Era of police killing students back: Congress
by IANS
After the death of a student activist allegedly due to a police baton charge, the Congress on Wednesday said the era of students getting killed by police was back to haunt West Bengal. ...  
05:31 PM, Apr 03, 2013

Kolkata live: SFI activist's body taken to crematorium for last rites One person has been arrested in connection with the death of Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata. The person arrested is Raju Das, the driver of the bus which was used to take the demonstrators to the prison by the police. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met other activists injured in the police crackdown. ...  
05:24 PM, Apr 03, 2013

SFI activist death: Protests break out in Chennai, Delhi Protesters took to the streets in New Delhi and Chennai after a Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta was killed in Kolkata allegedly by the police during a crackdown in the city on Wednesday. The police tried to stop the demonstrators as they chanted slogans and marched with Gupta's posters. ...  
05:05 PM, Apr 03, 2013

Student's death was police handiwork, not govt's: Sunanda K Datta-Ray The death of a 23-year-old SFI activist, Sudipto Gupta, has sparked a row in Kolkata. Sudipto was fatally injured allegedly by the police in a crackdown on Tuesday. The police has claimed he fell off a bus but his fellow activists allege that the police hit him on the head in the bus. Senior journalist and columnist Sunanda K Datta-Ray joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. ...  
05:02 PM, Apr 03, 2013

SFI activist death: Don't politicise a tragedy, says O'Brien

Under pressure from opposition after the death of a Students federation of India activist, Sudipto Gupta, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed the episode as "unfortunate". "We should not politicise a tragedy. Chief Minister visited the family of the deceased and offered her condolences. It shows what she is made up of," said TMC leader Derek O'Brien. ...
04:46 PM, Apr 03, 2013

Mamata calls SFI activist's death unfortunate Under pressure from opposition after the death of a Students federation of India activist, Sudipto Gupta, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday termed the episode as "unfortunate", but evaded a question on whether a judicial probe would be ordered as demanded by the CPI-M. "Any death is unfortunate. This is also unfortunate. I will not say anything more than this," Mamata told reporters outside the state-run SSKM hospital...  
03:15 PM, Apr 03, 2013

SFI activist's death in Kolkata: Left targets Mamata There have been massive protests over the death of 23-year-old Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata. Not just in Kolkata, protests are also being staged in Chennai by SFI activists. The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has also come under attack from the protesters as well as the Left Front. ...  
01:17 PM, Apr 03, 2013

SFI activist's death in Kolkata: One person arrested One person has been arrested in connection with the death of Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata. The person arrested is Raju Das, the driver of the bus which was used to take the demonstrators to the prison by the police. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met other activists injured in the police crackdown. ...  
12:23 PM, Apr 03, 2013

Watch: Woman miraculously saved from a speeding train in Brazil In a miraculous escape, a woman was saved from a speeding train within a split-second in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The woman had allegedly leapt onto the tracks after her cellphone fell. ...  
07:43 AM, Apr 03, 2013

Indian prisoner's death: No word from Pak on autopsy report There has been another India-Pakistan confrontation, this time over the death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh. Government sources have told CNN-IBN that India has not received any reply from Pakistan on why it took two months to conduct Chamel Singh's autopsy. ...  
03:08 PM, Apr 01, 2013

Lucknow: Teenaged jilted lover stabs woman to death A 22-year-old woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her teenaged jilted lover and his aides in Mahanagar area, police said. ...  
02:05 PM, Apr 01, 2013

Two students beaten to death by staffer in Chinese school Two primary school boys were allegedly beaten to death by a staffer in southern China, in the latest case of violent attacks against children in the country. ...  
07:17 PM, Mar 29, 2013

Man arrested for hacking wife, two children to death Police arrested a man on Thursday for hacking his wife and two children to death in Garbada area of the district. ...  
04:07 AM, Mar 29, 2013

PM declines to comment on Italian marines issue Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday declined to comment on the case of two Italian marines and the issue of delays in setting up a special court to try them on charges of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast. ...  
11:31 PM, Mar 28, 2013

I saw prison officials beat Chamel Singh to death: Eyewitness After Indian prisoner Chamel Singh's brutal death in a Lahore jail, an eyewitness has come out and confirmed that Singh was indeed beaten to death by jail authorities. The ex-inmate, Tehsin Khan, who is a lawyer, was in the same jail when Chamel Singh was brutalized and killed. ...  
08:27 PM, Mar 28, 2013

Indian prisoner's death: India raises the issue again, Pakistan says a probe is already on

An eyewitness tells CNN-IBN, prisoner Chamel Singh was beaten to death by prison guards in Lahore. The Foreign Ministry raises the issue again and Pakistan says a probe is already on. ...
08:00 PM, Mar 28, 2013

ATS DCP's wife says he accidentally pulled the trigger In a twist, the widow of the senior police official with Maharashtra ATS has claimed that her husband did not commit suicide, but he accidentally triggered the firearm that led to his death, police said on Thursday. ...  
03:39 PM, Mar 28, 2013

Protests in J&K against torture, death of Indian prisoner in Pak The Bharatiya Janata Party and Panther's Party MLAs held protests at the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Thursday against the alleged torture and death of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh in Pakistan. ...  
03:28 PM, Mar 28, 2013

Myanmar communal riot: Death toll rises to 40
by IANS
The death toll in a communal riot in Myanmar has risen to 40, according to an official media report Tuesday. The toll rose from 32 as eight more bodies were found when troops cleared the wreckage in the wake of the riot which lasted three days in Meikhtila from March 20, leaving 9,600 people homeless. ...  
03:40 PM, Mar 26, 2013

Hoax call death: Court to take up Jacintha suicide case Key findings are expected to be presented at the Westminster Coroner's court for the first time in the Indian nurse suicide case. Jacintha Saldanha killed herself in December 2012, days after transferring a prank call to a hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated. ...  
12:18 PM, Mar 26, 2013