Gotabaya Rajapaksa suggests building prefabricated prisons to check over-crowding
Read moreOpposition politicos and irresponsible social media blatantly misinterpreted police and court decisions on the release of Riaj Bathiudeen, brother controversial former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, says Sugeeswara Senadhidra
Read moreOctober 9 (India Today) - Aman in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda beheaded his wife on Friday over suspicion of infidelity. He then carried her severed head to the police station to surrender himself. A video of the incident has also gone viral on social media. The horrifying incident came to light in the Banda region of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. According...
Read morePakistan, September 6 (Daily Times Monitor) - A renowned social activist and a journalist from Gwadar, Shaheena Shaheen, was on Saturday shot dead by unidentified men in Turbat, a private TV channel reported. According to police, she was killed at a housing quarter in Turbat and unidentified men left her body at a hospital. Shaheena Shaheen was also an editor...
Read moreAugust 27 (SkyNews) - A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's deadliest shooting has been sentenced to life without parole. It's the longest prison term handed out in New Zealand's legal history, and a penalty never before used in the country. Brenton Tarrant's sentence follows three days of emotionally charged statements from his victims in a...
Read moreBid to portray tough image ahead of November election fails
Read moreJune 30 (India Today) - A bomb threat was made to the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Colaba and the Taj Lands End hotel in Bandra in Mumbai, Maharashtra from Pakistan on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. The caller, who identified himself as a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit, threatened to blow-up the two hotels in...
Read moreMinneapolis, May 30 (Reuters) - The white former Minneapolis police officer shown in video footage using his knee to pin an unarmed black man’s neck to the street was charged with murder on Friday in the man’s death, an incident that has unleashed four nights of violent protests. Derek Chauvin, who was dismissed from the police department with three fellow...
Read moreSingapore, May 20 (Reuters) - A judge in Singapore has sentenced a man to death via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, one of just two known cases where a capital punishment verdict has been delivered remotely. Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, was told on Friday he would be hanged for masterminding a 2011 heroin transaction,...
Read moreMay 16 (NBC News) - A cybercriminal gang that hacked a major entertainment law firm claims it will release information on President Donald Trump if it doesn’t receive $42 million in ransom. The group, a known criminal enterprise, didn’t offer any proof it had information compromising to Trump. It did, however, release a large set of stolen files from the...
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