Yossef Bodansky, former director of theUnited States Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare at the US House of Representatives, is an old South Asia hand, who had first warned of the Pakistan-China nexus in the 1990s.

India’s successful test-launch of the nuclear-capable, intercontinental, surface-to-surface ballistic missile, Agni-V on September 15, 2013, following the April 2012 launch of the 5,000 kms range vers

Spin your way to glory on the road instead of at the slimming point, where the bike stands static and is permanently fixed to the ground. Before the cycles completely disappear from the streets of Kolkata, the campaigners in favour of lifting the ban over them seem to beseech the city-dwellers with the above line.

“We will all sleep peacefully today,” the 20-year-old brother of the Delhi gangrape victim said on Friday, expressing his happiness after a Delhi court sentenced the four convicts to death for the brutal attack.

It was a painful wait, but justice has finally been delivered in the December 16 gangrape case. The incident that shook the conscience of the nation, witnessed thousands of people coming out on the streets demanding death for the accused who brutally gangraped the 23-year-old paramedical student in the national capital who succumbed to injuries.

The death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the Delhi gangrape case has been lauded by those who believe only such exemplary punishment can act as a deterrent to other individuals.

Four adult men convicted for cold-blooded murder and gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedic student in December in 2012 were on Friday sentenced to death by a Delhi court, a decision the judge said will send “strong deterrent message” that a ghastly act of this gravity cannot be tolerated.

Captain Jayanta Kumar Sengupta, popularly known as Jojo, was the second son of Amar Prashad and Namita Sengupta and was born on 17 October, 1942, at Lahore, where Mr Sengupta, working with Shalimar Paints, was posted.

A year ago, Prabhat Kumar Behera, the 21-year-old son of Prasanna Behera, a resident of Maniabeda village in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, lived in despair and hopelessness.

For the last few years, every time I have participated in TV discussions on the Budget day, I have noticed how the stock markets play its mischievous card. Before the finance minister gets up to present the Budget in Parliament, the Sensex invariably slumps. This indicates the nervousness in the market. As the finance minister goes on reading his speech, the Sensex also steadily rises.