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Ranchi, June 15 (IANS) A Zilla Parishad member of Pakur district in Jharkhand has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for creating unrest and

A special CBI court on Tuesday awarded five years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a former assistant general manager (AGM) in Punjab National Bank's (PNB) Banjara Hills branch here along with a fine for his involvement in a bank loan fraud of amounting to Rs 53.82 crore.

A special NIA court in Bengaluru has awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment to four members of the proscribed outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in a case pertaining to the seizure of large quantities of electrical and electronics items, tools, chemical apparatus, containers used for fabrication of bombs and IEDs from the hideout of the JMB operatives.

A former sub-inspector in the Railway Protection Force (RPF) was awarded three years' rigorous jail term by a special CBI court in Visakhapatnam.

Amid rising fears that Beijing would begin instituting closer control over the church in Hong Kong, the detention of a 90-year-old retired bishop of Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen, prompted an immediate outcry from international human rights leaders along with calls for the government to uphold religious freedom in the city.