This Kerala man, convicted of child rape in the UK, is on the run in India

Last Tuesday, Judge Peter Ross of the Oxford Crown Court in the United Kingdom found a 29-year old business manager from India guilty on two counts of rape and sentenced him to a prison term of 18 years. The judgement was delivered in absentia, as Vijesh Kooriyil, the man found guilty of repeatedly raping a six-year-old child, had fled the country the night before. Kooriyil who boarded a plane to Delhi on Monday night...

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Manohar Aich: Top Indian bodybuilder dies, aged 104

Image copyrightAFPImage captionThe 1.49m- (4ft-10.5in) tall bodybuilder was popularly known as 'Pocket Hercules' Tributes have been paid to a celebrated Indian body-builder, Manohar Aich, who has died in the city of Kolkata (Calcutta), aged 104. Mr Aich died of age-related "complications" on Sunday, his family said. He is survived by four children. Mr Aich was the first Indian to become Mr Universe in 1952, five years after the country's...

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LIVE - Gulbarg Society massacre: hearing on quantum of punishment on June 9

A devastated building bears testimony to the mob violence in Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on 28 February 2002. Many of the residents of the Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura were killed in the carnage. The court had said there was no evidence of criminal conspiracy in the case A special SIT court, which convicted 24 persons in the 2002 post-Godhra Gulbarg Society massacre case, adjourned hearing on the quantum of punishment...

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Modi’s US visit: China’s growing footprint a cause of concern?

Barack Obama and Narendra Modi have "invested in developing a close relationship." Modi paying Obama a farewell visit is being touted as a sign of growing collaboration  between the two countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit will highlight the growing collaboration between India  and the US and their “shared leadership” on the world stage, the White House said on the  eve of his arrival in Washington. “This visit celebrates the remarkable transformation in US- India ties. Over the...

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