Bangladesh court grants bail to jailed photographer
Dhaka, Nov 15 (IANS) A Bangladeshi court on Thursday granted bail to veteran photojournalist Shahidul Alam, who was arrested in August on charges of spreading …
Indian jailed for killing woman in Singapore road crash
Singapore, Nov 15 (IANS) A 48-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to 10 months in jail and banned from driving for eight years for killing …
Swedish Academy sex scandal: Appeals trial opens for jailed Frenchman
Copenhagen, Nov 12 (IANS) A court in Stockholm opened an appeals trial on Monday for a Frenchman who was jailed in October for rape in …
Karnataka’s mining baron Reddy jailed in Ponzi case
Bengaluru, Nov 11 (IANS) Karnataka’s former BJP Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy was arrested and jailed for allegedly shielding two accused persons in …
Karnataka’s mining baron Reddy arrested, jailed in Ponzi case
Bengaluru, Nov 11 (IANS) Karnataka’s former BJP Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy was arrested and jailed for allegedly shielding two accused persons in …
UK police officer jailed for killing Indian-origin shopkeeper
London, Nov 10 (IANS) A police officer in the UK has been jailed for 18 months for causing the death of an Indian-origin shopkeeper by …
Two jailed for Indian origin man’s fatal stabbing in UK
London, Oct 24 (IANS) Two men who were convicted earlier this year of fatally stabbing an Indian-origin man in west London’s Southall suburb have been …
2004 grenade attack: 2 ex-ministers get death, Khaleda’s son jailed for life
Dhaka, Oct 10 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced 19 people, including two former ministers, to death and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son …
French photographer in Nobel scandal jailed for rape
Stockholm, Oct 1 (IANS) A French photographer at the centre of a sexual abuse and financial misconduct scandal that led to the postponement of 2018 …
ED to question jailed Dubai-based businessman to probe 26/11 funding
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate is planning to question Dubai-based hawala operator, Naval Kishore Kapoor, who is currently lodged in Tihar Central …
Indonesia terror cell leader jailed for 11 years
Jakarta, Sep 13 (IANS) An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced the provincial chief of a radical Islamist group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State …
Telangana Congress leader jailed in human trafficking case
Hyderabad, Sep 11 (IANS) A Hyderabad court on Tuesday sent Congress leader T. Jaya Prakash Reddy to judicial custody for 14 days in a human …
Ex-Trump adviser George Papadopoulos jailed in Russia inquiry
Washington, Sep 8 (IANS) Former Donald Trump adviser whose remarks in a London pub sparked the US inquiry into possible collusion with Russia has been …
Indian-origin man jailed for making prank calls to Singapore Police
Singapore, Sep 6 (IANS) An Indian-origin “serial prank caller” in Singapore who repeatedly made nuisance calls to the police, despite being jailed for the same …
US woman jailed for smuggling cocaine in heels
Canberra, Sep 6 (IANS) A US woman, who was found with cocaine stuffed inside her high heels and other belongings in her luggage, was jailed …
Man jailed for not sharing Facebook password
London, Sep 1 (IANS) A British man suspected in the murder of a school girl has been sent to jail for refusing to share his …
Non-BJP leaders will be jailed before 2019 election: Lalu
Ranchi, Aug 29 (IANS) Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of pushing the country towards Emergency, RJD leader Lalu Prasad on Wednesday alleged that the government …
Woman jailed for leaking secret US government report
Washington, Aug 24 (IANS) A woman who pleaded guilty to leaking to media a secret US government report about alleged Russia’s attempts to hack the …
Maruti Suzuki workers to financially help kin of jailed ex-staffers
Gurugram, Aug 22 (IANS) Maruti Suzuki’s Gurugram plant workers will on Thursday hand over a total Rs 45.5 lakh to the families of 13 former …
Man jailed for breaking into Buckingham Palace
London, Aug 4 (IANS) A homeless man who trespassed into the grounds of Buckingham Palace before damaging a glass display cabinet and falling asleep on …
Indonesia urged to release jailed teen rape survivor
