Commencing arguments on the plea challenging the remission granted last year to all the 11 convicts, advocate Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bilkis Bano, submitted she was brutally gang-raped while she was pregnant and her first child was smashed with a rock to death.
At least 12 persons died in the landslide that took place late Wednesday night in remote Irshalwadi, reaching which takes more than an hour from the nearest motorable road.
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Asked after the match how she was feeling about her early departure, Halep replied that she was 'used to it'.
"Why are our jails overcrowded? Why is the the policy of remission being applied selectively?"
Suryakumar Yadav has managed just 16 runs from his first three games in IPL 2023.
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab in a televised address to the county warned that those who were responsible for the devastating catastrophe will be held accountable and not go unpunished.
India could field three spinners against Australia in the final.
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It will be interesting to see if Pakistan, after this snub, competes in the tournament, scheduled to be held from September 2-17.
It's foolish to believe that someone else completes you. It is you alone who are whole and complete, says Aarti David.
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
It was apparently a night of horror in Arnia village of RS Pura sector in Jammu district, situated five kilometre from the International Border, when Pakistani troops resorted to high calibre mortar shelling on the civilian areas, leaving five dead and 34 injured.
A sweeper in a government-run hospital in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district had to stitch on a woman who delivered a baby as the doctor had left the operation theatre.
The 65th Emmys will be held on September 22 in Los Angeles.
Varun Dhawan finds a sweet spot between an Ayushmann Khurrana role-meets-a Salman Khan role and makes it his own, notes Sukanya Verma.
Arnie's back, Varun shape shifts while others fight the good fight and more on OTT this week.
'Or because I am getting a s**tload of money.'
Star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was rewarded with the elite grade A plus retainership.
'We thought all the Jews in the world could live securely in today's world, and that feeling is broken.'
The duo put on 103 runs for the sixth wicket from just 45 balls to turn the match on its head.
The affected children, aged below 5, were admitted to a government hospital, where their condition is stated to be stable, the district official said, adding three healthcare workers will face action for the lapse.
'The Kerala Story is no longer just another film, it's become a movement.'
With the TRS and TDP achieving majority in Telangana and Andhra respectively, the results reveal that both the states will have non-coalition governments. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The Delhi University will set up a Centre for Independence and Partition Studies to facilitate research on the "high voltage politics" accompanying Partition and how the then central leadership failed to contain the "germs of separatism", documents show.
"Law is supposed to be a noble profession," the Supreme Court observed on Thursday, and voiced surprise over how can one of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots practise law after his conviction, the remission of his sentence notwithstanding.
Royal tragedies, loony vampires, nuclear disasters, scoop hunters becoming the story, all that and more on OTT this week.
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, the Union home ministry has issued a notification to that effect.
The United Nations has dedicated a solidarity tree in remembrance of victims of terrorism with a solemn ceremony that also honoured victims of the 2008 Mumbai attack, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the world organisation.
It was another forgettable outing for Mumbai Indians against Chennai Super Kings this season as they suffered a six-wicket thrashing in Chennai on Saturday.
The annual IIFA weekend in Abu Dhabi saw Bollywood's top stars in attendance, as they walked the green carpet and put up power-packed performances.
DC is keen on rebooting its superhero universe, and by all means, The Flash is a decent step in that direction, notes Mayur Sanap.
Recounting their ordeals, evacuees from Yemen have narrated their tales of horror during their stay in that war-torn country.
They climbed onto the roof of a Mumbai theatre to launch the song Thumkeshwari from their film Bhediya.
Kartik Aaryan's Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 is NOT a remake of Akshay Kumar's original horror comedy.
On Tuesday, Taliban terrorists barged into Army Public School in Peshawar and began firing on all present there. They took no hostages, did not discriminate between the young and old and killed as many as they could. They killed 132 children and nine others during their eight-hour rampage. Some students who were lucky enough to escape recount their horror and the massacre that unfolded right in front of them. These are some their tales:
"Public outcry will not affect our judicial decisions," the Supreme Court asserted on Tuesday, as it began weighing the legality of the remission granted to all the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The 184 passengers on board the Air India Express plane from Dubai that crashed on Friday evening had waited a long time to get tickets on the repatriation flight, part of the Centre's Vande Bharat Mission to bring back Indians stranded abroad in the coronavirus pandemic. For some, the homecoming never happened. 18 people were killed, including the two pilots.
Any aware viewer, who might wander into the film, will be repulsed by this unabashed spewing of communal hatred, feels Deepa Gahlot.
The stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar sighted on Tuesday.
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