Alipore: A lady teacher who was arrested for allegedly banging a class III student's head against a wall as punishment leading to his death was on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Alipore ACJM, SM Shahnawaz, remanded Champa Mondal of the Nirdheshkhali Shishu Shiksha Kendra in South 24 Parganas district to judicial custody and she would be produced before the court again on June 1.
Mondal allegedly banged the head of nine-year-old Bapi Joardar against a wall as punishment for playing with his bag with another student on April 15. The boy was grievously injured and was taken by his parents to a hospital in Canning, the district headquarters, from where he was referred the same night to a hospital in Kolkata where he died the next day.
The teacher in her mid-30s was arrested on Friday. Education minister Bratya Basu had announced that a secretary-level officer would conduct an inquiry into the incident.
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06:33 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: State-owned energy major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Thursday reclaimed the spot as the country's most-valued company, pushing IT giant TCS to the second slot. At the end of trade, ONGC commanded a market value of Rs 2,89,047 crore. This is about Rs 4,428 crore more than TCS's market cap of Rs 2,84,619 crore. ONGC scrip ended 0.82 per cent higher, while TCS lost 1.02 per cent...
04:53 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Indian hedge fund manager Kalpesh Kinariwala is so sure of his equity strategies in a country that has stumped foreign rivals that he sends a daily e-mail tracker of his performance - including to competitors. Kinariwala's Capveda Capital (India) Advisory fund, which he runs from a modest office in a decrepit industrial estate in Mumbai, has returned 11.86 per cent so far in 2013, outperforming average negative returns of...
09:14 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The five-year-old Delhi girl, brutalised by a neighbour earlier this week, is the fifth minor to have fallen prey to rapists in the national capital in April. In many of the 393 rapes since January 1, the accused were known to the victims, police records show. The five-year girl was abducted April 15 and kept hostage by her neighbour for two days without food and water and repeatedly...
06:27 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Mogadishu: At least 19 people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday in suicide bombings and assaults by al Shabaab militants linked to al Qaeda, breaking a fragile return to peace in Mogadishu. A bomb exploded outside law courts in the city as gunmen stormed the compound. Security forces then arrived and battled the fighters inside. Later, a bomb exploded near an African Union and Turkish Red Crescent convoy...
07:20 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Although the global trend towards abolition remained strong, 2012 saw a disappointing resumption of executions in some countries including India, the latest Amnesty International report on death penalty and capital sentencing around the world in 2012 has revealed. The total number of confirmed executions was 682, two more than in 2011 with India accounting for one of them - the hanging of Mumbai 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab. The data from...
11:02 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Nathan Dyer and Jonathan de Guzman scored twice to secure the biggest victory margin ever in the final of English football's second-tier knockout competition. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Michael Laudrup will not be drawn on his future as Swansea City manager ahead of Capital One Cup final, with speculation linking him to Real Madrid. ...
07:04 PM, Feb 22, 2013
A week after the gruesome rape and murders of three sisters in Bhandara district in Maharashtra, no arrests have been made yet. The mother of the three girls wants the culprits to be hanged in public. "I think the men who did this should be found at the earliest and hanged in public," she said speaking to CNN-IBN. ...
09:59 AM, Feb 21, 2013
While speaking to CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said that alcohol is the root cause of crime against women. ...
11:30 AM, Feb 20, 2013
While speaking to CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said that alcohol is the root cause of crime against women. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has entered the Afzal Guru hanging debate saying Kashmiris should see Afzal as an Indian and not just a Kashmiri. He also said that death penalty should be abolished while speaking to CNN-IBN's deputy editor Sagarika Ghose. ...
12:03 PM, Feb 19, 2013
In Pune, CNN-IBN's team touches another nerve of India's economy, the capital goods sector which contributes to about 6 per cent of our economy. Because of the slowdown in the economy projects worth over thousands of crores are in a limbo impacting the sector. ...
11:00 AM, Feb 13, 2013
At least five persons were injured as fresh protests broke out in Kashmir on Tuesday against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...
11:41 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday hit back at Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai after he blamed the government of crony capitalism during a speech at Harvard. Reacting to Rai's speech, Digvijaya said, "If not an accountant, what does he want to be? The Prime Minister? The Constitution has defined the role of the CAG. How will a democracy function if judiciary does the job of the...
02:51 PM, Feb 08, 2013
In a hard-hitting speech, the Comptroller and Auditor General, Vinod Rai, has defended his role. Rai has said that the role of the public auditor cannot be confined only to placing reports in Parliament. During a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School of government, Rai spoke on the various scams in the government. ...
11:30 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Amid the nationwide debate over giving rapists the death penalty, Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen is not in favour of capital punishment, saying it does not serve as a "deterrent" and "preventive function". Sen at the same time said today he was not against "severe punishment" in critical cases. ...
11:17 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Shares in Bank of India make a sharp fall before quickly recovering in what some traders describe as a "freak" trade. Trading at 336.65 rupees, down 1.2 per cent, Bank of India shares suddenly fell to 314 rupees, down 7.8 percent on the day, at around 12:20 p.m IST. The shares, however, recover to 337.35. ...
02:43 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Ahead of the forthcoming Valentine's Day, celebrities like Sania Mirza and Ayushmann Khurrana have voted for 'India's Love Capital', an online property initiated to "bring in a feeling of positivity". ...
11:20 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore Friday opposed capital punishment for rape saying death is neither the ultimate punishment nor a deterrent. "I don't think death is the ultimate punishment. It is not a deterrent because when the person is committing the crime, he thinks that he is not going to be caught. ...
10:02 AM, Feb 02, 2013
