The Allahabad high court on Friday acquitted businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in one of the Nithari serial killing cases, setting aside the death sentence awarded to him by a lower court, but upheld the capital punishment handed down to his domestic help Surinder Koli
Calls for boycotting Chinese products have intensified after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the Galwan Valley clash on June 15. The Chinese have so far refused to share details of the casualties they suffered.
The prime minister appealed to people not to panic, saying thronging shops will pose the risk of spread of COVID-19. 'There is absolutely no need to panic; the Centre and states will work together to ensure availability of essential commodities, medicines, etc,' he said.
Locals gathered in front of house number D-45 in Sector 31 of Noida soon after the verdict was pronounced and shouted slogans against police and the Central Bureau of Investigation. Rimpa's mother Dolly Halder was also among the protestors.
Troubles mounted for Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze, who has been facing heat in the murder case of businessman Mansukh Hiran, as a sessions court in Maharashtra's Thane district has refused to grant him interim bail and noted that there was prima facie evidence and material against him.
A Delhi court on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to ex-Army officer S J Choudhary for killing businessman Krishan Sikand in a parcel bomb explosion 26 years ago. Choudhary, 70, was on April 28 found guilty by the court for the murder of Krishan Sikand, who had died in an explosion caused by the parcel bomb delivered at his Sunder Nagar residence here on October 2, 1982.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Choudhary.
The Allahabad high court on Monday extended the stay on the execution of death sentence awarded to Nithari killings prime accused Surinder Koli till December 23.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to file a chargesheet against all seven accused in the Rizwanur Rehman death case.
The 3,064-page chargesheet, filed in a Jammu court under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and various sections of the Indian Penal Code, names self-styled commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen terror group Syed Naveed Mushtaq alias Naveed Babu and his alleged network of aides.
Special CBI Judge M B Gosavi while discharging Amin observed that there was no sufficient evidence against him.
The byelection, which will be the first popularity test for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is being held due to the death of 82-year-old Labour Member of Parliament Piara Singh Khabra.
Chiman Rai, 69, faces the death penalty for allegedly paying two men $10,000 to kill Sparkle Michelle Rai, an African American, in April 2000 after her marriage to his son Rajeev Rai alias Ricky, with whom she had a infant daughter. The 22-year-old was found strangled and stabbed more than a dozen times at the couple's apartment.
The Bad Boy Billionaires series has a lot in common: The three billionaires' hefty ambition, dangerous arrogance and untrammeled power, observes Dhruv Munjal.
The judge ordered Pereira to pay a fine of Rs five lakh, to be distributed among the next of kin of the deceased and eight injured.
Tamil star Suriya's 7aum Arivu was about a virus from China sent to Chennai to wreak havoc while Kaappan was about a locust attack the hero prevents in time -- both films in a sense foresaw what was to come, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
While Chandrasinh's name has also come in connection with Satish Rugani assault case too, the other four do not have any criminal records as such, he said.
Would Americans have endorsed the war of terror if they were not so scared of death, wonders George Soros in his latest book.
Malaysian police have arrested a 36-year-old Indian national near Kuala Lumpur and seized 19 tonnes of white powder, believed to be ketamine, worth USD 7.6 million.
Police said they have recovered the body and sent it for an autopsy. An investigation was launched into the incident.
Reports said that Aslam had received a phone call from the alleged kidnappers demanding a ransom of Rs 2 crore.
Made In China is puerile, flimsy film-making, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Earlier in January this year, the death sentence of Surender Koli was commuted to life imprisonment by the Allahabad high court.
In addition to Pichai and Nadella, IBM's Arvind Krishna, Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra, Ajay Banga from Mastercard and Ann Mukherjee from Pernod are among the six Indian-Americans among over 200 corporate honchos who will advise the President and offer recommendations on how to revive the American economy.
While 10 persons from Karnataka have been confirmed dead, at least seven of them are said to be JD-S workers.
It has been virtually a ten-year wait that's coming to a happy end for the 47-year-old leader, who nurtured the ambition of becoming chief minister soon after his father's death in September 2009.
Varsham carries the stamp of Ranjith Sankar which is enhanced by Mammootty's presence.
Vinod Taneja, 56, was shot and killed at his store just hours before his wife's flight was scheduled to arrive at Jackson International Airport on December 20.
Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V Raman. Jairam Ramesh reveals why he decided to write a book on Edwin Arnold, who wrote The Light of Asia.
Rana, 59, a childhood friend of David Coleman Headley, was recently released from jail on compassionate ground after he told a US court that he has tested positive for the COVID-19.
Sunil Gomes, 65, was found dead inside his grocery shop at around midday in northwestern Notore district, police superintendent Shyamal Mukherjee told PTI over the phone.
'What made him different was that he was not a banker at all by temperament.' 'He was a businessman, a typical lalaji at that.' 'He had to win at any cost.'
According to an insider, "Winning is all that matters to the BJP. The leaders were warned that he was an undesirable character but they said look at his victory margin."
South African prosecutors on Tuesday withdrew the case against a suspect in the killing of national soccer team captain Senzo Meyiwa, the latest high-profile murder in which police and prosecutors have struggled to build an air-tight case.
The key witness told a Canadian court that that she was threatened by associates of main accused Ripudaman Singh Malik.
Branson was cycling with his two children on the British Virgin Islands when he hit a hump in the road.
Bradman wore the cap during his last Test series on Australian soil, against India in 1947-48. A Sydney businessman snapped it up.
In a late night ruling, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of Nithari killings convict Surinder Koli, who was set to be hanged in Meerut jail for killing children in a house in Nithari village in Noida near Delhi in 2006.
'To further her story, Kangana has used a dead person and a suicide case.' 'She should be ashamed of herself. Ashamed.'
In a new twist, a renegade Taliban militia, the Suicide Group of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, has taken responsibility for killing Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, claiming she was an "Indian spy".
