Indian jailed for molesting boy in Dubai
Dubai, Sep 14 (IANS) An Indian man has been sentenced to six months in jail to be followed by deportation for sexually abusing a five-year-old …
How the mighty Akasha Syndicate was ensnared by DEA and jailed (IANS Exclusive)
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) At the very kernel of the Vicky Goswami-Ali Punjani drug bust is the deadly and dangerous Akasha family with strong …
‘Murder 2’ actor Prashant Narayanan jailed
Kannur (Kerala) Sep 8 (IANS) Bollywood actor and Keralite Prashant Narayanan has been arrested and is in jail following his alleged involvement in a cheating …
Indian-origin man jailed in Singapore for sexual assault
Singapore, Sep 3 (IANS) An Indian-origin homeless man in Singapore has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman. District Judge …
Myanmar filmmaker jailed for FB post criticizing military
Yangon, Aug 29 (IANS) A Myanmar filmmaker was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for criticizing the country’s military on Facebook, sparking criticism …
Jailed gangster marries air hostess at Jodhpur temple
Jaipur, Aug 27 (IANS) It was an unusual wedding, which took place under tight police security in Rajasthan. Jailed gangster Vikramjeet Singh exchanged wedding vows …
Jailed Australian Cardinal’s fate to be decided next week
Melbourne, Aug 15 (IANS) An Australian court on Thursday announced that it would hand down its judgment on Cardinal George Pell, who has been convicted …
Jailed Kurdish writer wins Australian award
Canberra, Aug 12 (IANS) An Iranian-Kurdish journalist and writer, who has spent the past six years at a migrant detention centre, was on Monday named …
Jailed Australian Cardinal compares plight to Jesus’
Canberra, Aug 10 (IANS) Australian Cardinal George Pell, who was recently sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two children more than 20 …
S. Korean doomsday cult leader jailed for 6 years
Seoul, July 31 (IANS) The leader of a South Korean doomsday cult has been sentenced to six years in jail for holding her followers captive …
China’s first ‘cyber dissident’ jailed for 12 years
Beijing, July 29 (IANS) A court here on Monday sentenced China’s first “cyber-dissident”, whose website reported on human rights, to 12 years in prison on …
Man jailed for racist remarks on Indian in Singapore
Singapore, July 27 (IANS) A man in Singapore has been sentenced to four-week jail and fined 1,000 Singaporean dollars for racist remarks, insulting an Indian …
Indonesia pardons woman jailed for recording harassment
Jakarta, July 25 (IANS) Indonesia’s Parliament on Thursday approved a pardon for a woman sentenced to jail for recording a call with her boss to …
Jailed Arun Saha centrifugal force in fixing rating agencies at IL&FS (IANS Exclusive)
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The rating agencies fiasco viz IL&FS is now common knowledge. Triple A rated IL&FS Group entities enjoyed best of credit …
Jailed Saravana Bhavan owner can be sent to private hospital: Madras HC
Chennai, July 16 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Tuesday allowed Saravana Bhavan owner P. Rajagopal, who is undergoing a life term for murder, to …
Man jailed in Uttarakhand for offensive posts against CM
Dehradun, July 15 (IANS) A man has been sent to jail in Uttarakhand for posting alleged offensive and objectionable posts against Chief Minister Trivendra Singh …
Jailed gang rape accused seeks admission in DU, gets rejected on low scores
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) A 20-year-old gang rape accused lodged in Tihar Jail is trying get admission in B.A. Sanskrit (honours) course in Delhi …
Indian-origin banker jailed for cheating clients of $10 million
Singapore, July 5 (IANS) An Indian-origin banker has been sentenced to 13 years in jail in Singapore after he pleaded guilty to 20 forgery and …
Indian-origin woman jailed for assaulting Singapore police officer
Singapore, June 26 (IANS) A 21-year-old Indian-origin woman was jailed for three months in Singapore on Wednesday for shoving a policeman in the chest and …
Brazil’s SC rejects appeal for jailed ex-President’s release
Brasilia, June 26 (IANS) Brazil’s Supreme Court has rejected two habeas corpus requests by the country’s ex-President – who has been imprisoned on a corruption …
