Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday in his address in the Rajya Sabha defended the UPA's record on reforms introduced in the country. Replying to President Pranb Mukherjee's address to the Parliament during the Budget Session, Manmohan said that he agreed with the President that India needs high growth rate to solve the problems of poverty and unemployment. ...
01:15 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The government fielded attacks from both the Opposition and its allies in Parliament on Thursday as the Lok Sabha debated India's role in finding a solution to the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka, and said it will take the "best possible" decision on UN resolution on the island country. Lok Sabha members demanded that government should take a more stern action against the atrocities committed against the Tamils. ...
05:08 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Lok Sabha on Thursday discussed the alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan army against Tamils during the battle to wipe out the LTTE. DMK leaders pointed out that the Sri Lankan army carried out atrocities and was involved in killing innocent people in the battle. ...
12:30 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Twenty one more people have been killed in clashes between Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) supporters and police taking the toll to about 80 after a tribunal awarded death penalty to Islamist leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee for 1971 war crimes. A two-day strike called by JI that started on Sunday coincided with President Pranab Mukherjee's maiden visit to the country. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 04, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013 in a trip that is expected to take bilateral relations between the two neighbours to new heights. ...
07:22 AM, Mar 03, 2013
The school principal of the two children, whose decomposed bodies were found near Pragati Maidan in central Delhi on Saturday, said that the "kidnapper" was known to the siblings. "School dispersed as usual on that day. There was nothing suspicious. The two kids looked fine when they left with that man. They even referred to him as their uncle," he addded. ...
10:36 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Expressing concern over eruption of violence in the country that has killed more than 46 people, the US has asked Bangladesh to help calm the ongoing situation and demanded citizens to engage in peaceful protest. ...
10:46 AM, Mar 02, 2013
A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his two minor daughters in the city, police said on Friday. The 40-year-old man, a history-sheeter from Madhya Pradesh who had settled in a north-west city locality sometime back, raped his 16-year-old daughter in July, 2012 and later sexually assaulted the other 14-year-old girl, police said. ...
05:53 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Bangladesh on Friday deployed paramilitary border guards to beef up security after a top Islamist opposition leader was sentenced to death, sparking nationwide riots that killed at least 42 people. "Our troops were deployed in 15 troubled districts in aide of civil administration... BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) has been kept alert so it could move immediately wherever they are required," BGB chief major General Aziz Ahmed told reporters. ...
03:35 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Bangladesh war crimes tribunal on Thursday handed down death penalty to a top leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, triggering fierce clashes across the country that left at least 35 people dead. 73-year-old Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of eight counts out of 20 involving rape, mass killings and...
11:55 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Bangladesh was on the boil on Thursday as at least 23 people, including three policemen, were killed and scores injured in violence after a death sentence was handed down to a top leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war. The violence followed the verdict of the special Bangladeshi tribunal that handed down death penalty to Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the party, amid...
08:17 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked state government and the police to ensure within a week proper "publicity" to their orders that all hospitals, including private ones, cannot deny treatment to survivors of criminal offences, especially rape and road accidents. ...
07:23 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Thousands of people demonstrated in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka to demand a death sentence for an Islamic party leader accused of committing atrocities during the country's 1971 Liberation war. More than 5,000 people rallied on Wednesday after a special tribunal said it would deliver its verdict against Delwar Hossain Sayedee on Thursday. ...
10:59 PM, Feb 27, 2013
A shooting at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland on Wednesday left three people dead and seven injured, some of them seriously, prosecutors said. The shooting occurred shortly after 9 am at the premises of Kronospan, a company in the small town of Menznau, west of Lucerne. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 27, 2013
The Centre has said that it will not reduce the age of juveniles involved in crimes even in the rarest of rare cases. This came amidst outrage over the sixth accused in the Delhi gangrape case getting away with lesser punishment. ...
01:51 PM, Feb 27, 2013
There were noisy scenes in the Rajya Sabha as the government came under fire from the AIADMK over war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government in the last days of the crusade against the LTTE in 2009. The AIADMK's V Maitreyan lashed out at the government for not doing anything for the people of Tamil origin living in Lanka. ...
01:42 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Two people were killed on Saturday in continuing violence in Bangladesh as supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami party clashed with police while thousands of anti-Islamist protestors vowed to carry on their street campaign demanding death penalty for radical leaders being tried for alleged war crimes. ...
11:07 PM, Feb 23, 2013
A 47-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by a local court for raping his minor niece 18 years ago. Suresh Atote was pronounced guilty by Additional Sessions Judge DM Deshmukh, who awarded the jail term to the convict on Thursday. The Judge did not accept Atote's defence that he was with his friend Ramlakhan Shukla, who deposed in the court, when the crime took place...
08:42 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The issue of the Hyderabad blasts on Friday resonated in Parliament with the government facing the flak for "failing" to check such incidents despite having intelligence inputs about them. This even as Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde promised "more firm action" to eliminate terror from the country. ...
11:17 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Sri Lanka is once again surrounded by allegations of war crimes as a video of LTTE chief Prabhakaran's son has re-emerged. The pictures of the 12-year-old son of Prabhakaran have put the UPA government in India in a spot. ...
06:21 PM, Feb 20, 2013
