Kabul [Afghanistan], January 26 (ANI): Taliban has jailed a popular professor at Kabul University for criticizing the outfit, shot at women opposing restrictions on their rights, and publicly given Afghan males haircuts for the New Year, reported a Canada-based Thinktank, International Forum
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 25 (ANI): Samajwadi Party has fielded senior party leader Azam Khan, who is currently lodged in Sitapur Jail, from Rampur assembly seat.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 14 (ANI): Mumbai Police Cyber Cell has arrested a person from Bengaluru for demanding a ransom of Rs 2 crores from a Mumbai-based builder by impersonating a member of jailed gangster Ravi Pujari's gang, said the police.
Birmingham [UK], January 4 (ANI): Pakistan-origin British national and drug dealer Aqib Ali has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by Birmingham Crown Court for "operating a county lines network of drugs" in Birmingham and Warwickshire.
Paris [France], December 28 (ANI): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday urged Beijing to release Zhang Zhan, one of the first of China's "citizen journalists" who was jailed for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], December 18 (ANI): Uttarakhand government has increased a hike in the 'Andolankari pension' for those who were jailed or injured while participating in agitations for the formation of the state in 2000.
Patna (Bihar) [India], December 18 (ANI): A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Patna on Friday sentenced three Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists to life imprisonment and jailed five others for ten years in connection with a blast at the Bodhgaya temple comple
New York [US], December 18 (ANI): Authorities in Vietnam must immediately release four activists jailed this week for spreading anti-State propaganda, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI) Facing increasing pressure from Opposition parties to quit over his jailed son, who is accused of running over farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni on Thursday joined office and held department related me
Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 15 (ANI): Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra 'Teni' on Wednesday lost his temper and hurled abuses at a journalist when asked about charges against his son Ashish, who is in jail in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incide
Hong Kong, December 13 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 13-month imprisonment on Monday for participating in last year's banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil.
New York [US], December 10 (ANI): As many as 293 media workers were put behind bars globally in 2021, said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).