Washington: In the wake of the huge public outcry over the deadly Connecticut elementary school massacre, President Barack Obama has set a January deadline for proposals to deal with gun violence in the United States. Five days after last week's massacre that left 26, including 20 children, dead, Obama on Wednesday formed a new group led by Vice President Joe Biden charged with developing "concrete proposals" for dealing with gun...
01:34 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Washington: Spurred by a horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration Wednesday with creating concrete proposals to reduce the gun violence that has plagued the country. "This time, the words need to lead to action," said Obama, who set a January deadline for the recommendations. He tasked Vice President Joe Biden with leading the effort and vowed to push for implementation of the policy proposals without delay....
11:54 PM, Dec 19, 2012
The recent massacre of children and their teachers at a Newtown, Connecticut, school saw the debate on gun law resume in the United States where more than 270 million guns are in public hands. India, incidentally, has the second largest number of guns (46 million) in public hands in the world. So, can India draw any lessons from the Connecticut shooting incident and should it enforce tighter gun control? Binalakshmi...
04:30 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Salt Lake City: A Utah sixth-grader caught with a gun at school told administrators he brought the weapon to defend himself in case of an attack similar to last week's mass shooting at a Connecticut school, officials said on Tuesday. The 11-year-old was being held in juvenile detention on suspicion of possessing a dangerous weapon and aggravated assault after other students at the suburban Salt Lake City elementary school told...
07:22 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Newtown: Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday for the first time since a gunman's rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school, altering the gun control debate in Washington and forcing a retailer to pull guns from shelves. Sandy Hook Elementary, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza gunned down a score of 6- and 7-year-olds and six adults on Friday, will remain closed. It is...
10:29 PM, Dec 18, 2012
India's Joydeep Karmakar finished 4th in the 50m prone shooting event at the London Olympics. ...
09:43 PM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: Some of India's top shooters, including London Olympics silver and bronze medallists Vijay Kumar and Gagan Kumar, will be competing in the 56th Senior National Shooting Championship, starting here on Tuesday. Also vying for medals in their respective events will be Beijing Games gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, Athens Olympic silver medallist R V S Rathore, double trap ace Ronjan Sodhi and Joydeep Karmakar among others. The women's field...
09:29 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Los Angeles: Paramount studio has reportedly decided to make several cuts in the publicity videos of Tom Cruise starrer crime drama 'Jack Reacher' in wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The film, releasing this Friday in the US, stars Cruise as a hard-boiled former military cop trying to prove that an alleged sniper was framed. The studio wouldn't officially say what the changes are, but a source confirmed...
05:51 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Newtown: Opening a long and almost unbearable procession of grief, Newtown began burying its dead Monday, laying to rest two 6-year-old boys - one who was crazy about the New York Giants and one whose twin sister survived the rampage. Two funeral homes filled with mourners for Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, the first of the 20 children killed in last week's school massacre to receive funerals. The gunman also...
05:33 AM, Dec 18, 2012
A message read at the funeral of 6-year-old Noah Pozner by his uncle Alexis Haller, of Woodinville, Wash.: On Friday, December 14, we tragically lost a most beloved member of our family. Noah was a 6-year-old little boy, and he was so dear to all of our hearts. Words cannot express the unfathomable loss we feel. Noah was a wonderful son and a loving brother. He was kind, caring, smart,...
01:54 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Lilly Rosell contemplated keeping her 7-year-old daughter at home on the first day of classes since the Connecticut elementary school massacre, but she ultimately decided, like so many other parents, there was only so much she could do to keep her daughter safe. "I'm panicking here to be honest," Rosell, of Miami, said as she anxiously surveyed her daughter's campus. "It's now about being in the prayer closet a little...
01:22 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Schools in two Connecticut towns were in lockdown on Monday, the first day children returned to class since Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. All schools in Ridgefield, Connecticut, were in lockdown because of a suspicious person who might be armed, police said. In nearby Redding, schools were locked down as a precaution, police said. Ridgefield is about 20 miles (30 km) from Newtown, site of Friday's...
12:14 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Joydeep Karmakar, who finished 4th in the Men's 50m Rifle Prone event at the Olympics, will participate in the Shooting nationals after a long break. ...
01:39 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called "unconscionable evil," holds on Monday the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week. Meanwhile, schools across the country will reopen their doors to confused and scared children full of questions about why the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting happened - and whether they are safe from the very same danger. Obama, addressing an...
12:57 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Topeka: Two Kansas police officers were shot outside a grocery store while responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle and died later at a hospital, authorities said. Topeka Police Chief Ronald Miller called the shootings of Cpl David Gogian and Officer Jeff Atherly "unspeakable." He said both Gogian, 50, and Atherly, 29, were shot in the head by a gunman who opened fire on them within minutes of their...
12:43 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition - enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time, authorities said Sunday, raising the chilling possibility that the bloodbath could have been even worse. Hours later, President Barack Obama told mourners at a vigil that the nation is failing to keep its children safe....
12:03 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The tragic massacre at a Connecticut elementary school has sparked a new debate about gun control in the US. ...
10:15 AM, Dec 17, 2012
US President Barack Obama attended a memorial service for the victims of the Newtown shooting on Monday. ...
09:40 AM, Dec 17, 2012
The suspect, sending shoppers at a crowded Southern California shopping mall sprinting for safety, was cooperative when officers took him into custody. ...
09:35 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Newton, Connecticut: At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. The gunfire on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School left a toll both unbearable and...
08:27 AM, Dec 17, 2012
