The Centre and the Delhi government challenged the trial court's January 31 order staying 'till further orders' the execution of all the four convicts in the case. The parents of the victim urged the court to expeditiously decide the Centre's plea and were assured by the judge that the order would be passed at the earliest.
Chhattisgarh was in news in 2012 mostly for wrong reasons as it witnessed the abduction of an IAS officer and the killing of his two bodyguards, the gunning down of 19 suspected Maoists in an encounter and irregularities in coal mining but students from Naxal-hit areas brought glory with their commendable performances.
The government and the Opposition have agreed to debate the JNU controversy in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Day 2 of Parliament's Budget session. At a meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to BJP lawmakers was -- "debate aggressively".
The government and the Opposition have agreed to debate the JNU controversy in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Day 2 of Parliament's Budget session. At a meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to BJP lawmakers was -- "debate aggressively".
Yesterday, we invited our readers to comment on ragging in colleges and share their experiences. Here are a few interesting -- and shocking -- responses.
Experts say one in every four mental health problems is due to depression and anxiety at the workplace.
The four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case spent a restless and sleepless night. They were asked to take a bath but none of them did. All of them were served their last meal but one of them refused breakfast before being taken to the gallows, an official said.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan is expected to deliver its judgment on the pleas of Mukesh, 29, Pawan Gupta, 22, and Vinay Sharma, 23.
The Jamatul Ahrar, a splinter group of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that it was carried out to avenge the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, killer of Taseer.
The Indian American community and those in the mainstream reacted differently to the judge's 30-day sentencing Monday of former Rutgers University student, convicted on webcam spying of his roommate Tyler Clement's gay sexual encounters. Suman Mozumder reports
Pankaj, a class eight student of Maswanpur area, committed suicide on Monday evening after watching a scene in a TV serial, police said.
After each massacre, survivors and witnesses have echoed the words "no more" - yet mass shootings have continued to plague the United States. In fact, shootings only have continued to increase over the past few years. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida is the 18th attack in a school in 2018 alone. Below are some of the worst US school shootings in the last 20 years.
India has strongly condemned the barbaric attack on a school in Peshawar in which at least 124 children were killed, saying there is never a justification for terrorism.
Union minister Satya Pal Singh on Wednesday called for inculcating scientific temper and curiosity among students.
The brutal Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan assault has claimed 141 lives, including 132 school children, six terrorists and three armymen.
Jeannette Marsh, a first-year from IIM-K shares her first bungee jumping experience.
Kazmierczak shot dead five students, mostly women, and injured 23 others in Northern Illinois University before turning the weapon on himself on the Valentine's Day, but no Indian casualty has been reported. A senior Indian Embassy official told PTI that both the Mission in Washington and the Consulate in Chicago were following the tragic incident closely. "At this time, there have been no reports of any Indian students killed or seriously injured," the official said.
First Assistant Prosecutor Julia McClure submitted a 14-page memorandum on Thursday to Judge Glenn Berman in Middlesex County courthouse, New Brunswick, saying Dharun Ravi, should be given a "period of imprisonment which is in proportion to the multiple crimes he committed" and for which he was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by the jury in March.
Barely a week after an MBA student from Warangal in Andhra Pradesh ended his life over separate Telangana state, a 23-year-old youth from the district has allegedly committed suicide over "inaction" on part of politicians from the region in pursuing the cause, sources said on Sunday.
Jail officials said that after the death warrants were issued, the convicts were asked when they would like to meet their respective families for the last time, but none of them has responded yet. They are scheduled to be hanged on February 1.
Jurors deciding the fate of India-born Rutgers student Dharun Ravi accused of spying on his gay roommate, who later committed suicide, finished the second day of their deliberations without reaching a verdict.
Dharun Ravi, the 20-year-old former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to record his roommate's sexual encounters, was a 'kid who had an experience that he wasn't ready for', his lead attorney Steven Altman told the jury in a New Brunswick, NJ courtroom on Tuesday. Arthur J Pais reports
A key witness in the trial of Dharun Ravi accused of spying on his roommate's homosexual tryst has testified that the Indian-origin student had sent her text messages to know what she was telling investigators about the case.
Indian student Dharun Ravi, convicted of spying on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, has publicly apologised for the first time for his "insensitive and immature" actions, saying he will surrender this week to begin his month long jail term.
Judge Glenn Berman of State Superior Court also sentenced Ravi to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service and ordered him to pay $10,000 to a group that helps victims of bias crimes.
In the Shahid Kapoor starrer Kabir Singh, a remake of Telugu superhit Arjun Reddy, a medical student's drinking problem encourages toxic behaviour and romantic distress.
The government will stand guarantor for loans to be disbursed to youth from the community.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday extended its support to a protest organised by Delhi University teachers, employees and students' unions over police inaction into allegations of sexual harassment against a Delhi University college principal by a sacked employee who later committed suicide.
Soon after a Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi committed suicide jumping off from a bridge in New York in September 2010, the long time gay activist William Dobbs, who has been featured in several publications including The New York Times wrote a letter to The Chronicle of Higher Learning. Rediff.com's Arthur J Pais talks to him
The death toll in the gruesome suicide attack on a historic church in this northwestern Pakistani city on Monday rose to 83 after five persons succumbed to their injuries.
'You tell me without support, can the ABVP do these things? They are only doing these things because the central government is supporting them.'
The pleas came up for hearing before a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan which heard the submissions of advocate Nishant R Katneshwarkar, who appeared for one of the petitioners and claimed that Kamra had posted several tweets scandalous to the judiciary.
Driven from its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State is down but not out. Where once they confronted armies, the extremist Islamist group's adherents have now staged hit-and-run raids and suicide attacks. In some cases, the group has claimed responsibility for atrocities, including the bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed at least 253 people. Its involvement is not always proven, but even if the link is ideological rather than operational, Islamic State still poses a security threat in many countries.
The Congress chief once again claimed that while China gave jobs to 50,000 people in 24 hours, India gave employment to only 450 people in the said period.
An Indian-origin boy convicted of a hate crime for spying on his gay roommate, who later committed suicide, has said he acted in an immature manner when he watched the fellow student's sexual encounter with another man on a webcam, but insisted that he had not intimidated him. Dharun Ravi, 20, had been found guilty by a jury of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy charges after a three-week long trial. He could face up to 10 years in prison and eventual deportation.
"Please do not call my son a terrorist," says JNUSU President Kanhaiya's mother.
Disability activist Virali Modi recounts her life's most challenging moments and how she turned adversities in her favour.
'Like one-one drop of water fills earthen pots and one-one brick helps to construct a house, donation of Rs 1 to my campaign fund will help me fight to take the voices of marginalised and exploited people to Parliament.'
'Namaste Telangana,' credited to be the first Telugu newspaper of Telangana region, has hit the stands all over the region on Monday with a record initial print run of 750,000.
Jaipur's first IIT-JEE topper Aman Bansal shares his success mantra.
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