The stand-off between India and Italy is fast snowballing into a diplomatic crisis. Two days after Italy refused to send its marines back to stand trial in Indian fishermen murder case, India is taking steps to regain lost ground. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Italian ambassador to India Daniele Mancini will be asked to leave. ...
07:36 AM, Mar 13, 2013
The Kerala Police have revealed that it was an anonymous note sent to the State Bank of Travencore - where Bitti Mohanty was working under a alias - that helped them nab the rape convict. Reports say that the note might have been sent by a jilted girlfriend and bank colleague. ...
07:27 AM, Mar 13, 2013
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09:15 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty was brought to Jaipur on a train on Tuesday evening by Kerala police. Bitti was sent to 10-day police custody on Monday. ...
08:15 PM, Mar 12, 2013
CNN-IBN's Surya Gangadharan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on India-Italy standoff over the under trial marines' non-return. ...
06:33 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The two Italian marines had praised India while casting their votes and had hailed it as a great democratic country, a video footage of a local television channel has shown. The video shows the two marines casting their votes and also meeting defence officials after that. ...
03:35 PM, Mar 12, 2013
BJP on Monday termed as "betrayal and bluff" the Italian government's refusal to send back two marines charged with shooting dead two Indian fishermen and demanded that all efforts be made to bring them back to face trial in the case. "This is betrayal and bluff by the Italian government. It is a breach of trust between two sovereign nations and the act is completely unacceptable. Indian government should take...
01:55 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The BJP on Tuesday termed as 'betrayal and bluff' the Italian government's refusal to send back two marines charged with shooting dead two Indian fishermen and demanded that all efforts be made to bring them back to face trial in the case. ...
01:49 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday termed as "unacceptable" Italy's refusal to send its two marines back to India where they were facing trial for killing two fishermen and said the issue will be taken up with that country. Singh conveyed this to delegations of Kerala MPs from Left and Congress, who met him separately to express anguish and demand his intervention in the "serious" matter. ...
01:36 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday termed as unacceptable Italy's decision not to send its two marines to India, who were being tried for killing two fishermen. He said he will take up the issue with the External Affairs Ministry. ...
11:30 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has sought an appointment with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday. He will take up the issue of the Italian marines who refused to return to the country for the trial in the Kerala fishermen killings case. Sources say that he has also written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue. ...
11:10 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The Indian government has reacted to Italy's decision of not sending the Italian marines charged with the murder of two Kerala fishermen back to India. Government sources say the sanctity of sovereign guarantees has been violated by Italy. ...
10:14 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty will be taken by the Rajasthan Police back to Rajasthan on Tuesday. Mohanty was sent to 10-day police custody on Monday. He had jumped parole in 2006 while serving a seven-year sentence in Alwar in Rajasthan on charges of raping a German tourist. ...
09:51 AM, Mar 12, 2013
India and Italy are set for a diplomatic stand-off after the Italian government refused to send back the two marines charged with the murder of Indian fishermen in Kerala. The Ministry of External Affairs is still processing the statement from Italy. ...
07:52 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Bitti Mohanti, the rape convict arrested after being on the run for seven years, has been sent to 10-day police custody and will be taken by the Kerala police to Rajasthan on Tuesday. Meanwhile, residents of Kannur, who knew him as Raghav Rajan, are still coming to terms with the reality. ...
10:45 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Italian foreign ministry said on Monday that the two marines, who have been charged in India for shooting two Kerala fishermen, will remain in Italy. The Ministry of External Affairs said it has received the communication from Italy and that it will examine it carefully. ...
10:20 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Former Odisha DG BB Mohanty has said that the man arrested from Kerala is not his son Bitti Mohanty, who was convicted of raping a German tourist in 2006. Bitti had jumped parole in 2006 after being sentenced to seven years imprisonment and was on the run. On Friday, the Kerala Police claimed to have arrested Bitti, who they said was working at the State Bank of Travancore since June...
01:23 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Kerala High Court on Monday directed the state government to file a statement regarding details of cases filed by the Suryanelli rape victim against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien before the magistrate and higher courts. The direction in this regard was issued by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and justice Vinod Chandran on a PIL filed by Kamala Sadanandan, General Secretary of Kerala Mahila Sangam, a...
12:59 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Billed as India's biggest shopping mall, the Lulu Shopping Mall was inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in Kochi on Sunday. Built at a cost of over Rs 1,600 crore, the mall is spread over 2.5 million square feet of space and is owned by EMKE group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) businessman MA Yousuf Ali, who hails from Kerala. ...
11:22 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Former Odisha DG BB Mohanty is under scrutiny for allegedly aiding his son Bitti Mohanty, a rape convict, while he was absconding. Rama Rao, a former headmaster of a school in Puttaparthy, Andhra Pradesh, where Bitti worked under a false name while he was on the run, claims he had a regular visitor who he can identify as BB Mohanty. ...
10:29 AM, Mar 11, 2013
