Justice delayed is justice denied, and if that is the case then the 21-year-old victim of a horrific acid attack can rightly complain that justice doesn’t prevail in the city. Four months after her husband threw acid on her face while she was asleep, the police for one have not arrested the accused yet and, secondly, the charges applied against him are lenient. Police have applied sections of causing grievous […]
MUMBAI: Seventeen-year-old Riyaz Shahbandri from Kurla was a shy civil engineering student at Nagpada’s Saboo Siddik polytechnic in 1993. He would maintain a low profile and hardly participated in any college events. However, girls found his chocolate-boy looks appealing. Two decades later, he began making headlines as Riyaz Bhatkal, a suspected terrorist who has killed more people than the feared Dawood Ibrahim or the hanged Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab—more than […]
A Bengali film has been refused a certificate by the local censor board, allegedly because it is critical of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stirring a new debate about artistic freedom of expression. Please follow and like us:
In Pic :The restaurants in the newly-added areas are expected to cater to those living in slums, daily labourers, drivers, load men and migrant workers — Photo: R. Ravindran. Inauguration coincides with birthday of CM Jayalalithaa; suggestions to include appalam, pickle, thuvayal in set lunch menu The Chennai Corporation on Saturday announced the 24 locations where a budget restaurant each will be opened on Sunday. The inauguration of the ‘Amma […]
For more than two weeks, the Shahbag area in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka has been the centre of an extraordinary protest, with tens of thousands converging there every day peacefully to demand that those convicted of 1971 war crimes must be given nothing less than the death sentence. In this interview with Nirupama Subramanian, Bangladeshi writer, columnist and development worker Farah Ghuznavi, who was in Chennai for The Hindu Lit for Life 2013, described the […]
In Pic: Director Ang Lee accepting the Best Director award for “Life of Pi” at the Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on Sunday. While no Indian film was up for nomination in the 85th annual Academy Awards, held Sunday night in Los Angeles, Taiwan-born Ang Lee’s win in the Best Director category for “Life of Pi’’ ensured a national connection to this year’s Oscars. The movie, […]
A man believed to be the world’s oldest marathon runner has run his last long distance competitive race in Hong Kong. Fauja Singh, from Ilford, east London, who is 101 years old, finished the Hong Kong 10km (6.25 mile) event in one hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds. “I will remember this day. I will miss it,” Mr Singh said minutes after crossing the finish line. In 2000, he ran […]
Indian police say they have arrested a man suspected of passing military secrets to arch-rival Pakistan. The man, an Indian citizen, was held in the western state of Rajasthan near the two countries’ border. Police say he passed details of military exercises held last week to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. India and Pakistan frequently accuse each other of spying. The arrest comes after weeks of tension over the disputed territory of […]
“Come near Chandrayangutta bridge. Thoda baata karne ka hai (We need to talk to you),” ordered the voice in Hyderabadi Urdu on Sunday morning The man who identified himself as an officer from Hyderabad police’s East Zone was in fact calling Dr Ibrahim Ali Junaid from Mohammed Rayeesuddin’s phone. Rayeesuddin had been called for questioning and the police wanted to quiz Junaid as well. When Junaid told the officer he […]
For the first time, a Muslim woman has become the head of a wing other than the women’s wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party in UP. Among the new office-bearers, whose names were announced on Saturday, Rumana Siddiqui, a housewife, is president of the minority wing of the party. Except the women’s wing, which is always headed by a woman, the BJP has never had a woman heading any of […]
