The Goa Police had initially concluded after the first autopsy that the British girl had died due to drowning. However, Fiona MacKeown, the girl's mother, suspected foul play and claimed that the police was trying to cover up the case. After immense pressure from Fiona, the state police agreed to conduct a second autopsy.
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An indefinite curfew has been clamped in three upper Assam towns as violence against army and administration continued unabated, leaving at least six dead, 40 injured.
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'Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the ill-fated aircraft have been retrieved. AAIB (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau) is conducting investigations,' Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted, as fresh questions were raised on the safety parameters of the runway.
'What you do today defines what you are going to be tomorrow.'
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'There are many more bad marriages than we want to acknowledge,' says Deepa Narayan.
The DGP has been directed to inform NHRC about steps being taken to ensure safety of citizens, especially women.
'We were shocked to know about her death.' 'We couldn't believe it because she was not sick or in a bad condition.'
Around 700 migrant workers, women and children have lost their lives in this reverse migration. But what is happening today with the migrant labour is only a continuation of the policies pursued by the Modi regime during the last six years. It is not for nothing that India was ranked the most dangerous country in the world for women in 2018 by the Thompson Reuters Foundation poll, points out Rashme Sehgal.
Hundreds of Muslims rallied in Rome and Milan on Saturday to show solidarity with the victims of jihadist attacks.
Hoque said he alerted the chiefs of NIA and CBI against Chowdhury.
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Director Shonali Basu and her actors on the making of what appears to be a memorable movie.
The Rohingyas were illegal immigrants and not refugees who had applied for asylum in India, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday.
M C Mary Kom pulled no punches as she lambasted critics and challengers after securing her second Olympic appearance. Her reference was to the selection controversy that preceded the qualifiers when former junior world champion Nikhat Zareen sought Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju's intervention while demanding a trial bout against the Manipuri. The ill-tempered and hyped trial bout was won by Mary Kom.
Sukanya Verma looks at notable troikas in Bollywood's catalog of three hero vehicles.
Four children died during a routine vaccination drive in three different villages of Mohanlalganj area on the outskirts of Lucknow on Saturday."Minutes after being administered doses for prevention of measles, tuberculosis and Vitamin A deficiency, these children developed a strange kind of sickness. By the time they were rushed to the nearest hospital, they were dead," said District Magistrate Anil Kumar Sagar.
Photographer John Moore, who took the picture that has come to symbolise the horror of the new family-separation policy in the United States, reveals what happened that night.
Cutting across party lines, members of Parliament on Wednesday voiced concern over the law and order situation in the capital and adjoining areas, with Community Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat, alleging that the National Capital Region was turning into a "crime haven'.
'Love Sonia is a motion picture with the ambitions of a novel.' 'When I walked out of Love Sonia this Monday night, I walked out with a hushed audience that seemed too overcome by the raw power of the film to even pause for applause,' notes Sreehari Nair.
Both civil and criminal action was being initiated against the hospital which was severely indicted of lapses by a probe panel in its report pertaining to the death of the seven-year-old girl, an official spokesperson said.
Shane Warne's daughter Brooke Warne has been criticised on social media for making light of tragic events including the Malaysia Airlines crash and the Holocaust.
"We have constituted a medical board (for the inquiry into the incident) and our priority is to save the lives of those athletes (girls)," Sonowal said on the sidelines of a conference in New Delhi on Friday.
The rape of two teenaged cousins who were found dead in mysterious circumstances in Badaun seems "doubtful", indicates the CBI probe in the infamous killings in May which sparked a nationwide outrage.
Parliamentarian from the northeast on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in wake of the outrage over death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh in New Delhi, an incident which the latter described as condemnable.
The Blue Whale challenge didn't spring out of nowhere. It belongs to the well-established tradition of the glamourisation of self-harm on the internet.
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The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl in New Delhi on December 16, 2012 that shook the nation's conscience and led to widespread protests.
The victim's father said the alleged conversation was recorded eight months ago and he had got the tape from Kripal Singh, the slain key witness in the Jodhpur rape case.
'The Modi government must create conditions to integrate millions into the rural economy as many migrants are certainly not going to return to live an undignified life,' notes Ramesh Menon.
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