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Alberta court rules two men guilty in deadly roadside shooting east of CalgaryTwo men, Arthur Penner and Elijah Strawberry, were found guilty of second-degree murder for the August 2024 roadside shooting death of Coli...
Indian national indicted for smuggling individuals from across Canadian border into USA 22-year-old Indian citizen, Shivam, faces charges for his alleged role in a smuggling operation. He is accused of coordinating the illega...
Virginia’s ‘white witch’ Gov. Abigail Spanberger faces conservatives’ backlash; critics say she broke moderate promiseVirginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has faced significant conservative backlash for enacting progressive policies shortly after taking off...
New York woman charged with smuggling Indians from Canada into United StatesA New York woman has been charged with running a cross-border scheme to smuggle migrants — mainly Indian nationals — from Canada into the U...
NITI Aayog bats for reforms in I-T Act with focus on decriminalisationNITI Aayog proposes significant reforms to the Income Tax Act, 2025, including decriminalizing 12 minor offenses and reducing mandatory min...
NITI Aayog proposes direct tax reforms; focuses on decriminalisation and trust-based governanceIn its Tax Policy Working Paper Series - II: Towards India’s Tax Transformation: Decriminalisation and Trust-Based Governance, released on ...
Centre finds death penalty clause in Aparajita Bill 'excessively harsh', Guv sends it back to stateWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has returned the Aparajita Bill to the state government due to serious objections raised by the Centre...
Diddy Trial Verdict: Will Sean be released from jail? Music mogul is found guilty of these charges and will face…Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was found guilty of two prostitution-related charges but acquitted of sex-trafficking and racketeering. The verdict foll...
Australia to punish Nazi salute with minimum one year in jailAustralian lawmakers passed anti-hate legislation on Thursday, introducing minimum sentences for offenses like making a Nazi salute, which ...
Donald Trump signs immigrant detention lawUS President Donald Trump signed his first legislation, the Laken Riley Act, mandating the pre-trial detention of illegal migrants accused ...
Hulu drops former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek’s documentary after sentencing in child pornography caseDespite being acknowledged as a notable feat in investigative journalism rooted in Meek's reporting, a source with knowledge of the situati...
Indian student Jasmeen Kaur in Australia was killed by former boyfriend in an act of revengeDuring the sentencing submissions at the South Australian supreme court, Prosecutor Carmen Matteo SC revealed the horrifying ordeal Jasmeen...
Rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years in prison for drug-trafficking schemeThe rapper was arrested in October 2021 on charges of participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other ...
Rapper Fetty Wap pleads guilty to drug charges, faces at least 5 years in prisonThe 'Trap Queen' rapper was initially arrested last October.
Rapper Casanova pleads guilty in NYC drug conspiracy caseThe rapper was charged in a 2020 indictment against more than a dozen other members of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation gang.
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years for sexual assaultsHarvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, a sight the Hollywood mogul's multitude of accu...
Rape trial: Harvey Weinstein may go to prison for 29 yrs in landmark #MeToo caseBoth victims are expected to be in court to give impact statements before Weinstein is sentenced.
Leaders charged with heinous crimes may be barred from polls for 13 yearsAs of now, there is no restriction on a candidate to contest elections unless he has been convicted by a court.
- Delhi gangrape case: Parliamentary panel hears Home Secretary on anti-rape measures
A Parliamentary Committee is mulling recommending a slew of corrective measures, including mandatory filing of FIRs in cases of sexual assa...
Why mandatory death penalty be not abolished? Supreme Court asksSC asked the Union government why provisions in some laws mandating compulsory death penalty as punishment be not struck down as unconstitu...