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Man pleads guilty to killing homeless people in Las Vegas

Man pleads guilty to killing homeless people in Las Vegas
Published on Feb 25, 2025 04:53 AM IST

Sexual harassment of badminton players: Pocso court awards jail terms to son and father

Additional district judge Vijendra Tripathi, who is special judge (Pocso Act), pronounced the verdict and ordered the cops to take the duo into custody and send them to prison. (Pic for representation)
Updated on Dec 07, 2024 07:46 AM IST

Manipur bans renaming of places, makes it punishable by up to 3 years in jail

Manipur chief minster N Biren Singh. (File photo)
Updated on Mar 04, 2024 10:01 PM IST

Register live-ins or face jail term up to 3 months, says UCC bill

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami tables the Uniform Civil Code in state assembly, in Dehradun (ANI)
Updated on Feb 07, 2024 09:38 AM IST

MP man gets 170 years in prison over fraud. It is not the longest in India

A session court in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh has awarded 170 years of rigorous imprisonment to a man for duping 34 people. (Agencies/Representative use)
Updated on Jun 30, 2023 06:30 AM IST

Uttarakhand: US Nagar police book five under anti-conversion law

Uttarakhand: US Nagar police book five under anti-conversion law
Updated on Apr 08, 2023 01:24 PM IST

CBI court frames charges against Atiq, son in realtor kidnapping case

The court framed charges under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 364 A which concerns kidnapping or abduction. Under this section, the convicted person/s can be slapped with life imprisonment or a prison term that may extend up to 10 years. (HT file)
Updated on Apr 08, 2023 12:04 AM IST

Bihar YouTuber held under NSA over fake migrant video

The Madurai crime branch had registered a case against Bihar YouTuber Manish Kashyap and a special police team went to Bihar to bring him to Madurai. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 12:28 AM IST

South Korea's discredited ex-president Park freed after about 5 years in prison

Park's release comes as her old party, the main opposition conservative People Power Party, and Moon's Democratic Party are in a tight presidential race.
Published on Dec 31, 2021 12:58 PM IST

A draconian step in Kerala

The old Kerala law — Section 118(D) of Kerala Police Act — suffered from same problems as Section 66A and was struck down by the top court. There is little to suggest the new one is on a more sound legal footing.
Published on Nov 22, 2020 11:39 PM IST

Match-fixing now a criminal offence in Sri Lanka

Representative image: Players of Sri Lanka cricket team celebrate after the fall of a wicket during a match.
Updated on Nov 12, 2019 11:40 AM IST

CPCC seizes 1,100 kg biomed waste from Chandigarh scrap dealer

Biomedical waste recovered during a raid at Makhan Majra village in Chandigarh. The waste was found in bags with markings of Mohali-based Ivy Hospital. Other bags had barcodes registered in Haryana.
Updated on Nov 11, 2019 11:48 PM IST

One held in Kerala’s Kozhikode for pronouncing ‘talaq’ thrice to divorce his wife

The Parliament had passed the bill last month criminalizing the practice of instant triple talaq. Despite the new law, the practice is still continuing in many parts of the country, including Kerala.
Updated on Aug 16, 2019 08:51 PM IST

Assaulter can’t be held guilty if death is due to lack of treatment: Bombay high court

The Bombay high court has ruled that a person, who assaults another man or woman, cannot be held responsible for causing the death if death is due to improper management of the injury.
Updated on Jun 18, 2019 12:50 PM IST

Two years ago, she had lost belongings in similar incident

When Asha Mehra travels in an auto-rickshaw, she ensures that she sits in the middle of the seat, does not use her mobile phone and keep her handbag strapped firmly around her hand.
Published on Mar 18, 2019 05:29 AM IST

Fake encounter murder case: ‘Perverse’ govt order to let out guilty cops struck down by HC

Family of Mumbai policeman, Pradeep Suryavanshi who was convicted recently in the Lakhan Bhaiya fake encounter case
Published on Mar 07, 2019 12:34 AM IST

Myanmar court rejects appeal by two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in jail

Wa Lone, 32, (right) and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were convicted by a lower court in September in a landmark case that has raised questions about Myanmar’s progress towards democracy and sparked an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates.
Updated on Jan 11, 2019 12:54 PM IST

Bangladesh’s ex-PM Khaleda Zia jailed for 7 years in corruption case

A special court in Bangladesh’s capital has sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to seven years in jail involving a charity fund named after her late husband.
Updated on Oct 29, 2018 12:57 PM IST

Review: The Republic of Beliefs by Kaushik Basu

A protest in New Delhi in January 2014: Kaushik Basu suggests that change can come only if the beliefs of citizens and the state converge. In the context of violence against women, patriarchal restrictions on women’s mobility are likely to derail justice in cases of sexual assault.
Updated on Sep 28, 2018 07:50 PM IST

Punjab-origin schizophrenic man jailed in UK for murder

Sukhwinder Singh
Updated on Jul 01, 2018 12:22 PM IST

Katrina Kaif prayed for Salman Khan at Siddhivinayak before verdict. See pics

Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Sonakshi Sinha during a press conference of Da-Bangg The Tour Pune in Pune.
Updated on Apr 08, 2018 02:37 PM IST