Politics Of Murder

Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was buried on Sunday night with the state honours in the presence of a huge crowd, including political leaders, amid tight security

Amid the massive row over the serious allegations by the parents of the Kolkata doctor, who was raped and murdered at a state-run hospital, the Trinamool Congress today blamed "vulture politics" by the Opposition

BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday said incidents of crime against women were "extremely worrying", and asked political parties to rise above party politics and take "strict steps" to prevent them.

The German Federal Court upheld a 99-year-old woman's conviction for accessory to murder over her role as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in the last two years of World War Two.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has flagged a fake letter written by a fictitious senior officer alleging political interference in the probe into the rape and murder case of a junior doctor in a Kolkata medical college and hospital.

The rape-murder of the young doctor in Kolkata that has unleashed a storm across the nation, is now a full-blown political controversy, with Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress going toe-to-toe with the former chief of the National Women's Commission.

"This is an absolutely unacceptable political murder, and it will lead to further escalation of tensions," RIA cited Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying.

Two political workers from Tamil Nadu have been murdered in less than 24 hours -- one of them in neighbouring Puducherry.

Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, has been described as a "psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life." Khalusha's horrific acts have come to light amidst political turmoil and a rising wave of gender-based violence in the country.

Observing that the country's judicial system often finds itself grappling with pervasive issues of prolonged delay and suspected political influence, the Supreme Court has revived the trial of Chhote Singh, former BSP MLA from Uttar Pradesh, in a thr

A functionary of Naam Thamizhar Katchi party (NTK) was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu's Madurai this morning. Balasubramanian, police said, was on a morning walk when he was targeted. Police denied it's a political murder, said it was a revenge attack

The Indian government will "naturally oppose any move giving political space to extremism and advocacy of violence", the Foreign Ministry said Friday after the Canadian parliament honoured the memory of a slain Khalistani terrorist.

Mexico's election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday's vote.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has lamented the sorry state of affairs in the country where political leaders like him languish in jail and said all that is left for the powerful military leadership was to "murder" him.

Mukhtar Ansari straddled the worlds of crime and politics in Uttar Pradesh. The gangster-politician was booked in 65 criminal cases ranging from murder to extortion and was elected an MLA five times on the tickets of different political parties.

Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was buried on Sunday night with the state honours in the presence of a huge crowd, including political leaders, amid tight security

Amid the massive row over the serious allegations by the parents of the Kolkata doctor, who was raped and murdered at a state-run hospital, the Trinamool Congress today blamed "vulture politics" by the Opposition

BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday said incidents of crime against women were "extremely worrying", and asked political parties to rise above party politics and take "strict steps" to prevent them.

The German Federal Court upheld a 99-year-old woman's conviction for accessory to murder over her role as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in the last two years of World War Two.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has flagged a fake letter written by a fictitious senior officer alleging political interference in the probe into the rape and murder case of a junior doctor in a Kolkata medical college and hospital.

The rape-murder of the young doctor in Kolkata that has unleashed a storm across the nation, is now a full-blown political controversy, with Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress going toe-to-toe with the former chief of the National Women's Commission.

"This is an absolutely unacceptable political murder, and it will lead to further escalation of tensions," RIA cited Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying.

Two political workers from Tamil Nadu have been murdered in less than 24 hours -- one of them in neighbouring Puducherry.

Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, has been described as a "psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life." Khalusha's horrific acts have come to light amidst political turmoil and a rising wave of gender-based violence in the country.

Observing that the country's judicial system often finds itself grappling with pervasive issues of prolonged delay and suspected political influence, the Supreme Court has revived the trial of Chhote Singh, former BSP MLA from Uttar Pradesh, in a thr

A functionary of Naam Thamizhar Katchi party (NTK) was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu's Madurai this morning. Balasubramanian, police said, was on a morning walk when he was targeted. Police denied it's a political murder, said it was a revenge attack

The Indian government will "naturally oppose any move giving political space to extremism and advocacy of violence", the Foreign Ministry said Friday after the Canadian parliament honoured the memory of a slain Khalistani terrorist.

Mexico's election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday's vote.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has lamented the sorry state of affairs in the country where political leaders like him languish in jail and said all that is left for the powerful military leadership was to "murder" him.

Mukhtar Ansari straddled the worlds of crime and politics in Uttar Pradesh. The gangster-politician was booked in 65 criminal cases ranging from murder to extortion and was elected an MLA five times on the tickets of different political parties.