You are hooked on The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case from the first episode, applauds Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The LTTE were the pioneers of that.'
'The CBI did a wonderful job of tracking down the killers, but at the end of the day, all the hard work went for a toss.' 'If we had caught them alive, the operation would have been successful completely.'
Senior leaders of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in India are calling for action against Rajya Sabha MP and national spokesperson Sasmit Patra for allegedly creating confusion among lawmakers regarding the Waqf (Amendment) Bill. The controversy arose after Patra, despite the party's announced opposition to the Bill, revealed he had voted in favor of it and stated that MPs could vote according to their conscience. The situation has led to accusations of a possible "deal" between the BJD and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The state government, citing law and order issues due to protests by certain groups in the event of the RSS taking out a route march on Gandhi Jayanthi (Oct 2), refused permission.
He takes over the CBI in challenging times. The perception is that the agency is reduced to being an instrument of blackmail and intimidation by successive governments.
The Tamil Nadu government's decision to release late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassins from prison a day after the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of three of the convicts to life term, has triggered a major debate. Vicky Nanjapp presents a cross-section of opinions on the decision.
The four accused were shot dead on NH-44 near Hyderabad -- the same highway-- where the charred body of a 27-year-old veterinarian was found.
In a bid to give more autonomy to the Central Bureau of Investigation, an affidavit was filed before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, placing on record recommendations of a Group of Ministers on making the agency autonomous. Vicky Nanjappa speaks to two former directors of the intelligence agency and seeks their views.
Amid a raging debate on the issue of clemency for killers of Rajiv Gandhi, the main investigator in the 20-year-old case D R Karthikeyan says that he will be happy if the death penalty of the three accused is commuted to life sentence.
At President Kalam's Rameswaram home, his family hold a prayer ceremony of the eve of his first death anniversary.
The former CBI director's remark came in the wake of the premiere investigating agency's recent raids at the residence of a former senior official belonging to the country's external intelligence arm Research and Analysis Wing.
He and co-driver Kumar Ramaswamy of Team MRF finished over four minutes ahead of second-placed R Karthikeyan and co-driver G Satish.
The first post mortem was conducted on December 6, the day they were killed, in a state-run hospital in Mahabubnagar from where the bodies were subsequently shifted to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad.
The bench noted that "conflicting versions about the incident demands an inquiry to uncover the true facts".
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