The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report Tuesday that a record-number 232 journalists are imprisoned worldwide and that Turkey has the highest number with 49 journalists behind bars. The total is 53 more than the tally last year and is the highest number since the New York-based organization began conducting worldwide surveys in 1990. ...
09:39 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Srinagar: A radical Kashmiri women's group on Friday held an anti-US protest against the imprisonment and alleged sexual assault on Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving a prison term in an American jail. Dukhtaran-e-Millat members led by its leader Aasiya Andrabi raised anti-US slogans and burned an American flag to protest against the alleged sexual abuse of the Pakistani born scientist, who is serving 86 years prison-term in the...
07:03 PM, Jan 27, 2012
M L Kak calls this personal account of his 40-plus years in journalism, much of it spent in Jammu and Kashmir by a quirk of fate, an "untold story of Emergency". The subtitle is somewhat misleading. But the book is readable and informative and at times even racy. Although coming from a family of journalists, Kak was an unwilling entrant into the profession. But once he chose it, he embraced...
02:40 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Tunis: A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, in absentia, to 35 years in jail each after finding them guilty of theft and unlawful possession of cash and jewellery. Reading out the verdict and sentence in the courtroom after just one day of deliberation, the judge also ruled Ben Ali and his wife would have to pay fines totalling 91 million Tunisian...
01:35 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Karachi: Pakistan's police presented chargesheets against six members of a paramilitary force on Friday for the killing of an unarmed man last week, a government lawyer said, in a rare rebuke to the country's powerful military. The incident in the southern city of Karachi was caught on videotape and broadcast on television channels nationwide, fueling anger against the security forces already under pressure since Osama bin Laden's killing last month...
07:53 AM, Jun 18, 2011
Wagah Border: After spending 27 years in a Pakistani jail for allegedly spying for India, Gopal Das stepped across the Wagah Border on Thursday. Gopal Das was 22 years old, when he was jailed in Pakistan 27 years ago. On Thursday, a few months ahead of his scheduled release, Gopal Das walked across the border with his small bag - all that he can call possessions after almost three decades...
09:24 AM, Apr 08, 2011
New York: Poetry by imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is coming out in the US. Graywolf Press announced that "June Fourth Elegies" will be published in 2012. It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion handed down last year after he co-authored an appeal for human rights and political reform. The title...
05:18 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Beijing: Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has asked his wife to travel to Norway to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, she told Reuters on Tuesday. "Xiaobo told me he hopes I can go to Norway to receive the prize for him," Liu Xia said by telephone from her house where she is under virtual house arrest. "I think it will be very difficult," she added, when asked if she...
01:43 PM, Oct 12, 2010
Washington: Osama bin Laden's former cook, who played a key role in the al-Qaeda chief's escape from Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in the US, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail by military jurors. However, he could be released much sooner under a plea bargain. The hearing of the Sudan-based 51-year-old Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi took place in a military commission courtroom at the US naval station in...
03:53 PM, Aug 12, 2010
Vijay K Taneja has been sentenced to seven years in prison for $33 mn fraud. ...
11:06 AM, Feb 01, 2009
The man's son described him as having a 'Jekyll and Hyde' personality. ...
12:31 AM, Nov 26, 2008
Anup Patel was arrested over theft of information from 19,000 credit cards. ...
12:05 PM, Oct 29, 2008
Mumbai: Middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma will lead Mumbai in the absence of regular skipper Ajit Agarkar in their Ranji Trophy Group A match against hosts Hyderabad from November 24-27. Agarkar has been ruled out of the game following an injury. The team: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ramesh Powar, Aditya Tare, Suryakumar Yadav, Avishkar Salvi, Kaustubh Pawar, Abhishek Nayar, Praful Waghela, Hiken Shah, Iqbal Abdullah, Kshemal Waingankar, Shardul Thakur, Ankit Chavan, Shoaib...
01:42 AM, Jul 22, 2008
Karachi: The Pakistan team management is considering the option of promoting experienced all-rounder Abdul Razzaq to number three position in the batting order if the opening pair of Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shahzad continue to fail in the World Cup. Well placed sources in the team have said that the proposal to send Razzaq up the order has been discussed but the management had decided to mull further on it...
06:41 PM, Dec 27, 2007
An Indian origin couple in UK was jailed for lying that the husband had died and claiming £600,000 from insurance firms. ...
01:16 PM, Dec 10, 2006
With Dehati's swearing-in Koda's Council of Ministers reached the constitutionally prescribed strength. ...
09:58 PM, Nov 07, 2006
CBI arrested two persons who spoke to UP ganster Sundar Bhati posing as Union Minister of State Manik Rao Gavit. ...
02:47 PM, Aug 28, 2006
The CBI gave a clean chit to Gavit after a test showed his voice did not match the one in the report. ...
11:32 AM, Aug 27, 2006
The CBI on Thursday submitted a report to the Government on charge against Union Minister Manikrao Gavit. ...
09:16 PM, Aug 24, 2006
CBI is probing the alleged links between Union Minister of State for Home Manikrao Gavit and a jailed mafia gangster. ...
08:40 PM, Aug 20, 2006
