New Delhi - An Indian court on Monday sentenced to death two taxi drivers found guilty of the murder of an Australian woman tourist in Delhi in 2004, news reports said.
The two taxi drivers - Ashish Kumar and Jyotish Prasad - were given the sentences by a trial court for the rape and murder of 59- year-old Dawn Emelie Griggs, NDTV television channel reported.
Griggs, who had come to India from Hong Kong on March 17, 2004, was found brutally murdered near the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
Melbourne, Aug. 12 : Four wildlife groups -- The Australian Society for Kangaroos, the Wildlife Protection Association of Australia, the Kangaroo Protection Coalition and Kangaroo Defenders – have warned that kangaroos are on the brink of extinction in three states -- New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland.
Melbourne, Aug 12 : The parents of nine-year-old boy Yadav Munohur of Indian origin, who went missing last Thursday, have not given up hope of finding him and claimed that he was still alive. Yadav went missing after he ran away from home for being stopped by his mother from going to play in a nearby park.
Sydney, Aug. 12 : Singapore Airlines has been named the world''s best airline in the 2008 Airline of the Year awards. Cathay Pacific and Qantas came second and third respectively in the annual survey.
Sydney, Aug 12 : If a senior Pakistan journalist is to be believed, US President George Bush has given a royal snub to his old time “anti-terror ally” and Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf, by repeatedly failing to respond to the latter’s phone calls over the past few days.
Singapore - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was set to kick off his visit Tuesday in Singapore by laying a wreath in remembrance of Allied soldiers who died in South-East Asia during the two world wars.
