Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy has written to the Prime Minister asking for the setting up of a special fast track court in Kollam to try the two Italian marines who are charged with the murder of two Kerala fishermen. ...
09:34 AM, Mar 24, 2013
New Delhi: The two Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, charged with the murder of two Kerala fishermen, may be back in the country, but the drama is far from over. Italy, who agreed to send back the marines, reversing its earlier decision, still maintains they must be tried in Rome. "We maintain our position and I would like to restate it, while respecting the Supreme Court we're in...
07:27 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Staffan de Mistura escorted back the two marines to India on Friday. He was speaking to Karan Thapar. ...
08:51 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday asked the Centre to set up the special court at Kollam district to conduct the trial of the two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chandy demanded that the Sessions court at Kollam be designated as the special court. He demanded that the trial be held at Kollam itself since...
08:34 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Italian government's decision to send back two of its marines charged with the killing of two Kerala fishermen seemed to signal the end of the diplomatic standoff between India and Italy over the issue. However, it is still not clear what made the Italian government change its stand. ...
08:25 AM, Mar 23, 2013
A decision to return two Italian marines accused of murdering fishermen to stand trial in India stirred anger in Italy on Friday and calls for Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi to resign. Mario Monti's caretaker government on Thursday reversed a March 11, 2013 decision not to send the marines back from a home visit after Rome secured a promise from New Delhi that the two would not face the death penalty...
04:20 AM, Mar 23, 2013
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11:45 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The two Italian marines, facing trial in the fishermen killings case, returned to India on Friday. ...
11:25 PM, Mar 22, 2013
A local court on Friday posted to March 27 hearing of the National Anthem case against Minister of state for HRD Shashi Tharoor. The petitioner Joy Kaitharath made a submission in the court that he did not want to continue with the case. ...
10:03 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The Italian marines, facing trial for shooting dead two Indian fishermen in February 2012, returned on Friday. ...
08:07 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Italian marines, Massimiliano Lattore and Salvatore Girone, charged with killing of two Kerala fishermen, reached Delhi on Friday evening to face murder trial in the case. While External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said there was no "deal" between India and Italy on the issue, he assured Rome that the marines won't be arrested or given death sentence in the case. ...
06:55 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Insisting the government had "no deal" with Italy on the marines' issue, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said that India kept channel of communication opened despite pressure from public. "We always kept alive the hope that marines would return," said the Union Minister, while addressing a press conference in New Delhi. ...
05:49 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Sanjay Hegde, Senior SC lawyer joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on Rome's decision to send the undertrial Italian marines back to India. ...
03:04 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The two Italian marines, Massimiliano Lattore and Salvatore Girone, charged with killing two Indian fishermen are set to return to India. While India has called it a diplomatic victory, it has also assured Italy that the marines will not be arrested on their return and neither will they face death penalty as the case is not a rarest of rare case. ...
02:35 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Reacting to Italy's decision to send back the marines, the Bharatiya Janata Party said it was a result of combined efforts of the Opposition, the government and the Supreme Court. "Must say the combined effort of the Opposition to persuade the government to carry on its diplomacy seems to have worked. The tough stand taken by the Supreme Court also had its impact," BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said. ...
01:41 PM, Mar 22, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in his statement in Parliament said the Italian marines will not get death sentence as the Indian fishermen killings case was not a rarest of rare case. He also said they won't be arrested if they return before the apex court's deadline. ...
12:52 PM, Mar 22, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said that diplomacy is at work resulting in Italy's decision to send back two marines charged in the fishermen killing case and parried questions on Italian media reports that Congress President Sonia Gandhi influenced that government's decision. ...
11:26 AM, Mar 22, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said that the Italian marines charged with the murders of two Indian fishermen will face trial as usual in India and that the law won't change. This comes even as the Italian foreign office said that they have been assured there will be no death penalty for the marines. Sources also say there is a possibility that the marines could serve their prison term ...
11:02 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Attorney General GE Vahanvati has said that the Italian marines charged with killing two Indian fishermen will not be arrested immediately on their return to India on Friday. Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said that the marines will face trial as usual in India and that the law won't change. This comes even as the Italian foreign office said that they have been assured there will be no...
10:05 AM, Mar 22, 2013
A day after Italy agreed to send its marines back to India to face trial in the fishermen killings case, Italian ambassador Daniel Mancini is likely to move the Supreme Court on Friday requesting it to lift the Indian government's restraining order on his travel. ...
08:44 AM, Mar 22, 2013
