The fate of the four men convicted for the “cold-blooded” gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student in December last year hangs in the balance with the trial court set to pronounce its order on the quantum of sentence on Wednesday.

India’s leading squash players Saurav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa will look to make a mark in the main round of the $50,000 CIMB Malaysian Open at Petaling Jaya on Wednesday.

The deathly silence brooding over Kedarnath since the June calamity hit Uttarakhand broke early this morning by the chanting of Vedic hymns as prayers resumed at the Himalayan shrine, 86 days after ravaging floods left over 400 people dead in the Kedar valley.

A major split in Congress marked the fresh beginning of the Trinamul Congress in Tripura with a promise to oust the Left Front from their last bastion in 2018 when the state will hold its next Assembly election and the immediate goal to emerge as the second political force in the state in 2014 Lok Sabha election.

Shortly after the court pronounced its verdict declaring all the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case guilty, her family members expressed satisfaction with the outcome. Now, all they want is the death penalty for the four men.

Kathmandu, Sept. 10: Having notched up a morale-boosting semi-final victory over the Maldives, defending champions India will try to maintain their supremacy in the Saff Football Championship when they take Afghanistan in the summit clash here on Wednesday.

A Delhi court on Tuesday delivered the much-awaited verdict in the horrific gangrape-murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student inside a moving bus in December last year, that shook the entire country, prompting large-scale protests and outrage across India.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Tuesday said that Rahul Gandhi should be projected as the prime ministerial candidate of the party to counter the BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The water of the spring at the sacred Hindu shrine of Khirbhawani outside Srinagar has turned red, the phenomenon witnessed after more than half a century is being seen by the priests as a “bad omen.”

India will host the 2015 edition of the Saff tournament, it was decided in the executive committee meeting of the South Asian body here on Tuesday.