The apex human rights body in the country had taken cognisance of the encounter killings, saying it was a matter of concern and needed to be investigated carefully.
The blaze erupted around 11 am in the intensive care unit (ICU), where 20 COVID-19 patients were undergoing treatment.
'If the Kukis and Meiteis are the warring groups, then we need to find space for a third group which can mediate between the two.'
Eleven more deaths were reported on Thursday, taking the total death toll to 38, a senior Delhi Health Department official told PTI.
In another twist in the Sheena Bora murder case, bone samples of her charred body collected in 2012 were found by forensic experts to be not matching those obtained from the remains which were exhumed recently.
'William Mustoe, the director of horticulture during British rule, named the Presidential Palace garden after the Mughals.' 'He simply kept the name because it was made on the pattern of a Mughal garden.''He simply kept the name Mughal gardens because it was made on the pattern of Mughal garden.'
The Telangana high court had directed authorities to conduct a second post-mortem on the bodies of the four accused.
Wailing relatives of coronavirus patients who perished in the blaze at a Bharuch hospital in Gujarat gathered outside the building in the wee hours on Saturday, blaming the facility administration for the tragedy.
Justice Ananda Sen said that the shocking incident has prompted the court to say that "Hathras (like places) is not only in the state of Uttar Pradesh, but also is in the state of Jharkhand." The court cannot keep its eyes shut and ignore this type of "lacklustre and shoddy" probe, he said.
Breaking their silence after four days of a shoot-out in which 13 of their village youth died in firing by Para commandos, the Oting Citizens Office, representing Oting village in Nagaland's remote Mon district on Wednesday rubbished official claims and asserted security forces had tried to hide the dead bodies and dress them in fatigues in a bid to pass them off as militants after a botched up ambush.
Forensic experts on Sunday began examination and collecting evidence from the ill-fated AC coach of the Bangalore-Nanded Express that caught fire on Saturday killing 26 people in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur.
The infants were aged between a month and three months, a doctor said. District civil surgeon Pramod Khandate said fire broke out at the Bhandara district hospital at around 1.30 am. There were 17 babies in the unit and seven were rescued, he added.
The UP government transferred the district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police of Mathura following the violence in the district that left 29 dead.
The AFSPA is in force in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur (excluding Imphal Municipal Council Area), Changlang, Longding and Tirap districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and areas falling within the jurisdiction of eight police stations of districts in Arunachal Pradesh bordering Assam.
NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma said, in a tweet, that the NCW won't "leave any stone unturned" till these perpetrators get the punishment they deserve.
Three of those killed were charred beyond recognition, an official said.
Responding to a discussion during Zero Hour in the Lower House, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said he was falling short of words to condemn the heinous crime.
As many as 163 workers of Kitex garments have been arrested for the Christmas day violence at Kizhakkambalam area of Ernakulam district, a move which the company's managing director claimed was targeted to harm him, his business and his political outfit.
The National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah on Wednesday said no peace talks were possible 'under the shadow' of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and termed Union home minister Amit Shah's statement in Parliament on the botched counter-insurgency operation as 'irresponsible.'
Nearly 7,000 paramilitary forces have been deployed in the affected areas of the northeast district since Monday.
A three-member inquiry commission on the encounter killings of four suspects in a case of gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian (named changed as Disha) in Hyderabad in December 2019 revealed that the firing by the police personnel was deliberate.
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 Government of India and FIH [International Hockey Federation] appear heading for a bitter showdown over the affiliation dispute, with the world body refusing to derecognise Hockey India and peeved Sports Ministry maintaining that a "private body" like Hockey India cannot be granted recognition.
The team of DNA experts from Hyderabad, who arrived in Mangalore on Sunday morning to help in identifying the bodies of the Air India plane crash, has its task cut out. The team will stay in the coastal town till each victim's body is identified. Most of the bodies have been charred beyond recognition in the plane crash.A dispute has broken out between the families of Rajendra Ramesh and John Mampilly, both of whom have staked claim for the same body.
Seven passengers were charred to death when a luxury bus caught fire after colliding with a diesel tanker in the wee hours of Wednesday on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway.
The government on Tuesday announced that only four terrorists had entered the Pathankot Air Force station to carry out the strike that left eight people dead. This is contrary to a statement made by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on March 4 when he had said that charred remains, apart from four bodies of terrorists, were found at the debris after security forces searched the Pathankot airforce station when the operation ended.
What went on inside Kolkata's 'house of horror'? Indrani Roy/Rediff.com reports.
The police has registered a case against six persons, including members of temple managing committee and associates of firework contractors, on attempt to murder and other charges in connection with the Putttingal Devi temple fire tragedy, even as the toll rose to 109.
In a tragic incident, a newborn girl was charred to death in fire after an explosion in the CNG kit of an ambulance, an official said on Friday.
At least 23 people including two children have died after a fire broke out in an air-conditioned compartment of the Nanded Bangalore Express in Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours of Saturday. Ten others are have been injured in the mishap.
A case has been registered against temple authorities as permission for firecrackers was denied.
In the Cyberabad incident, all the four accused were killed at one go in an exchange of fire. Police in both the cases claimed that the suspects 'snatched' their weapons and opened fire at them forcing them to retaliatory action 'in self-defence'.
The plane went up in flames as it crashed with an explosion and thick smoke billowed from the spot, leaving passersby and residents living around the airport in a shock.
The fire broke out in the Lord Krishna School located in Kasiraman Street in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district.
Three tests were conducted by the AIIMS forensic department to prove that the charred remains were of Sheena.
73 bodies of militants were recovered. Eight of the bodies were charred beyond recognition.
In a major breakthrough in the serial killings case, the Goa Police arrested two persons who fled to Mumbai for allegedly murdering a 16-year-old girl and later burning her body.
Several of the injured are said to be critical and rescue workers are searching for more casualties in the scorched area.
"Labourers were working on the tanker when the blast took place. Soon, the tanker caught fire that killed five labourers and their bodies were charred. Two persons, who were seriously injured in the incident, were admitted to a local hospital," Bhavnagar SP Mahendrasinh Pawar told PTI.
In one of the worst fire tragedies in Tamil Nadu, 54 persons were charred to death and 50 others injured on Wednesday when a devastating blaze swept through a cracker factory complex at nearby Mudhalipatti.
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