Prison
- Technology
Ex-Microsoft engineer gets 9 years in prison for stealing $10m
San Francisco: A former Microsoft software engineer has been sentenced to nine years in prison for 18 felonies related to his scheme to defraud Microsoft of more than $10 million in digital value…
- India
‘After 23 years in prison, I am in another jail’
By MAQBOOL MAJID Srinagar: Mirza Nisar Hussain, 40, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was acquitted of all charges and released from a jail in Rajasthan in July last year after 23 years…
- World
13 killed in Afghan prison attack
Kabul: At least 13 people were killed and 42 others injured in an attack on a prison in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city that continued on Monday after it began the previous evening, officials…
- News
The ex-Trump lawyer released from prison
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has been released from prison after a judge ruled that he was sent back to jail in retaliation for writing a tell-all book. Cohen…
- Featured News
Indian prisons may turn into COVID-19 hotspots
Amir Ullah Khan and Nahia Hussain It was after a long struggle that Safoora Zargar got released from jail, on humanitarian grounds. As the pandemic rages on in India, Russia and Brazil…
- NRIs Corner
Dubai sentences Indian cleaner to prison for stealing watches
Dubai: A Dubai court has sentenced an Indian cleaner to one year in jail after he was found guilty of stealing as many as 86 expensive watches, worth over 8.3 million dirhams…
- World
Khaleda Zia completes 2 years in prison
Dhaka: As former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Saturday completed two years in prison, members and activists of her Bangladesh National Party (BNP) were losing hope of her release through legal…
- Syria
Displaced Syrians start new year in abandoned prison
IDLIB: Children play in a prison courtyard, while adults divide a cell inside between several families. Fleeing violence in northwest Syria, they found nowhere else to go. They are among hundreds of thousands…
- World
18 dead in 2nd Honduran prison clash in 48 hrs
Tegucigalpa: At least 18 inmates were killed in a clash between rival gangs inside a jail near the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, just two days after 18 prisoners were killed in a…
- World
Maldives ex-prez sentenced to five years in prison
Male: Maldives former President Abdulla Yameen was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison with a fine of USD 5 million. The Maldives Criminal Court Judge Ali…
- Hollywood
Felicity Huffman freed from prison
Washington: Actor Felicity Huffman has been released from the prison after being behind the bars for 11 days. According to People magazine, the 56-year-old star left the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin,…
- Crime and Accident
Death in prison increased by 5.49 % in 2017 against 2015
New Delhi: The number of deaths in prisons has increased marginally from 1,584 in 2015 to 1,671 in 2017, having surged by 5.49 per cent during 2017, the National Crime Records Bureau…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: 37 knives, contraband seized from Bengaluru prison
Bengaluru: A raid was conducted by the City Crime Branch at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru on Wednesday. According to an official, 37 knives and daggers, cannabis and pipes made for…
- News
Trump takes knife to prison yard
Washington: Washington resembles a bullpen where a verbal shell game is on. This evening Donald Trump fighting his accusers in what has become a brutal cage match took the knife to the…
- News
Nawaz Sharif continues to have AC, TV in prison
Islamabad [Pakistan]: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continues to have an air conditioner and television among other facilities in his prison cell, as recommended by his medical board, the provincial government…
