Cutting across party lines, political leaders today demanded death penalty for the four convicts in December 16 gangrape case, saying the punishment should set a precedent so that nobody dares to even think of committing such an act.

Delhi police Tuesday came in for special praise for using scientific investigation techniques in the probe into the December 16 gangrape case by a city court which convicted the four men after a fast track trial.

Having given ample demonstration of his appetite for notching up big scores, India’s batting sensation Shikhar Dhawan Tuesday said he has become mentally strong, and that his shot selection has got better in the past one year.

India’s exports rose for the second straight month in August, while the trade deficit narrowed as gold imports fell.

An Indian court convicted four men Tuesday of the gang rape and “cold-blooded” murder of a student on a New Delhi bus in a crime that sickened the nation and led to new laws to tackle endemic sex crime.

Embattled former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf Tuesday filed a petition before the anti terrorism court in Quetta seeking exemption from personal appearance in connection with the Bugti murder case.

Tokyo was awarded the 2020 summer Olympic Games on Saturday, beating Istanbul in a head-to-head vote after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a charismatic plea to the International Olympic Committee and promised Japan’s crippled nuclear plant was “under control.”

The Trinamul Congress on Sunday snubbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s overture and ruled out any possibility of an alliance with the Congress ahead of next year’s LS elections. Party MP and spokesperson Derek O’Brien said Sunday that the Trinamul Congress will go it alone in the polls. TMC general secretary Mukul Roy too endorsed these sentiments.

The Supreme Court has held as illegal and unethical the demand for capitation fees by private technical and medical colleges from students, and has directed the Centre to make laws to put an end to such practices which deny admission to meritorious students from financially weak backgrounds in those institutions.

Wrestling, as expected, regained its place on the Olympic Games sports roster after a vote by International Olympic Committee members in Buenos Aires on Sunday.