Killings

Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte will 'die first' than face ICC probe over extra-judicial killings in drugs war

More than 6,000, mostly poor, drug suspects have been killed during the campaign, according to the government, but human rights groups say the death toll is considerably higher

Sri Lanka prison chief Emil Lamahewage arrested over 2012 Welikada Prison riot in Colombo; 27 people had died in incident

Sri Lankan police Thursday arrested a top prison official over a massacre of 27 inmates that became an icon of grave rights abuses under former president Mahinda Rajapakse

J&K deputy CM Nirmal Singh condemns militant attack in Srinagar, says separatism to end soon in state

Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh Saturday condemned the killing of a policeman in a militant attack in Srinagar, and asserted that terrorism and separatism sponsored by Pakistan would come to an end soon

Blue Whale Challenge: Ravi Shankar Prasad says games provoking youths to commit suicide 'totally unacceptable'

Games like Blue Whale are "completely unacceptable", Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday.

Russian officials investigate claims of anti-gay killings in Chechnya

Russian officials are actively investigating claims of a purge of gay men in Chechnya, the media reported on Friday.

Bangladesh terror attacks: Not just bombs and AK-47s, machetes can cause enough havoc

But who will tame the minds that wield the machetes? It is a dark, remorseless world that the terrorists roam. There seems little hope that they can be made to see the light and lay down their machetes.

Eight relatives dead in Ohio 'execution style' killings

Eight members of the same family were shot to death execution-style in four homes in Pike County, Ohio

RSS activist murder case: CPM leader, P Jayarajan granted bail

A court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to CPM leader and former MLA P Jayarajan, an accused in the case related to the murder of an RSS activist in 2014 being investigated by CBI.

Dalit student hacked to death for intercaste marriage in Tamil Nadu

A student from the lowest Dalit caste was hacked to death and his wife critically injured in southern India in a suspected "honour killing" by relatives angered by their marriage, police said Monday.

6 killings in 22 days: Kashmir's Sopore lives in fear as mysterious killings rise

Almost all the families, whose loved ones have been killed in recent days, have either blamed the state government for failing to protect them or "Indian agencies" in order to spread fear in the town which has remained one of the last standing citadels of resistance in Kashmir Valley.