A 29-year-old Indian IT analyst died on Thursday after allegedly falling from the balcony of the third floor of an apartment in Sydney.
The curse of stardom, especially in a country like India -- which wants its Gods to be tidy and punctilious -- is that stardom forces you to stop exploring the frozen sea inside you, and instead inspires you more and more to perform out of a small puddle, observes Sreehari Nair.
Ranbir Singh Shergill, 18, was arrested this weekend and has been ordered held.
Canada's town of Edmonton was rocked on New Year's Eve when police announced that seven adults and two children had been killed in what they called a 'senseless mass murder'.
The biggest alibi, Nitish Rane has are his special protection officers that have been deputed by the state. His two security officers have denied seeing Sheikh come to the office on Wednesday, when the shooting is supposed to have taken place. Sheikh's case is further weakened by the fact that after conducting extensive tests, the doctors at the Hiranandani Hospital in Powai have ruled out a bullet injury.
At least nine Israelis were stabbed by a 23-year-old Arab man on a bus in Tel Aviv, the latest in a series of 'lone-wolf' terror attacks in which Palestinians have used knives, meat cleavers and vehicles as weapons.
This is the first terrorist attack on British soil since the murder of fusilier Lee Rigby in May, 2013.
Eight police personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, were gunned down in a village near Kanpur city by the henchmen of a criminal who lost two of them in a firefight later, officials said.
Much of Bangladesh was paralysed on Monday by the latest strike called by Jamaat-e-Islami, with two powerful explosions rocking Shahbag Square, the epicentre of a massive campaign demanding toughest punishment for leaders of the fundamentalist party for war crimes during the 1971 war.
The Pakistani JIT concluded its six-day discussions with NIA on the probe into the Pathankot terror attack even as the visiting officials recorded statements of witnesses.
The court also framed charges for destruction of evidence and under Section 328 (causing hurt by poisoning with an intent to hurt) of the RPC.
Alfredo Pacheco, a soccer player who played for the Salvadoran national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match-fixing, was murdered on Sunday, the Salvadoran attorney general's office said.
Two people at the scene were treated for injuries after the vehicle crashed into the large steel barriers erected around the Houses of Parliament complex.
A man has been arrested for trying to extinguish the Olympic torch by throwing a bucket of water over it as it passed through his farming town of Maracaju in central Brazil, an officer at the local police station said on Monday.
The bench noted that "conflicting versions about the incident demands an inquiry to uncover the true facts".
The final medical report by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar says that she died of poisoning, administered either through oral route or injection and the injuries on her barring one were a result of a "scuffle", according to the police FIR lodged in this case.
'Chanting slogans, chest thumping, calling us big nationalists, but you don't stop at traffic lights.' 'What nationalism are you talking about?'
A 30-year-old woman's body was found near a village school in Uttar Pradesh's Mohanlalganj area. Sharat Pradhan reports that the victim was brutally stabbed and then left to bleed.
A serial killer may be insane; a show about a serial killer need not be a celebration of his insanity.
A 37-year-old mother has been arrested on charges of killing eight children, including seven of her own, in the regional city of Cairns in north Queensland in Australia.
"Every actor's life is short. It exists only between 'Action' and 'Cut'," Mohanlal once told Subhash K Jha.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday began investigations in the sensational murders of 14-year-old Aarushi and her domestic help Hemraj in Noida last month and formed a 25-member team in a bid to crack the case. After re-registering the case filed by Noida police, the team visited the scene of crime and spoke to some of the kin of the deceased besides interacting with the Noida police officers who were probing the twin murder.
Ajit Doval, former chief of Intelligence Bureau and now head of Vivekanada International Foundation, continues his furious argument against any kind of CBI action against his former colleague Rajinder Kumar in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case of 2004.
'I don't think such a meeting ever happened... I don't see how it is even possible without people coming to know immediately,' says Julio Ribeiro.
The status report, filed before a division bench of justices S K Mittal and H S Sidhu, "denied the charges of molestation and gangrape during the intervening night of February 22/23 at Murthal in Sonipat district."
In a rare opportunity, former India captain Rahul Dravid will be exchanging his views with some of country's finest investigators at a CBI function to deliberate on corruption in sports in the backdrop of fixing allegations in cricket.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
Four persons were on Tuesday arrested for their alleged involvement in the killing of 45 Shia Ismaili Muslims who were gunned down by IS militants in a bus attack in Pakistan's volatile Karachi city last week.
The two accused were re-arrested on August 9 after they joined the police investigation and charged with attempted abduction under section 365 of the IPC and section 511, which relates to an attempt to commit an offence punishable with life or other imprisonment.
'The director has tried to be neutral. But Talvar won't leave the audience confused, for sure.'
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
The Rajiv Gandhi assassination, investigation and trial were all jinxed in parts, recalls N Sathiya Moorthy.
In a 228-193 vote, which was mainly on party lines, the House had appointed seven impeachment managers to argue Democrats' case for removing Trump from the office.
The film is the crime scene of a murder-suicide where the script kills common sense and then puts the gun to it's own head.
Ji Zhongxing, 33, who lost one of his hands while setting home made explosives the Beijing Capital International Airport in July, was sentenced to six years in jail, according to a court ruling by the Beijing Chaoyang District Court.
A CRPF vehicle had suffered slight damage when a Santro car went up in flames after an explosion at Tethar village, seven km from Banihal, shortly after a Jammu-bound convoy crossed the Jawahar Tunnel, the gateway to Kashmir valley.
'The true conceit of Drishyam is that it makes its audience an honorary accomplice in the crimes that its lead characters commit.'
Three Delhi policemen have been attached to district lines after it was found that they allegedly let off a suspected Bhindranwale Tigers Force terrorist after allegedly taking money from him.
A machete-wielding man who stabbed three men at London Underground train station on Saturday has been charged with attempted murder.
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.' 'There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the overall environment of sentimentality.' 'And the more effort you put into including these other voices, into assimilating these spoilsports, the more balanced your depiction of the tragedy in question will be,' observes Sreehari Nair.
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