Tikku Murder

At least 11 people died in police firing in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday after thousands of people, demanding permanent closure of a copper smelting plant in the port city of Tuticorin, went on a rampage. People have been protesting against the Sterlite plant for more than three months, blaming it for polluting groundwater. The protests intensified after ...

Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president who has been the target of the BJP's stinging barbs, today gave it back to his counterpart from the BJP, Amit Shah. Mr Gandhi brushed aside a question on Amit Shah, underlining that he had faced a murder charge and didn't really have much of credibility with people.

The hotel owner charged with murder of a government official in Himachal Pradesh's Kasauli, after initial attempts to block the demolition team by threatening suicide, had deployed his workers too for the job. But after the lunch break, Shail Bala entered the guest house along with a forest ranger and labourer without informing her team leader.

Sanji Ram, the main accused in the rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl in Kathua told the Supreme Court that he was innocent and the probe should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, to get the real culprits.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

In a move to cap the spiralling public anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said such incidents could not be part of any civilised society and promised to make sure that the culprits do not get away. "As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it (rapes)," PM Modi said of the crimes that have jolt...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

An attempt by the Darbhanga administration to link the beheading of a 70-year-old man to a property dispute is incorrect, Nityanand Rai, the Bihar BJP chief Nityanand Rai said on Saturday, contradicting the claims of the local police and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

Journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder investigation will be wrapped up soon, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said on Wednesday days after a special team questioned a man accused of selling firearms.

A special police team probing journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder on Friday took a man into custody for questioning, nearly a fortnight after his arrest on a charge of possessing a pistol and live bullets in Karnataka capital Bengaluru.

Three men controversially let off on bail by the Mumbai High Court last year have been ordered back to jail. The Supreme Court has cancelled last year's high court order that observed the three men facing charges of beating a Muslim man to death in 2014, "were provoked" to kill a Muslim man "in the name of religion".

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

A folk singer in Haryana, missing since last weekend, was found on Thursday with her throat slit in the fields of Rohtak district's Baniyani, which happens to be the native village of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, whose government is under intense pressure over recent rapes and murders in the state.

Shyamvar Rai, the former driver of Indrani Mukerjea, told a court today that she had spoken to her husband during a recce of the spot in a forest near Mumbai where Sheena Bora's body was later dumped, according to news agency ANI. The driver's statement backs up the Central Bureau of Investigation on its allegation that the former media tycoon was ...

At least 11 people died in police firing in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday after thousands of people, demanding permanent closure of a copper smelting plant in the port city of Tuticorin, went on a rampage. People have been protesting against the Sterlite plant for more than three months, blaming it for polluting groundwater. The protests intensified after ...

Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president who has been the target of the BJP's stinging barbs, today gave it back to his counterpart from the BJP, Amit Shah. Mr Gandhi brushed aside a question on Amit Shah, underlining that he had faced a murder charge and didn't really have much of credibility with people.

The hotel owner charged with murder of a government official in Himachal Pradesh's Kasauli, after initial attempts to block the demolition team by threatening suicide, had deployed his workers too for the job. But after the lunch break, Shail Bala entered the guest house along with a forest ranger and labourer without informing her team leader.

Sanji Ram, the main accused in the rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl in Kathua told the Supreme Court that he was innocent and the probe should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, to get the real culprits.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

In a move to cap the spiralling public anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said such incidents could not be part of any civilised society and promised to make sure that the culprits do not get away. "As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it (rapes)," PM Modi said of the crimes that have jolt...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

An attempt by the Darbhanga administration to link the beheading of a 70-year-old man to a property dispute is incorrect, Nityanand Rai, the Bihar BJP chief Nityanand Rai said on Saturday, contradicting the claims of the local police and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

Journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder investigation will be wrapped up soon, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said on Wednesday days after a special team questioned a man accused of selling firearms.

A special police team probing journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder on Friday took a man into custody for questioning, nearly a fortnight after his arrest on a charge of possessing a pistol and live bullets in Karnataka capital Bengaluru.

Three men controversially let off on bail by the Mumbai High Court last year have been ordered back to jail. The Supreme Court has cancelled last year's high court order that observed the three men facing charges of beating a Muslim man to death in 2014, "were provoked" to kill a Muslim man "in the name of religion".

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

A folk singer in Haryana, missing since last weekend, was found on Thursday with her throat slit in the fields of Rohtak district's Baniyani, which happens to be the native village of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, whose government is under intense pressure over recent rapes and murders in the state.

Shyamvar Rai, the former driver of Indrani Mukerjea, told a court today that she had spoken to her husband during a recce of the spot in a forest near Mumbai where Sheena Bora's body was later dumped, according to news agency ANI. The driver's statement backs up the Central Bureau of Investigation on its allegation that the former media tycoon was ...