After being held hostage by Maoists for 12 days, abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon is expected to be freed by this evening when he will be handed over to the two mediators handpicked by the Maoists.
Close on the heels of the Norway child custody row, a similar case has come to light in Sweden where an NRI woman has claimed that her son is being held in foster care on charges of neglect and sought help from Indian authorities.
The mediators representing Maoists today said abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon would be released tomorrow after nearly two weeks of captivity.
A youth was today sentenced to death by a local court for beheading a girl student in a college campus here on April 28 last year.
The agreement on the release of Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon may end up serving the long-term interests of Maoists, said people close to the developments.
Ejaz Kaiser reports.
Residents say life hasn't been the same since the collector's abduction by Naxalites.
Ejaz Kaiser reports.
Where it all happened
After nearly two weeks of hectic parleys, abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon is set to be released today. Maoists had said Menon would be handed over to the mediators "in front of the people" at Tadmetla in south Bastar.
HT reports.
With the US police yet to arrest the killers of Boston University student K Seshadri, Odisha government today said it would request the Centre to take up the matter at the highest level to expedite the investigation into the case.
A day after Maoists' mediators announced that abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon will be released within 48 hours, on or before May 2, the Chhattisgarh government said today it was hopeful that the ten-day hostage crisis will come to an end and the IAS officer would be freed by tomorrow.
Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled.
To preserve Jorasanko Thakurbari, the ancestral house of Rabindranath Tagore in north Kolkata, the West Bengal government is planning to convert it into a museum.
'We don't want to keep Menon anymore,' says two-page letter signed by rebel interlocutors.
Ejaz Kaiser reports.
BreakthroughMediators resumed talks today for a consensus on the release of abducted Sukma district collector, as Chhatisgarh CM Raman Singh discussed the new "unreported" demands with top officials set by the Maoists.
Bihar's deputy inspector general of police Raveendran Sankaran, who hails from Tamil Nadu, is donning the grease paint for a Bhojpuri flick, never mind the accent.
Ruchir Kumar reports.