Chief Butcher

Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to uphold former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's genocide conviction, saying he personally oversaw the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

The Congress and JD(S) today hit out at the BJP and the ''BJP-backed Governor'' for allowing BS Yediyurappa to form the government in Karnataka through "unconstitutional means", alleging that democracy was being "butchered" in the state.

Weeks have passed since a bull stormed into a rally of the opposition alliance in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj, but the dust kicked up by the incident is yet to settle down. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today remarked that the animal had gone there to teach a lesson to the "friends of butchers", obliquely alleging that opposition parties in the state ...

Dusko Mladic points to the portrait on his wall of his beloved cousin Ratko, the wartime Bosnian Serb army chief, who will next week learn if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Meat sellers in state capital Lucknow and in many other districts of Uttar Pradesh, including big cities like Allahabad, have announced an indefinite strike from today against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's crackdown on slaughterhouses. The Chief Minister has underscored that his order of closure applies only to illegal slaughterhouses and abatto...

Nigerian police on Tuesday said they had arrested a senior Boko Haram Islamist commander known as "Chief Butcher" during a raid on an insurgent camp in the restive northeast.

A handful of recent shock departures by 50-something chief executives at European blue chip companies -- none of them under any obvious pressure to quit -- suggest some of his peers either lack that vigour, or want to channel it elsewhere.

Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, who headed the banned, upper caste militia Ranvir Sena in Bihar, was shot dead on Friday morning by unidentified people in Arrah in the state's Bhojpur district. A violent backlash that began in this part of north-western Bihar has now spread to other parts of the state. Mr Mukhiya's angry supporters have vandalized public prop...

Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, who headed the banned, upper caste militia Ranvir Sena, was shot dead on Friday morning by unidentified people at his village in Bihar's Bhojpur district. Buses and offices have been set on fire by supporters of the Ranvir Sena. Curfew has been declared in the town of Arrah.

It's an old ghost come back to haunt. Dozens of Sikh protesters today picketed Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's house in the Capital protesting that the death sentence awarded to a 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict had been commuted to a life sentence.

Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to uphold former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's genocide conviction, saying he personally oversaw the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

The Congress and JD(S) today hit out at the BJP and the ''BJP-backed Governor'' for allowing BS Yediyurappa to form the government in Karnataka through "unconstitutional means", alleging that democracy was being "butchered" in the state.

Weeks have passed since a bull stormed into a rally of the opposition alliance in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj, but the dust kicked up by the incident is yet to settle down. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today remarked that the animal had gone there to teach a lesson to the "friends of butchers", obliquely alleging that opposition parties in the state ...

Dusko Mladic points to the portrait on his wall of his beloved cousin Ratko, the wartime Bosnian Serb army chief, who will next week learn if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Meat sellers in state capital Lucknow and in many other districts of Uttar Pradesh, including big cities like Allahabad, have announced an indefinite strike from today against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's crackdown on slaughterhouses. The Chief Minister has underscored that his order of closure applies only to illegal slaughterhouses and abatto...

Nigerian police on Tuesday said they had arrested a senior Boko Haram Islamist commander known as "Chief Butcher" during a raid on an insurgent camp in the restive northeast.

A handful of recent shock departures by 50-something chief executives at European blue chip companies -- none of them under any obvious pressure to quit -- suggest some of his peers either lack that vigour, or want to channel it elsewhere.

Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, who headed the banned, upper caste militia Ranvir Sena in Bihar, was shot dead on Friday morning by unidentified people in Arrah in the state's Bhojpur district. A violent backlash that began in this part of north-western Bihar has now spread to other parts of the state. Mr Mukhiya's angry supporters have vandalized public prop...

Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, who headed the banned, upper caste militia Ranvir Sena, was shot dead on Friday morning by unidentified people at his village in Bihar's Bhojpur district. Buses and offices have been set on fire by supporters of the Ranvir Sena. Curfew has been declared in the town of Arrah.

It's an old ghost come back to haunt. Dozens of Sikh protesters today picketed Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's house in the Capital protesting that the death sentence awarded to a 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict had been commuted to a life sentence.