March 1, 2021 19:46 pm
PARIS, March 1: Judges found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in jail, with two years suspended.
July 9, 2019 04:00 am
KATHMANDU, July 9: The District Court, Kavrepalanchowk on Monday slapped nine years imprisonment on a former senior United Nations official Peter Dalglish for sexually assaulting children in Nepal.
July 3, 2019 05:00 am
KATHMANDU, July 3: The Supreme Court on Tuesday convicted former CPN-UML lawmaker DB Karki for taking bribe a decade ago. The apex court has slapped a six-month imprisonment on Karki.
March 7, 2019 06:00 am
KATHMANDU, March 7: Member of Parliament Resham Lal Chaudhary and 10 others were sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday, in connection with the 2015 Tikapur incident in which seven policemen including SSP Laxman Neupane and a toddler were lynched.
March 27, 2018 17:12 pm
HETAUDA, Mar 27: Speaking during the special hour of today's Provincial Assembly meeting of Province 3 in Hetauda, the PA members demanded death sentence to the guilty in a girl rape case.
July 7, 2017 18:50 pm
A Spanish court said on Friday it has exchanged a 21-month prison sentence handed to football player Lionel Messi for tax fraud last July for a quarter-of-a-million-euro fine.
June 23, 2017 18:49 pm
BARCELONA, Spain, June 23: Lionel Messi has offered to pay an additional fine of 500,000 euros ($558,000) to ensure he avoids a 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud that a judge is expected to suspend, a Spanish state prosecutor said Friday.
May 5, 2017 17:36 pm
NEW DELHI, May 5: India's top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the Indian capital nearly five years ago.
March 12, 2017 16:40 pm
WASHINGTON, March 12: An intruder carrying a backpack was arrested after scaling a fence around the White House and entering the grounds, the U.S. Secret Service said on Saturday, in the latest breach of security at the president’s official residence.
December 10, 2016 09:09 am
RUKUM, Dec 10: An elderly man has been slapped with 8 years of imprisonment and Rs 50,000 fine for raping a minor. Eighty-two-year-old Shiva Ram Khadka of Khara VDC, Ward No 1 was found guilty of raping an 11-year-old girl, who happens to be his granddaughter through a distant relationship.
November 23, 2016 20:30 pm
BARCELONA, Nov 23: Spain's public prosecutor has called for Barcelona soccer player Neymar to be sent to prison for two years for his part in a corruption case over his transfer from Brazilian club Santos to the Liga champions in 2013, said a court filing on Wednesday.
November 15, 2016 17:03 pm
CAIRO, Nov 15: Egypt's Court of Cassation on Tuesday overturned a death sentence against deposed president Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial.
October 19, 2016 10:29 am
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct 19: Saudi Arabia says it has executed a prince who fatally shot another man in a melee, a rare death sentence carried out against a member of the kingdom's extensive royal family.
July 6, 2016 17:45 pm
RAJBIRAJ, July 6: The District Court has sentenced a woman and her daughter to life in prison, with a term of 20 years each, for the murder of her husband former lawmaker and Constituent Assembly (CA) member, Mohammad Sadarul Miya Haque.
June 10, 2016 16:28 pm
NEW DELHI, June 10: Five Indians who raped a Danish tourist when she asked them for directions in New Delhi have been sentenced to life in prison for the attack that highlighted the plague of sexual violence in the country.