sees every prisoner.'
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal has decided to donate Rs 6 lacs -- Rs 50,000 each -- to the families of the 12 Central Reserve Police Force jawans killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh last week.
How should one billion Indians, for whom deprivation has become an inescapable way of life, join us in celebrating 75 years of Independence? And where do we go from here? asks Kalyan Singhal.
'At the end of the day, we are all humans.'
Ram Pal, serving in the army and a native of Khadia Kurd village, and Neena Kumari of the same village were in love for the past one year, they said.
The girl was admitted to the hospital after complaints of vomiting and frequent motion.
Two persons, including a minor girl, died in a fire caused by a blast in a firecracker factory near Jalgaon in North Maharashtra on Tuesday, police said.
The stone pelters apparently targeted the SUV as they thought it was an official vehicle.
Her body was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family alleging the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night.
Six months after Russian teenager Elena Sukhanova was found dead on the tracks near Thivim railway station in Goa, her family now suspects that she was murdered.
Angry supporters of the hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) attacked a garment factory on Friday and lynched its general manager Diyawadana, who was in his 40s, before setting his body on fire over allegations of blasphemy.
'I will try and make my panchayat a model one in Bihar.'
Love Hostel stays focused on the murky present and revelling in its increasingly dark outcome. Despite the reach of social media and technology, this isn't the cushy, liberal India of mainstream culture. It's a lawless, ruthless, endless minefield where uncertainty and bigotry go hand in hand and patriarchy is a foregone conclusion, observes Sukanya Verma.
Many parents whose newborn babies were among those dead in the Bhandara hospital fire have blamed the staff there for dereliction of duty. They claimed that no doctor or nurse was present in the unit when fire broke out.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets the families of those killed in the police firing on Sterlite protestors in Thoothukudi, and finds a similar tale running through their lives.
The tragedy occurred in the river Meghna in the Munshiganj district, about 32 kilomtres south of Dhaka after the ferry collided head-on with a tanker carrying oil.
When Sheena got down from his car on the evening of April 24, 2012, Rahul says she told him, "Bye. Love you. See you later."
'How can so many misfortunes fall on one beautiful family?'
The national flag will fly at half-mast on Monday and government employees throughout the state will wear black badges to denounce the act, an official spokesman said.
A woman and her two minor granddaughters were killed when an angry mob set alight several houses, shops in Pakistan's Punjab province belonging to the minority Ahmadi sect in riots that followed the alleged posting of blasphemous content on Facebook.
Dear Friend is for those who idealised Dil Chahta Hai all out of proportion, and then warmed up to the premise that friendship could be a lot more complicated, and transient, observes Sreehari Nair.
As bodies are being continually pulled out of the muck-filled power project tunnel in Tapovan, the atmosphere outside is getting grimmer with families of the missing people losing hope of seeing them alive.
Friendships are not merely severed, but built over scuffles. And just about anything can stir things up -- a long-standing feud, a pointless stare, a disrupted moral stance, a fist that ricochets off a face and smacks another face in the near vicinity, observes Sreehari Nair.
Unlike other top police officers, A A Khan spoke boldly --- be it while defending 'encounters' in many of which he was involved, or in tracing the cause of the ghastly Radhabai Chawl incident, recalls Jyoti Punwani. Encounters were useful, he said, because hardened criminals who were targeted were beyond reform and no good for society.
A few days ago, a girl was seriously injured in a stone-pelting incident in downtown city of Srinagar.
The Mathura MP's Mercedes car reportedly rammed into an oncoming Maruti Alto.
'I'm trying to move away from what I've done before, not because I'm not happy with what it was, but because I have already done that.'
'I don't know how long Malaika will continue to do these popular songs, as I feel she has had her run.' Arbaaz Khan talks about his gorgeous wife Malaika Khan Arora, and living under the shadow of his superstar brother Salman Khan.
Twenty-two people were killed since Friday evening in heavy rains that lashed vast areas of Uttar Pradesh triggering house collapses, inundating low-lying areas and creating traffic snarls. All major rivers in the state were rising menacingly with some crossing the red mark following incessant rains, official sources said.
Nitisha Negi, was one of the five Indian footballers who were swept away by a huge wave on Sunday when they ventured into the seawaters after the completion of the Games. The Pacific Games were not recognised by the International School Sports Federation, the parent international body. The Indian contingent had around 120 members.
We bring you this excerpt from Anurag Garg's latest book Love not for Sale.
She will star opposite Akshay Kumar in Yash Raj Film's historical drama, Prithviraj.
On April 15, 2013, the convicts had shoved objects in the victim's private parts and leaving her in a house believing she was dead. The child was rescued 40 hours later on April 17 and had to undergo multiple surgeries at All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Delhi.
Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa, one of Pakistan's largest and oldest seminaries and dubbed as a 'university of jihad' by its critics for helping sow violence across the region for decades, has educated more Taliban leaders than any school in the world and its alumni now hold key positions in Afghanistan, according to a media report.
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