The year in Faces

Shera The endearing wild cat and mascot of the 19th Commonwealth Games is more visible than the ugly cranes of the Delhi metro...

Shera
The endearing wild cat and mascot of the 19th Commonwealth Games is more visible than the ugly cranes of the Delhi metro. Having profited from a facelift recently, Shera now wears a t-shirt and looks “younger and robust”. But the real concern is whether the tiger will roar come October, when the Games begin, or will it fall prey to the “inefficiency” of the organising panel

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Pushpam Kumar Sinha, 34
A PhD scholar of Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Sinha hit headlines in October after he was arrested for allegedly molesting and killing a 19-year-old girl from Manipur when she resisted his advances

Sakshi Kapoor, 26
A nursery teacher, Kapoor took the crime graph to unchartered territory when she was arrested for allegedly killing her mother using beer bottles, kitchen knives and screw drivers after she was caught with her lover at her Paschim Vihar flat in June