Leaders To Be Hanged

Elon Musk said on Friday that Twitter hit an all-time high in usage, hours after reports that the company was seeing a mass exodus of engineers. Uncertainty now hangs over Twitter’s ability to continue normal operations after the company dismissed its executive team and laid off half the workforce in Musk’s first few days in charge.

Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee today left for New Delhi to present himself before he Enforcement Directorate for questioning in a money laundering case. He said he was ready for a probe but asked why BJP leaders weren't probed in the Narada scam.

The BJP-backed Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has filed a case against Rashtriya Janata Dal's Tejashwi Yadav and 18 other leaders from various constituents of the Grand Alliance-led Opposition for protesting without permission amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A BJP leader found hanging from the ceiling of a shop in north Bengal's Hemtabad may have been involved in the alleged "disappearance" of substantial cash from a mini bank, the Trinamool Congress has alleged. Trinamool MP Derek O'Brien met with President Ram Nath Kovind this morning and submitted a letter to him from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...

Soon after the four convicts in the 2012 gangrape and murder of a young medical student, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" or fearless, were hanged this morning, political leaders across the posted strong reactions on social media as some of them called for removal of loopholes in the legal system.

Britain's political leaders were to criss-cross the country on Wednesday's final day of general election campaigning as a key poll showed the outcome could be hanging in the balance.

Union minister Smriti Irani on Sunday said she would leave politics the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to hang his boots, though she asserted that he would be around for "long years".

A seven-year-old was kidnapped from outside her school, gang-raped and left to die in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed anger and demanded that the accused be hanged till death. About 200 km from Mandsaur, at an Indore hospital where the girl is admitted, her parents had visitors today.

Secessionist leaders in Catalonia may call a snap election in an attempt to break the deadlock with Madrid over independence, a senior local politician said on Tuesday, but Spanish authorities made clear that would not be enough.

A huge question mark hangs over whether Sasikala will be replacing O Panneerselvam as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu as the AIADMK holds an internal meeting this afternoon. While a section of the party leaders claim it is the agenda of the meet, another plays down the possibility, saying the meeting is meant to improve the coordination between th...

A column written for ndtv.com by Ashutosh, a senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, triggered protests from the opposition today and an order to appear before the country's top women's rights body, which said he has demeaned women.

The execution of two Bangladeshi opposition leaders for war crimes appears to have cowed rivals of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, but critics said her success comes at the cost of free discourse and the calm is likely to be short-lived.

Two key Bangladesh opposition leaders are set to be hanged within days after losing final appeals to overturn their death sentences, the justice minister today, as authorities completed formalities for their execution.

Bangladesh on Thursday hanged a senior Islamist leader known as the "Butcher of Mirpur", making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country's bloody 1971 war of independence.

BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said it's time to introduce the death penalty for rapists. "What is the government doing to curb rape cases in the capital?" she asked. "The rapists should be hanged, we need tougher laws to stop rapes," she said.

Elon Musk said on Friday that Twitter hit an all-time high in usage, hours after reports that the company was seeing a mass exodus of engineers. Uncertainty now hangs over Twitter’s ability to continue normal operations after the company dismissed its executive team and laid off half the workforce in Musk’s first few days in charge.

Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee today left for New Delhi to present himself before he Enforcement Directorate for questioning in a money laundering case. He said he was ready for a probe but asked why BJP leaders weren't probed in the Narada scam.

The BJP-backed Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has filed a case against Rashtriya Janata Dal's Tejashwi Yadav and 18 other leaders from various constituents of the Grand Alliance-led Opposition for protesting without permission amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A BJP leader found hanging from the ceiling of a shop in north Bengal's Hemtabad may have been involved in the alleged "disappearance" of substantial cash from a mini bank, the Trinamool Congress has alleged. Trinamool MP Derek O'Brien met with President Ram Nath Kovind this morning and submitted a letter to him from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...

Soon after the four convicts in the 2012 gangrape and murder of a young medical student, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" or fearless, were hanged this morning, political leaders across the posted strong reactions on social media as some of them called for removal of loopholes in the legal system.

Britain's political leaders were to criss-cross the country on Wednesday's final day of general election campaigning as a key poll showed the outcome could be hanging in the balance.

Union minister Smriti Irani on Sunday said she would leave politics the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to hang his boots, though she asserted that he would be around for "long years".

A seven-year-old was kidnapped from outside her school, gang-raped and left to die in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed anger and demanded that the accused be hanged till death. About 200 km from Mandsaur, at an Indore hospital where the girl is admitted, her parents had visitors today.

Secessionist leaders in Catalonia may call a snap election in an attempt to break the deadlock with Madrid over independence, a senior local politician said on Tuesday, but Spanish authorities made clear that would not be enough.

A huge question mark hangs over whether Sasikala will be replacing O Panneerselvam as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu as the AIADMK holds an internal meeting this afternoon. While a section of the party leaders claim it is the agenda of the meet, another plays down the possibility, saying the meeting is meant to improve the coordination between th...

A column written for ndtv.com by Ashutosh, a senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, triggered protests from the opposition today and an order to appear before the country's top women's rights body, which said he has demeaned women.

The execution of two Bangladeshi opposition leaders for war crimes appears to have cowed rivals of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, but critics said her success comes at the cost of free discourse and the calm is likely to be short-lived.

Two key Bangladesh opposition leaders are set to be hanged within days after losing final appeals to overturn their death sentences, the justice minister today, as authorities completed formalities for their execution.

Bangladesh on Thursday hanged a senior Islamist leader known as the "Butcher of Mirpur", making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country's bloody 1971 war of independence.

BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said it's time to introduce the death penalty for rapists. "What is the government doing to curb rape cases in the capital?" she asked. "The rapists should be hanged, we need tougher laws to stop rapes," she said.