One man has been convicted over serial blasts in India's capital Delhi that killed 60 people in 2005.
India's Supreme Court has cancelled the licenses of 634 doctors embroiled in a medical school admissions scandal in central Madhya Pradesh state.
South Korean special prosecutors team have filed fresh charges including bribery against a close friend of impeached President Park Geun-hye, the central figure in a political scandal that has engulfed the country, the team said on Monday.
Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to death with a two years' reprieve on Tuesday for trafficking seven babies, a local court said.
A court in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka Tuesday awarded death to 152 personnel of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), previously known as Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), for a two-day horrendous mutiny which left 74 people dead including 57 officers deputed from the Army.
Indian police arrested five people in connection with the gangrape of a Swiss woman on Monday.
The main accused in the horrific gangrape of a 23-year-old medical student in the Indian capital last year, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide Monday by hanging himself inside his cell at the high security Tihar jail Monday, a senior police official said.
India's ruling Congress party is facing a major embarrassment after one of its senior lawmakers and the deputy chief of the Upper House of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), P. J. Kurien, has been accused of gangraping a 16-year-old girl in the southern state of Kerala in 1996.
A lawyer defending three of the six accused in last month's horrific New Delhi gang rape case alleged on Thursday that police have tortured his clients in a bid to coerce them into admitting the crime even as a fast-track court trying them adjourned the case till Monday.
Fearing that the five accused in the horrifying rape case in the Indian capital last month could be lynched by angry crowds, a local court ordered camera proceeding of the hearings on Monday rather than in person at the demand of police.
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