Bangalore: The Karnataka Cabinet on Monday rejected serial killer Umesh Reddy's mercy plea. Reddy was convicted and sentenced to death by a Fast Track Court in 2006 for the rape and murder of Jayshree Maradi Subbaiah. Reddy's death sentence was upheld in 2007 by a Bangalore High Court division bench for the 1998 case of rape and murder of Jayshree, a widow. The Supreme Court had on February 1, 2011...
05:57 PM, May 07, 2012
Oslo: Norwegian killer Anders Breivik has told a court in Oslo that he picked up strategies from the Al Qaeda and said it could serve as inspiration to European far-right militants. Breivik said he had been closely following Al Qaeda since 2006 and studied each of their actions. "(Al Qaeda is) the most successful revolutionary movement in the world," he said. The 33-year-old said he had read more than 600...
09:45 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Rio De Janeiro: Three people accused of killing at least three women in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco said that they ate some of their victims' flesh and also used it to make a dish they sold to their neighbours, police said on Friday. The accused, a man and two women, were arrested on Wednesday in Garanhuns, 234 km from Recife, the state capital, and said that they belonged...
05:40 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: "Nomoshkar, ek minute." Remember this phrase. The next time a nondescript Life Insurance Corporation agent rings your doorbell in the middle of the day and reaches into his worn leather side bag, you may want to barricade the door and call the police. But Saswata Chatterjee, the actor who immortalized the character of the polite assassin in Sujoy Ghosh's superhit film Kahaani, is only mildly surprised at his...
12:21 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Bangalore: Woman serial killer Mallika alias Cyanide Mallika, 45, was awarded death sentence by the First Additional Rural Court in Bangalore on Friday in connection with a murder. Mallika has been given death sentence for the second time. Mallika, who was arrested by Kalasipalya police at Kaggalipura on December 18, 2007, was charged of killing Nagaveni, 35, of Allalasandra in Yelahanka. Mallika used to loiter around temples and female devotees...
03:43 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Toulouse: The suspect in an radical Islam-linked killing spree in southern France has stopped communicating with authorities and may have committed suicide, the interior minister said on Thursday, as a standoff between the gunman and hundreds of police entered a second day. Claude Gueant said suspect Mohamed Merah, holed up in an apartment in the southern city of Toulouse, has not contacted negotiators since Wednesday night. "We hope that he...
03:51 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Greer: An array of Republicans and conservatives - including some of Mitt Romney's sharpest critics - rushed to the GOP presidential front-runner's defence on Thursday to counter efforts to paint the former venture capitalist as a job-killer. Under fire, Romney rival Newt Gingrich tempered his attacks on Romney's tenure at the helm of Bain Capital, but Rick Perry defended his approach. "We're disappointed" with the line of criticism, said Thomas...
11:34 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Artificial Leaf When chemistry professor Daniel Nocera at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that a device the size of a poker card could split water into hydrogen and oxygen, he was merely taking a leaf out of Mother Nature's playbook, except that he called it 'artificial leaf'. Fashioned from silicon, electronics and catalysts, Nocera's leaf mimics photosynthesis. When placed in about three litres of water, this 'leaf' produces a...
04:05 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Los Angeles: With dramatic courtroom testimony, attorneys for Michael Jackson's doctor have dropped the bombshell they've been hinting at for months - an expert opinion accusing the singer of causing his own death. Dr. Paul White said Jackson injected himself with a dose of propofol after an initial dose by Dr. Conrad Murray wore off. He also calculated that Jackson gave himself another sedative, lorazepam, by taking pills after an...
01:59 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Chennai: DMK Chief Karunanidhi on Thursday appealed to the Centre to release former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassins. Three of the assassins of the former prime minister have been in jail for 20 years. The hanging of the killers was earlier slated in August. However, it was stayed by the Madras High Court. The former Tamil Nadu chief minister appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
02:37 PM, Oct 06, 2011
The movie 'Killer Elite', releasing in the US this September also stars Robert De Niro. ...
10:47 AM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Wednesday termed as "unfortunate" Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's comments on Afzal Guru and maintained that a responsible leader like him should not speak the "language" of Hurriyat leaders. Abdullah had tweeted that if J&K Assembly had passed a resolution against the death sentence given to Afzal Guru as was done by the Tamil Nadu Assembly for the killers of Rajiv Gandhi, the reaction...
05:49 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Oslo: Gunnar Linaker was a gentle bear of a man, a lover of people and the outdoors who dedicated himself to the ideals of the country's left-leaning governing party. Tove Aashill Knutsen worked as a secretary at the electrician's union, a well-liked woman who commuted to work by bike. Ismail Haji Ahmed was a dreadlocked descendant of immigrants, a teenage musician who recently appeared on the "Norway's Talents" television show....
02:51 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Oslo: Anders Behring Breivik wants to tell Norway and the World why he killed at least 93 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage when he appears in court on Monday, his lawyer said. Calling himself a crusader against a tide of Islam in a rambling 1,500-page online manifesto, the 32-year-old mass murderer wants the opportunity to explain actions he deemed "atrocious, but necessary". Lawyer Geir Lippestad said his...
07:52 AM, Jul 25, 2011
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