A member whose party is a supporter of the United Progressive Alliance on Friday pleaded in the Lok Sabha for saving Rajiv Gandhi's killers -- Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan -- from the gallows.
'The Americans want to have a good relationship with India. They see it as a counterweight to China. And also American businesses are all trying to get out of China and go to India and Vietnam as well, but India largely.'
Uttar Pradesh's deputy chief ministers on Thursday assured strict action against the culprits in the rape and murder of two Dalit girls in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri and urged the opposition to "console the family instead of politicising the matter".
Australia reached a second successive Davis Cup final when Alex de Minaur overpowered Emil Ruusuvuori 6-4 6-3 after Alexei Popyrin beat Otto Virtanen 7-6(5) 6-2 to earn the 28-time champions a 2-0 win over Finland on Friday.
'Where was the armed police?' 'Did you see armed constables around him?' 'There was deep negligence by the UP police and this was a deep conspiracy.'
Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday said India as a nation cannot forgive Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V Prabhakaran for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi though personally she and her family harbours no "hatred or anger" against killers of her father.
India's chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma disclosed that the country's top cricketers are taking injections so that they are able to play despite not being fully fit.
Shruti Haasan joins the many Indian actors at Cannes.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly has passed a resolution demanding that the three killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi should not be hanged. The execution was to take place on September 9.
'Priyanka has done very well in Bollywood and Hollywood. But had she joined politics, it might have been a different story altogether. Given how ambitious she was, she would have made a good youth leader. She might even have launched her own party,' says Sathya Saran
Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi's eight-part crime drama Dahaad, starring Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Varma, Gulshan Devaiah and Sohum Shah will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Authorities in Pakistan have claimed to have cracked a clandestine terror network set up by Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, the jailed killer of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The terror network was operating inside the Central Jail at Hyderabad in Sindh and the provincial government has suspended senior police and jail officials after a large number of cell phones, SIMs and other equipment were found in the prison, The News reported on Thursday.
'I also wish he would lead a spiritual life, confessing his past involvement in criminal activities'
Robert Card, the suspect in the Lewiston, Maine, shooting rampage, was found dead on Friday night, the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office confirmed on Facebook, CNN reported.
Serial killer Umesh Reddy, who has been charged with the rapes and murders of several women, was on Wednesday sentenced to death by the Karnataka High Court. Special judge S R Bannurmath, a senior High Court judge, while pronouncing the verdict, termed Reddy as a violent offender and described the case as 'rarest of the rare' and deserving the death sentence.
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand said by winning his fourth World Chess Championship title early this month he has proved critics who accused him of lacking in killer instinct wrong.
rediffGURU Dr Vinod Kumar, a consultant kidney health specialist at Aster RV Hospital, Bengaluru, tells you how you can take care of your kidneys.
Arjun Menon looks at some Tamil films from the last decade that tick all the right boxes, and lists where you can watch them.
A 36-year-old man, working as a senior manager with e-commerce giant Amazon, was shot dead in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura area, the police said on Wednesday.
Italy returned to the Davis Cup final after a gap of 25 years as Jannik Sinner beat Novak Djokovic in both singles and doubles to secure a 2-1 victory over Serbia on Saturday that earned the 1976 champions a title clash with Australia.
The NIA seized several electronic gadgets and documents during the searches at the houses of Abdul Nasir and Abdul Rahaman in Kodagu district and Naushad in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka.
From Vijay's fiery latest to atom bomb origins, brace yourself for some explosive action on OTT this week.
A division bench comprising Justices Min Bahadur Rayamajhi and Kalyan Shrestha rejected the plea by French lawyer Isabelle Coutant Peyre to defend Sobhraj, 64, during a hearing on Tuesday, saying that the court does not have such precedence, officials said. Sobhraj, a half-Vietnamese and half-Indian, is a French national.
A serial killer, who used to decapitate his victims and dump the bodies near the Tihar jail daring the police to nab him, was on Monday sent behind bars till death by a Delhi court.
Chagala, the contract killer accused in the murder of Budhia's coach Biranchi Das, was picked up for interrogation after reaching Bhubaneswar on Thursday. He was arrested by the Bhopal police while appearing on a live interview with a private TV channel on April 22
Two days after 20-year-old Radhika Tanwar was shot dead outside her college in Delhi, the police are trying to ascertain the identity of the killer, reports Sahim Salim
Merry Christmas has a breathtaking climax that will have you sighing like you've never sighed in a Sriram Raghavan movie before, applauds Sukanya Verma.
"We seem to have trouble in icing the cake," said the NZ captain.
Three of the four accused who were involved in the recent Rohini Court shootout in the national capital had planned to surrender before the judge after killing rival gangster Jitender Gogi, according to sources.
The Chinese police have arrested a man believed to be a serial killer targetting mostly young males in southwest China's Yunnan province and charged him with 11 murders.
Agatha Christie meets Vidya Balan in Neeyat, Mayur Sanap tells us after viewing its trailer.
As part of the investigation, they would be taken to the spot where Pandya was murdered.
'This incident offers ammunition to those inside the US government and elsewhere who question the wisdom of trusting India, so it will have a lasting consequence no matter how it is managed.'
Nepal's Supreme Court on Friday rejected 'bikini killer' Charles Sobhraj's appeal against his conviction in a murder case. A division bench of Justices Ram Kumar Prasad Shah and Gauri Dhakal upheld the 20-year term for the notorious criminal, who has been linked to a series of backpacker killings of tourists across Asia.
Under mounting pressure from students and the Indian government, Australia's police on Thursday stepped up efforts to identify the killer of 21-year old Nitin Garg, who was brutally murdered recently. Inspector Bernie Edwards, Australia's leading homicide squad detective, appealed to public for information on the murder, which occurred in a Melbourne park last Saturday night as the 21-year old Indian was going to work at a nearby eatery. An information caravan was set up.
Nepal's apex court on Wednesday put off for two weeks its verdict in a murder case against Indian- origin 'bikini killer' Charles Sobhraj, saying it needed more time to pronounce the final judgment in the matter.
Volkswagen's new SUV is set to lock horns with half a dozen rivals, says Pavan Lall.
'If he has not achieved 'Congress mukt Bharat' even now, the question of his creating a 'DMK mukt Tamil Nadu' does not arise,' points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
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