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Topic: rape murder

Of blind love & ‘raja betas’: HC’s acquittal of a mother who ‘shielded’ son in 5-yr-old’s rape-murder

Punjab and Haryana High Court also commuted the man’s death sentence to life term, saying he ‘must stay inside the four walls of prison until he is closer to sunset of his virility’.

Priyadarshini Mattoo’s family meets Delhi minister, urges him to not allow her killer’s premature release

Priyadarshini Mattoo was a DU law student when Santosh Kumar Singh raped and murdered her in 1996. Her body was found with a room heater's cord around the neck.

‘Serial killer’ arrested in Gujarat ‘raped & murdered woman for smiling, killed man over beedi’

From Haryana’s Rohtak, Rahul Jat stands accused of murdering five people in 25 days and raping at least two of the women he killed.

Moving SC, Centre says Bengal ‘not cooperating’ with CISF personnel deployed after Kolkata rape-murder

Kolkata police denied accommodation, security gadgets & adequate vehicles to the CISF, says Centre, seeking directions to the state to fulfil its obligations or else face contempt.

Kolkata hospital rape-murder: Doctor’s body ‘was bleeding from mouth, eyes, private parts’, 1 arrested

CM Mamata Banerjee assures doctor's parents of bringing guilty to book, deploys additional police forces as protests grow. BJP targets CM, urges parents to seek CBI probe.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.