Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands, but they failed.

In the court room at The Hague last year Mladic appeared to have lost none of his visceral dislike of his enemies. CNN's Nic Robertson said he saw the defendant drawing his finger across his throat, "a gesture aimed directly at at some of the Srebrenica widows sitting in front of me, whose husbands he is accused of killing."Kombarana Ganapathy Bopaiah, three-time BJP MLA, was on Friday appointed pro tem Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly by the governor.

Kombarana Ganapathy Bopaiah was appointed pro tem speaker of the Karnataka Assembly by Governor Vajubhai Vala ahead of Saturday's floor test.

Congress immediately objected to the appointment of Bopaiah, a three-time BJP MLA. "The pro tem speaker, by convention, is the most senior MLA. We are asking for convention to be followed", Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said at a press conference.

The most senior MLA in the state Assembly is Ravi Deshpande, but he was ignored.

Bopaiah earlier served as Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly from 2009 to 2013.

In May 2011, the Supreme Court quashed the then speaker Bopaiah's decision to disqualify 16 MLAs ahead of the no-confidence motion in October