An Indian-origin mediaperson was shot dead in a plush locality of Nepal's Janakpur town, bordering India, on Monday, a month after media tycoon Jamim Shah was killed in broad daylight.
A farmer was on Friday shot dead in Sipahijala district of Tripura along the Indo-Bangla border by Border Guards of Bangaldesh, police said.
Dasari Gopikrishna hailed from the Yajali village of the Bapatla district in Andhra Pradesh and came to the US only eight months ago.
A 13-year old boy was shot dead by the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in an alleged case of mistaken identity in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, official sources said in Guwahati.
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Vaiko on Wednesday alleged that the Libyan army had shot dead an Indian worker there and the authorities of the violence-torn country falsely claimed it to be a death in a road accident.Vaiko said 42-year-old Murugiah from Tirunelveli district was shot dead by the Libyan Army after it ordered the workers to vacate their place of accommodation. "On February 22, they were forced to vacate the place and the army opened fire on them."
Radhika Tomar was attacked by an unidentified man near a foot-over-bridge outside Ramlal Anand College in Dhaula Kuan's Shantiniketan area at around 10:20 am, a senior official said. The victim resided in Naraina area.
Arun Kumar Narote, who hails from Hyderabad was gunned down on Monday at a grocery store at Bridgeport in Connecticut where he was working as a part-time employee. The incident happened around 9:30 pm (local time).
Police, assisted by security forces, immediately sealed the area and a hunt has been launched to nab the militants involved in the killing, the sources said.
A 40-year-old Hindu man, Sarat Chakraborty Mani, was killed on Monday night in Narsingdi, near Dhaka, after being attacked with sharp weapons by unidentified assailants, reported Bangladesh registered newspaper Weeklyblitz.
A 28-year-old Indian-American was shot dead in a park in Houston by suspected robbers.
Pappu Khan was known for his muscle power and faced over dozen serious criminal charges.
A migrant worker from Bihar was shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district, the latest in a series of targeted killings, officials said on Friday.
The armed infiltrators were shot dead close to the Attari front around 2.30 am, official sources said.
The unidentified shooter managed to escape from the spot.
Abdul Gani Dar was shot at three times from a close range with an AK assault rifle, he said, adding two bullets hit him in the chest and one in the shoulder.
Trump claims the United States is performing exceptionally well in its ongoing conflict with Iran, citing weakened Iranian military capabilities and a strong US position.
'I am quite impulsive when making a movie. That is the reason I need to stop sometimes, probably pause.'
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was captured alive and 'tortured' by the army before being shot dead in northern Wanni, a Jaffna-based human rights group has alleged in a report that has been dismissed as 'ridiculous' by the Sri Lankan government and military.
This is the second such incident along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu division in two days.
According to local media reports, Christopher was fatally shot and was hit in the abdomen by a suspect.
These were the first incidents in 2023 where Pakistani intruders were killed at the 2,289 km-long border that runs along Jammu, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Punjab on India's western flank.
Cricketer Gagandeep Singh, who represented India in an under-19 series in Australia, was shot dead after being caught in a row between a shopkeeper and a customer in Meerut, police said on Saturday. Singh was in the city to play the G K Naidu tournament.
Cricketer Gagandeep Singh, who represented India in an under-19 series in Australia, was shot dead after being caught in a row between a shopkeeper and a customer in Meerut, police said on Saturday. Singh was in the city to play the G K Naidu tournament.
Suspected militants on Friday shot dead two persons, including a police officer, in separate incidents in Pulwama district of south Kashmir.
Sub-divisional police officer Chingtham Anand, a resident of Imphal's Haobam Marak locality, was killed in a sniper attack while he was on duty overseeing the cleaning of the grounds of Eastern Shine School for construction of a helipad jointly by the police and BSF, officials said.
Three Hindi-speaking traders were shot dead by suspected KLNLF militants in Central Assam's Nagaon district early Monday morning, police said.
Three prisoners, including a member of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari's gang, were shot dead inside the Chitrakoot district jail on Friday after which the Uttar Pradesh government suspended two jail officials, police said.
In an incident that could snowball into a major issue during elections, the editor of a weekly newspaper was shot dead in Valsad district in south Gujarat on Tuesday night.Ashok Shah was the editor of Dakshin Gujarat Vartman weekly from Valsad. Influential persons are said to be involved in the murder. Initial reports say the murder is the fall-out of a land dispute.
Bangladesh police have formally charged 17 people in connection with the murder of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi, alleging it was an act of political vengeance orchestrated by the Awami League.
New Zealand police shot dead n 'ISIS-inspired lone wolf' after a supermarket terror attack left six people in hospital in Auckland.
At least four Hindi-speaking people were shot dead and two others injured by militants from the banned outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam on Tuesday.Heavily-armed NDFB ultras fired from AK-47 rifles on a group of people near Naharani tea estate at Rangapara in central Assam's Sonitput district at 9.30 am, killing the four, police said. Besides two women, a man and a boy from the same family were shot dead by the militants.
A local Samajwadi Party leader was shot dead on Monday in Bamhetta village of Ghaziabad district.
Among very few woman editors in Kannada journalism, she was a fierce activist, who openly expressed her pro-Naxal and Leftist views.
The attack took place when Pankaj Kumar was going for his morning walk to a park in Jakkanpur locality in Patna.
Police arrested Jermaine Canada, 27, who had a lengthy criminal record, within hours of the killing of Inderjit Jassal but the motive behind the murder was not immediately clear.
On specific information, police and the 10 Rashtriya Rifle troops launched an operation in Ghatt area of Doda district. A gun battle took place between hiding militants and security forces, Senior Superintendent of Police, Doda, Manohar Singh said.
Violence erupted in Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh after former Member of Legislative Assembly and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Sarvesh Singh Seepu and another person was shot dead by unidentified assailants.
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