Even before the state trial began last month for the former police officers charged with fatally beating Tyre Nichols in Memphis, the defense notched an important victory. The officers’ lawyers persuaded the judge to seat a jury from the area around Chattanooga, Tenn., hundreds of miles from where surveillance and body cameras captured the officers […]
Mahendra Patel, an Indian-origin engineer, has been granted bail in a high-profile ‘attempt to kidnap’ case in Georgia. After spending 49 days at the Cobb County Jail in Georgia, Indian-origin engineer Mahendra Patel was granted a $10,000 bond on Tuesday in the high-profile Walmart ‘attempt to kidnap’ case in which Patel was ‘wrongly’ arrested and […]
Nina Bahinskaya, 73, poses for a photo holding a flag that became the symbole of the opposition at an entrance of her apartment building in Minsk, Belarus (Image: AP) TALLINN: Authorities in Belarus have opened a criminal case against the 78-year-old activist who became the face of the country’s pro-democracy protests in 2020. Retired geologist […]
(Picture Courtesy: Facebook) As jury selection begins today in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, all eyes are on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where the first steps of a high-stakes legal process are unfolding.Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to charges […]
Mumbai’s Charkop Police have registered a rape case against actor Ajaz Khan following a complaint by an actress who alleged that he sexually assaulted her under the pretext of marriage. The case has been filed under sections 64, 64(2)(M), 69, and 74 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and investigations are currently underway, according to […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) CLEVELAND: Ohio authorities said they’ve solved the more than decade-old fatal stabbing of a Cleveland Clinic nurse, announcing recent murder charges against her former divorce attorney who already served jail time for lying to police during the investigation. Friday’s arrest of 51-year-old Gregory J Moore marks the latest twist in a cold […]
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens (Image: AP) ATLANTA: After leading Atlanta out of the COVID-19 pandemic and a coinciding crime spike, Mayor Andre Dickens believes he deserves a second term as the city soon hosts its most high-profile event since the 1996 Olympics. Dickens recently launched his reelection campaign with $1.4 million in the bank and […]
OTTAWA: Police in Vancouver have released images of a vehicle and two persons suspected of vandalising the Khalsa Diwan Society Gurdwara on Ross Street last week.The suspects were reportedly outside the gurdwara when it was spray-painted with graffiti in both English and Punjabi and included the word “murdabad” (death to), on Saturday morning.Anyone who recognises […]
Senior journalist and author Coomi Kapoor has raised serious allegations against the makers of Emergency, the upcoming political drama directed by and starring Kangana Ranaut. Kapoor, whose 2015 book The Emergency: A Personal History was widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive accounts of the 1975 Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, […]
Continuing a pattern of stonewalling, the Justice Department has defied a judge’s order to explain what the Trump administration has done, and plans to do, to seek the release of a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last month, according to court papers filed on Tuesday. In refusing to reveal much of […]
