Murder ruled out in Loitam death case, say sources

Murder ruled out in Loitam death case, say sources Bangalore: The mysterious death of Manipur student Richard Loitam continues to haunt the Bangalore rural district police as the medical report has said his death was not due to physical injuries. Sources said that the police will drop the murder charges and culpable homicide has been ruled out. Sources also added that the cause of death was undetermined. Richard, a second semester student of the Acharya NRV School of Architecture...
07:31 PM, May 17, 2012

Loitam's blood has no traces of drugs: Sources

Loitam's blood has no traces of drugs: Sources Bangalore: Manipur student Richard Loitam's death remains a mystery with the forensic report saying no traces of drugs have been found in his blood even as there is no clarity on whether wounds in the head led to his death. The forensic report of Loitam, who died under mysterious circumstances inside his hostel room in Bangalore, was submitted to Bangalore rural police on Thursday with sources telling CNN-IBN that the...
01:06 PM, May 03, 2012

Richard Loitam case: 2 students booked for murder

Richard Loitam case: 2 students booked for murder Bangalore: The Bangalore police have booked two students Syed Afzal Ali and Vishal Banerjee for the murder of Manipur boy Richard Loitam. However, the students will not be arrested now as the police were waiting for the forensic report. The police said that they would take action only after the forensic report was out. But both the students have been suspended from the college and the police have asked the...
05:35 PM, May 01, 2012
Students hold protest to demand justice for Manipur boy

Students hold protest to demand justice for Manipur boy

Hundreds rallied to demand justice for Richard Loitam, the student who died in a Bangalore college hostel after a brawl over watching an IPL match on television. ...
09:58 PM, Apr 29, 2012

Protests over Manipur boy's death in B'lore college

Protests over Manipur boy's death in B'lore college New Delhi/Bangalore: The death of a 19-year-old Manipuri boy under suspicious circumstances in his college hostel in Bangalore has sparked protests demanding justice for the student with his friends and family alleging that that he suffered fatal injuries in an assault by his seniors. In Delhi, Richard Loitam's family and friends assembled at Jantar Mantar, seeking justice for the architecture student. Richard died in a Banglaore college hostel after a...
08:01 PM, Apr 29, 2012

Killed for a remote: North East students to protest

Killed for a remote: North East students to protest Guwahati/Bangalore: The students from the North East are planning to hold silent protests across the country on Sunday to demand justice for Richard Loitam, a student of an architectural institute in Bangalore, who died after a bitter fight with his friends over a TV remote while an IPL match was on. Loitam reportedly died of a cerebral haemorrhage in his sleep. The haemorrhage was allegedly so massive that his pillow...
07:46 AM, Apr 29, 2012
FTN: Do North East students still feel alienated in the big cities?

FTN: Do North East students still feel alienated in the big cities?

Richard Loitam died of a cerebral haemorrhage in his sleep hours after he got into a brawl with a fellow student over the remote control while watching an IPL match. ...
11:57 PM, Apr 26, 2012

B'lore: Student dies after fight over TV remote

B'lore: Student dies after fight over TV remote Bangalore: There is a controversy over the death of a student from Manipur at Bangalore's Acharya Institute of Architecture on April 17. Richard Loitam died of a cerebral haemorrhage in his sleep hours after he got into a brawl with a fellow student over the remote control while watching an IPL match. He had reportedly been punched in the head by a fellow hostelmate after a brawl over the TV...
07:18 PM, Apr 25, 2012

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 126th birthday doodle

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 126th birthday doodle New Delhi: The doodle on March 27 is the 27th Google doodle in the month of March. This marks the 126th birth anniversary of the German-born American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Popularly known as Ludwig Mies, he was born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies on March 27, 1886 in Aachen, Germany. After Ludwig Mies had established himself as an architect and his marriage failed he added his maternal surname...
12:49 AM, Mar 27, 2012

CBI arrests 4 in Shehla Masood murder case

CBI arrests 4 in Shehla Masood murder case Bhopal: Six months after she was found dead outside her residence in Bhopal, the CBI claims to have cracked the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. An interior designer, Zahida Pervez, and 4 others have been arrested for the murder. But strangely, the CBI is silent on the motive. Masood was found dead outside her home in Bhopal on August 16, 2011. According to CBI, Pervez orchestrated her murder hiring...
11:39 PM, Feb 28, 2012

Young Indian Leaders: Saving Kashmir's heritage

Young Indian Leaders: Saving Kashmir's heritage Srinagar: Kasmir Young Indian Leaders, the award, now in its second year, recognises young men and women who have charted their own destiny. Saima Iqbal, a conservation architect, working tirelessly to restore the cultural sanctity of the Kashmir valley. It's like paying a longstanding debt to the fabled Nishat garden, one of Srinagar's many beautifully manicured lawns laid by the Mughals. A place Saima still adores when she revisits it...
07:10 AM, Jul 02, 2011

Engineering colleges to have 2 lakh more seats

Engineering colleges to have 2 lakh more seats New Delhi: Too many students and too little seats - it's the bane of Indian education right from nursery to graduation and beyond. Turn it around could take years, but the baby steps taken by Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal in technical education put out new norms for AICTE accredited institutes - the government-approved non-IIT and non-IIM institutes. These will see an increase in the number of engineering and management...
05:02 PM, Dec 30, 2010

Study uncovers details of cave temple architecture

Study uncovers details of cave temple architecture Tiruchirappalli: An archaeological study in Tamil Nadu has thrown light on interesting facets of cave temple architecture during the Pandyas-Pallavas reign, besides uncovering musical inscriptions engraved on some temples. The study has revealed that cave temples of the Pandyas and the feudatories exhibited several cult images of Ananthasayi (Lord Vishnu), Lord Ganesh and Durga, which were not seen in the Pallava corpus of cave art, D Dayalan, Superintending Archaeologist, Temple...
11:08 AM, Oct 27, 2010

UN rights boss denounces Swiss ban on minarets

UN rights boss denounces Swiss ban on minarets Pillay said prohibiting a structure linked to a religion was discriminatory. ...
11:35 PM, Dec 01, 2009
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