Ambon (Indonesia), Aug 1 (IANS) Human rights non-profits have begun a campaign for the release of a 15-year-old Indonesian girl raped by her brother, after …
Palestinian teenager jailed for slapping Israeli soldiers released
Jerusalem, July 29 (IANS) Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, convicted for assaulting Israeli soldiers, was released on Sunday morning after serving an eight-month jail term, prison …
Indian-origin landlord jailed for fire deaths in UK
London, July 19 (IANS) An Indian-origin landlord in the UK who failed to fit smoke alarms inside a house owned by him leading to the …
Bail plea of two jailed Orthodox priests dismissed
Thiruvalla (Kerala) July 19 (IANS) A magisterial court near here on Thursday denied bail to the two jailed Malankara Orthodox Church priests named in a …
MP couple jailed for bribery
Jabalpur, July 18 (IANS) A District Court here has jailed a woman revenue Officer and her husband for four years and fined them Rs 4,000 …
Kerala TV actress jailed for printing counterfeit notes
Kollam, July 5 (IANS) Kerala TV serial actress Surya and her mother and sister have been arrested for printing counterfeit currency at their residence here …
5 Indian-origin men jailed for killing Sikh man
London, June 26 (IANS) Five Indian-origin men have been jailed here after being found guilty of killing a Sikh man in a vicious and “shocking …
Spanish king’s brother-in-law jailed for corruption
Madrid, June 18 (IANS) The brother-in-law of Spain’s King Felipe VI entered prison on Monday to begin serving a jail sentence of five years and …
Pro-independence Hong Kong activist jailed for 6 years
Hong Kong, June 11 (IANS) A pro-independence Hong Kong activist was sentenced to six years in prison for his involvement in street riots during protests …
Trump announces release of US citizen jailed in Venezuela
Washington, May 27 (IANS) US President DOnald Trump on Saturday said an American citizen jailed in Venezuela since 2016 had been released. “Good news about …
IT officer, wife jailed in disproportionate assets case
Thane (Maharashtra), May 25 (IANS) A former Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, his wife and a close relative have been sentenced to jail in a …
Ex-diplomat jailed for 3 years for passing information to ISI
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) A court here on Saturday sentenced former Indian diplomat Madhuri Gupta to three years in jail for passing on sensitive …
Mexican cartel leader jailed for 12 years
Mexico City, May 13 (IANS) A federal judge condemned a cartel leader to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty of drug trafficking and …
Jailed Malaysian politician to get royal pardon
Kuala Lumpur, May 11 (IANS) Newly-elected Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday said the countrys monarch is willing to grant a full pardon to …
Ex-head of Chinese insurance firm jailed for 18 years
Beijing, May 10 (IANS) Wu Xiaohui, the former chairman and CEO of China’s Anbang Insurance Group, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for …
Could be attacked or jailed, says Hardik after security withdrawn
Ahmedabad, April 26 (IANS) With his ‘Y’ category security cover being withdrawn by the Union Home Affairs Ministry, Patel quota stir leader Hardik Patel on …
5 men jailed for sex attack in Spain
Madrid, April 26 (IANS) Five men accused of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman during the running of the bulls festival in Spain’s Pamplona were convicted of …
Jailed Egyptian photoreporter to receive UN press freedom prize
New York, April 23 (IANS/AKI) A photojournalist who has been in prison for nearly five years since his arrest for covering a demonstration in Cairo …
2015 Paris attack suspect jailed in Belgium
Brussels, April 23 (IANS) Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris terror attacks, was jailed in Belgium on Monday for 20 years …
Ex-911 operator jailed in US for hanging up
New York, April 19 (IANS) A former 911 operator in Houston, who hung up on people calling for emergency services, was sentenced to 10 days …
Trump urges Turkey to release jailed American pastor
Washington, April 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has called on Turkey to release an American pastor being held prisoner in that country that accused …