An Indian-born billionaire and three family members were sentenced to prison on Friday for exploiting domestic workers at their lakeside villa in Switzerland by seizing their passports, barring them from going out and making them work up to 18 hours a day.
Geneva: A Swiss criminal court on Friday sentenced four members of the wealthy Hinduja family with between four and 4 1/2 years in prison for exploiting their vulnerable domestic workers. The court at the same time threw out the more severe charges of human trafficking.
Opposition raking up Dalit CM issue to divert attention: Karnataka Minister
Have requested Amit Shah for CBI probe into Ajit Pawar's plane crash: Fadnavis
War of words in Kerala assembly over Sabarimala gold row; UDF announces non-cooperation
JNU protest turns violent; JNUSU, ABVP accuse each other of attacks
Delhi: 3 northeastern women face racial abused, called 'dhandhewali', FIR registered
Jharkhand civic polls: 12 pc voter turnout recorded in 48 ULBs till 9 am
Tripura student's partner put sanitiser in her private parts, filmed her nude: Gurugram police
Belthangady: Woman delivers baby boy in ambulance
PM Modi condoles demise of ex-union minister Mukul Roy
Kerala completes five lakh houses under LIFE Mission, says CM Vijayan
Fire destroys parked school buses in Thiruvananthapuram, sabotage suspected
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta accuses Mamata Banerjee of stalling SIR; TMC hits back
London/Rome: A 31-year-old Indian casual worker in Italy has died tragically after he was dumped on the road without medical assistance by his employer after his arm was severed by heavy farm machinery, an incident that has shocked the country.
Fifteen people were shot during a Juneteenth celebration in Oakland, California, police said.
Washington D.C. — Recent reports suggesting Saudi Arabia's termination of a longstanding petrodollar deal with the United States have ignited widespread online discussions regarding the potential decline of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. However, several experts have pointed out a fundamental flaw in these reports: there was never a formal petrodollar agreement to begin with.
Seoul: Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country is attacked, during a Pyongyang summit on Wednesday that came as both face escalating standoffs with the west.
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday claimed the United States is withholding weapons and implied this was slowing Israel's offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where fighting has exacerbated the already dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians.
Sixty-four people were missing at sea after a shipwreck off the Italian southern coast on Monday, while 11 were rescued and taken ashore to a Calabrian town, United Nations agencies said in a statement.
The world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernise their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on such deterrence in 2023, a Swedish think tank said on Monday.
Israeli officials said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential War Cabinet that was tasked with steering the war in Gaza.
