Maharashtra Sports Minister and NCP leader Manikrao Kokate resigned, hours after a court upheld his conviction in a three-decade-old housing scam case, triggering political churn within the state's ruling Mahayuti alliance.

In an intensified crackdown on illegal activities inside Karnataka's prisons, authorities have seized mobile phones, weapons and narcotics during a statewide special drive conducted over the last 36 hours.

A former morgue manager at the prestigious Harvard Medical School was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the US Justice Department said.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is being subjected to "psychological torture" in a "death cell", according to his sons Kasim Khan and Sulaiman Isa Khan, who fear they might never see their jailed father ever again.

Karnataka's newly appointed Director General of Police for Prisons and Correctional Services, Alok Kumar, launched a statewide crackdown within just 72 hours of assuming charge on Thursday.

Goli Kouhkan, now 25, was on death row in Iran's Gorgan central prison for seven years. She was arrested at 18 for allegedly taking part in the killing of her abusive husband, Alireza Abil, in May 2018 and was sentenced to 'qisas'.

The former head of Pakistan's spy agency was sentenced to 14 years in prison for violating state secrets and abusing his authority, the army said on Thursday.

A US district judge has sentenced an Indian national to 90 months in federal prison for his role in a sweeping imposter-fraud conspiracy that targeted elderly residents across five Midwestern states and caused intended losses exceeding $2.2 million.

An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of a 24-year-old woman on a beach in Australia's Queensland in 2018, local media reported.

A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during a home invasion decades ago was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Mark Allen Geralds, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:15 pm following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison

Aleema Khan, sister of former Pakistani Prime Minister and PTI founder Imran Khan, alleged that he is being subjected to mistreatment in Adiala Jail, as family members and supporters gathered outside the prison to protest his condition.

On Sonia Gandhi's 79th birthday, author Rasheed Kidwai throws light on her childhood, her father's years as a prisoner of war, and her early days in a little town in Italy.

Jailed superstar Darshan is facing charges of subjecting co-accused in the fan murder case to mental and physical torture in the Bengaluru Central Prison, where they are currently lodged along with him, sources stated on Monday.

A woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for blackmailing soccer star Son Heung-min, a South Korean court said Monday.

New NCERT Class 7 Textbook: The chapter states that Mahmud's campaigns resulted in the "slaughter of tens of thousands of Indian civilians" and the enslavement of prisoners, including children, who were taken to Central Asian slave markets.

Nirav Modi, wanted in India to face fraud and money laundering charges, is forced to share a small prison cell with a shared desk with other inmates without access to most of his legal paperwork, the High Court in London was told on Friday.

Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for selling ketamine to Matthew Perry.

Officials said the Tihar Jail Factory's carpentry and fabrication units will handle production, providing "meaningful employment and skill-development opportunities" to inmates as part of the prison's ongoing vocational programmes.

An Indian national who admitted to orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud through a Washington-based diagnostic lab was sentenced to two years in federal prison, US Attorney Charles Neil Floyd announced.

A major crackdown on illegal activities inside Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central Jail triggered a three-day hunger strike by inmates, days after a series of videos showing prisoners using mobile phones, consuming alcohol, and partying went viral

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan incarcerated in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail on corruption charges he has called politically motivated is alive and has been allowed to meet his sister, Dr Uzma Khan.

Aleema Khanum, one of Imran Khan's three sisters, has claimed that the family has been repeatedly denied a meeting with him.

Two prisoners escaped from a French jail using bedsheets after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Government officials have dismissed speculation surrounding the former Pak prime minister's alleged death in custody. Yet the episode has once again turned national attention toward the long-feared Central Jail Rawalpindi, also known as Adiala Jail.