Indian jailed for attacking Singapore police officer
Singapore, June 12 (IANS) An Indian has been charged in Singapore with attempting to assault a police officer and causing annoyance to the public in …
Delhi mother-son duo, restaurateur jailed, fined for power theft
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Three persons, including a mother-son duo and a restaurant owner, have been convicted of power theft in the national capital …
Indian-origin woman jailed for killing stepdaughter
Washington, June 4 (IANS) An Indian-origin woman has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison for strangling her 9-year-old stepdaughter in a bathtub …
Fraudster who posed as Saudi prince jailed in US
Washington, June 2 (IANS) A US man who posed as a Saudi prince for nearly 30 years has been finally exposed and jailed for 18 …
Turkey frees ex-NASA scientist jailed over terror charges
Ankara, May 30 (IANS) A former NASA scientist sentenced in Turkey to over seven years in prison on terrorism charges was suddenly freed without an …
Rohingya killings: Myanmar frees jailed soldiers early
Naypyitaw, May 27 (IANS) Myanmar has granted an early release to seven soldiers, jailed for killing 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 …
Ex-CIA officer jailed for spying for China
Washington, May 18 (IANS) A former CIA officer has been jailed for 20 years for disclosing military secrets to a Chinese agent in return for …
Poet, lawyer jailed in fresh crackdown in Bangladesh: HRW
New York, May 17 (IANS) Bangladesh authorities made a series of new arrests in their crackdown on the right to free speech, Human Rights Watch …
Chelsea Manning freed after jailed for contempt
Washington, May 10 (IANS) Former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after spending two months behind bars for refusing to …
Jailed Reuters journalists freed in Myanmar (2nd Lead)
Yangon, May 7 (IANS) Two Reuters journalists, who were imprisoned for their reporting of a massacre carried out by Myanmar’s military forces against the Rohingya …
Jailed Reuters journalists freed in Myanmar
Yangon, May 7 (IANS) Two Reuters journalists, who were jailed after reporting a massacre carried out by Myanmar’s military forces against the Rohingya Muslim minority, …
Jailed Reuters journalists walk free
Myanmar, May 7 (IANS) Jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed on Tuesday in Myanmar, after a presidential amnesty. The pair …
Indian-origin man jailed for killing man in UK car crash
London, May 4 (IANS) An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to six years in prison in the UK for causing a death of another man …
Assange jailed in UK for bail norm breach
London, May 1 (IANS) A British court on Wednesday sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in prison for violating bail conditions in 2012 …
Cricketer found guily of rape, jailed for 5 years
London, April 30 (IANS) Australia-born cricketer Alex Hepburn was slapped a five-year sentence on Tuesday for raping a woman he found “dozing” in his teammate’s …
Farmers not to be jailed for not paying debt: Rahul
Tikamgarh, April 30 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi here on Tuesday described ‘NYAY’ as a scheme that would change the economic situation of the country …
Bangladeshi worker jailed in Dubai for molesting Indian minor
Dubai, April 30 (IANS) A Dubai court has sentenced a Bangladeshi worker to six months in jail for molesting an Indian minor girl, the media …
2 Indians jailed in Dubai for stealing juice boxes
Dubai, April 16 (IANS) A court in Dubai sentenced two Indians and a Pakistani to six months in jail and asked them to pay a …
Indian-origin man jailed for bursting crackers
Singapore, April 12 (IANS) An Indian-origin man has been jailed for three weeks in Singapore and also fined for setting off fireworks near housing blocks …
Gangrape accused jailed for 20 years in Jharkhand
Ranchi, April 5 (IANS) A court in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district on Friday awarded 20 year imprisonment to two persons found guilty of gang-raping a girl. …
Bangladeshi jailed for passing sensitive info to BSF
Dhaka, April 1 (IANS) A mobile court in Bangladesh has sentenced a man to two years in prison for taking photos of Border Guard Bangladesh …