Homicide unit (in-charge) Inspector Ilyas Haider who was doing ground investigation into the murder case will be replaced by woman Inspector Attiya Jaffari.
The files were handed over by the PMO to the National Archives of India for 'further processing, preservation and digitisation'.
'If prices of everyday consumption don't come down, employment doesn't pick up, 2020 will not be a happy year for anyone but the super rich,' notes Sherna Gandhy.
Amongst the many characters in the Mahabharata, the impetuous Ashwathama comes across as a warrior lacking maturity and forethought.
Many Indians live under a comfortable, though wrong notion, that education is not a 'commercial' service and cannot be regulated.
Chiman Rai, 69, faces the death penalty for allegedly paying two men $10,000 to kill Sparkle Michelle Rai, an African American, in April 2000 after her marriage to his son Rajeev Rai alias Ricky, with whom she had a infant daughter. The 22-year-old was found strangled and stabbed more than a dozen times at the couple's apartment.
An Indian professor-turned-hotelier, charged with ordering the contract killing of his African-American daughter-in-law because she was not an Indian, faces the death penalty as his trial opens on Monday.Chiman Rai, 69, allegedly hired two hit men for US$ 10,000 to kill 22-year-old Sparkle Michelle Rai in April 2000 as he did not approve of her marriage to his son Rajeev Rai alias Ricky.Sparkle, also a former employee of Chiman, was found strangled and stabbed to death.
"We find that there has been undue and unexplained delay by both the state and Central government in processing the mercy petitions," the court said.
The bill passed on Thursday ensures the killers will get a mandatory life sentence.
The Indian captain said more practice and a better wicket at Sydney would ensure his batsmen produced the innings they are capable of.
In a time of crisis like this, a government needs its people and politics united. A nation of India's size and diversity can't fight a stronger rival with fraying social cohesion, observes Shekhar Gupta.
As many as 26 of 50 urban hubs across the country have shown a moderate upturn in housing prices between December 2016 and March 2017
Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer almost certainly died of heart failure, Jamaica police said on Wednesday, a day after ending a high-profile murder investigation into his March death.
The Jamaican police accepted that these findings have closed its investigation into the death of Bob Woolmer.
Cops said that 'whatever has been alleged by his (Kanhaiya's) friend, in our inquiry hasn't been found to be true'.
Only close relatives attended the funeral in Observatory, near the family's Pinelands home outside Cape Town.
A special women's court in Mumbai on Tuesday convicted a 29-year-old driver for the rape and murder of Esther Anuhya, an Andhra Pradesh-based woman software engineer in suburban Kurla here last year.
"We wanted to question them in the jail and we have got permission," a CBI official said.
GST, a much needed reform that widens the tax net, promises to strangle many legitimate businesses while they wait for the tax administration and systems to catch up, says Rahul Jacob.
The duo has been arrested on charges of abducting and killing Pawan Kumar, more than three weeks after the 14-year-old went missing from his house in Old Kondli locality, triggering a major search.
Reports said that Aslam had received a phone call from the alleged kidnappers demanding a ransom of Rs 2 crore.
Peter, 59, husband of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, was arrested on November 19 for his alleged role in the murder case and was in CBI custody for two weeks following which he was granted judicial remand.
Cops say NRI confesses to murdering wife. Lawyer says he was coerced into making the confession.
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday remanded former media baron Peter Mukerjea in judicial custody till December 14 in the Sheena Bora murder case.
Gill Woolmer also rubbished the notion that her husband was about to blow the whistle on match-fixing.
The temple murder has shocked the local Indian community.
The nation ranked 138 among 180 countries, according to the annual World Press Freedom Index report.
The spotlight had fallen on Maria and his crack team after the CBI arrested media baron Peter Mukherjea last year. There were allegations that Maria had not probed the property angle in the case and not quizzed Mukherjea.
Authorities in Turkey are still searching for Khashoggi's remains. Last week, the Turkish chief prosecutor's office said the 60-year-old's body was dismembered after he was strangled, while the Washington Post reported investigators were looking into the theory that the body was dissolved in acid.
Russia on Tuesday promised to look into India's request to share any information it has on the seven-decade-old mystery surrounding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Vasudevan then committed suicide at around 7 am on Monday by jumping out of their flat's window, the police official was quoted as saying in the Gulf News daily.
The first leg of the match between Delhi and Punjab ended in a disappointing 14-run defeat for the former, but Badree said his team will start with a clean slate.
The killer had first strangled the 40-year-old official, hacked his forehead with a sharp object and then thrust a knife on the neck.
The 35-year-old has been bamboozling batsmen for 15 years now on the international scene and yet still somehow retains the element of surprise.
Less than three months ago, Aaron Finch, alarmingly down on form and confidence, actually feared he might not be chosen for the Australian squad that he was due to lead. Now, he's atop the scoring charts at the World Cup.
Stuart Clark is set to make his international debut on Friday.
'How did we get here?' 'How did utility morph into addiction?' 'Is this what Graham Bell intended?' asks Veenu Sandhu.
The Bank Nifty is high beta anyhow and it could move the broader market.
Carrie Fisher, who made Star Wars character Princess Leia so popular, passed into the ages on December 28
Are politicians over-protected? Your say
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances