News for 'R Govindaswami'

Pan-India kidney racket unearthed after Maha farmer's complaint

Pan-India kidney racket unearthed after Maha farmer's complaint

Rediff.com31 Dec 2025

An investigation into an illegal kidney racket, triggered by a farmer's complaint, has revealed a pan-India kidney transplant network involving agents, donors, doctors, and hospitals.

Rape-murder convict gives slip from prison, caught within hours

Rape-murder convict gives slip from prison, caught within hours

Rediff.com25 Jul 2025

CCTV footage aired on channels showed a man resembling Govindachamy walking on the roadside with a bundle on top of his head, inside which he had tucked in his left arm, which is missing a hand.

Bodies of slain BRO men arrive in Delhi

Bodies of slain BRO men arrive in Delhi

Rediff.com16 Apr 2008

Bodies of the two Border Roads Organisation personnel, who were killed in a terror attack in Afghanistan, were on Wednesday flown to Delhi.The bodies of M P Singh and C Govindaswamy, engineers with BRO, were airlifted from Kabul and reached the Indira Gandhi International airport this afternoon.Singh's body will be taken to Varanasi and Govindaswamy's to Tamil Nadu. Suspected Taliban extremists targeted Indian construction workers in Nimroz on Saturday, killing the duo.

Afghanistan: 2 Indians killed in terror attack

Afghanistan: 2 Indians killed in terror attack

Rediff.com12 Apr 2008

Two personnel of Border Roads Organisation were on Saturday killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of Indian road construction workers in south west Afghanistan. Nearly 400 BRO personnel are engaged in construction of a key highway between Zaranj and Delaram in Afghanistan as part of India's assistance programme for reconstruction of the war-torn country.