Tag: Fined

SRK fined for smoking in public, pleads guilty

Pleading guilty, Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan sought exemption from personal appearance in the court in a case related to smoking in public at a...

SZH’s lady doctor fined for ‘wasting court’s time’

The Lahore High Court has imposed a fine on a lady doctor of Sheikh Zayed Hospital for filing a baseless petition against two of...

Beauty queen fined after pretending to be sister

Shanna Bukhari, 25, was pulled over while driving her family’s red MG sports car earlier this year. She claimed to be her sister but...

Bresnan fined for dissent

England fast bowler Tim Bresnan has been fined 7.5 percent of his match fee for showing dissent during Thursday’s one-day international against India in...

SRK fined Rs 1.5 lakhs by customs

Shah Rukh Khan’s return from his European holiday might not have been as happy as he might have imagined. The actor who returned India...

Egypt’s Mubarak fined for communication services cut

An Egyptian court on Saturday fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million pounds ($90.64 million) for cutting off mobile and...

Egypt’s Mubarak fined for cutting communication

An Egyptian administrative court fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million Egyptian pounds ($91 million) on Saturday for cutting mobile...

Rs 49.8m fraud accused fined, imprisoned

LAHORE - An accountability court on Friday sentenced Astro Financial Information and Database Services (Pvt) Ltd CEO Muhammad Shahzad Anjum to 14 years in prison and fined him Rs 49.768 million in a fraud case. Anjum invited the investors to deposit money with him on the promise of returning their deposits with unprecedented profits after the expiry of a specified period. In this way, he embezzled Rs 49.768 million from 70 investors. EX-HAJ DIRECTOR'S REMAND EXTENDED: An

Longest serving US SC judge fined over car shunt

LAHORE - US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was given a traffic ticket after a four-car road crash in Washington DC. No one was injured in the shunt about 0900 local time (1400 GMT) on Tuesday. Mr Scalia, 75, was driving to work at the US Supreme Court, which was hearing arguments in a gender discrimination law suit against US retailer Wal-Mart. He was given a $70 (£43) ticket for following too closely, according to police quoted by the Washington Post newspaper.
Mr Scalia

Mills, Vettori and du Plessis fined heavily for row

NEW DELHI - New Zealand's Kyle Mills and Daniel Vettori and South African Faf du Plessis have been heavily fined for an altercation during Friday's World Cup quarter-final in Dhaka, the ICC said on Saturday.
Mills has been fined 120 percent of his match fee for "inappropriate and deliberate physical contact between players" and for conduct that is "contrary to the spirit of the game".
His captain Vettori has been fined 90 percent match fee for the deliberate physical contact

Hameed fined, banned

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred Yasir Hameed from participating in the ongoing first class competition and also banned him from playing this year's national T20 championship, besides imposing a fine of Rs 300,000 for his spot-fixing allegations against some national players.
Hameed, in a video interview with the British tabloid News of the World had claimed that some Pakistani players were involved in spot-fixing.
The batsman, who has not played for the

OGRA fined Rs 8.05m to OMCs in 2010

ISLAMABAD - Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has imposed fine Rs 8.05 million to various oil marketing companies (OMCs) for irregularities, including non-availability or hoarding of petroleum products and overcharging during inspection in year 2010.
According to the OGRA, in such circumstances dealers do hoard products to gain extra profit on stocked products. Figures show that a total of Rs 8.05 million fine was imposed on different companies of which Rs 1.375 million was

Messi fined over birthday message

MADRID - Lionel Messi has been fined for lifting his shirt to reveal a vest wishing his mother a happy birthday after scoring a goal for Barcelona, the Spanish football federation said on Tuesday. The world player of the year ran over to a television camera to reveal the words "Happy birthday, mami" on an undershirt after scoring a penalty in Barca's 3-0 home win over Racing Santander on Saturday.
The referee did not book the Argentine forward for the celebration but mentioned

Four players fined in QT final

LAHORE - Four players have been fined a total of nearly $2,000 for ball-tampering, slow over rates or using abusive language during the domestic final of the Quaid-e-Azam trophy.
HBL defeated PIA by five wickets Monday in the final.
PIA were fined Rs 75,000 for being 15 overs behind schedule, and HBL was fined Rs 33,000 for being eight overs short.
PIA quick Najaf Shah was found guilty of ball-tampering and fined Rs 15,000. Similar punishments were given to captain

Samaa, Waqt TV fined for airing Qadri’s interview

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has fined Samaa and Waqt TV channels Rs 1 million each for airing an interview of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer.
A source told Pakistan Today that several TV channels had recorded the interview of Qadri, but only the said TV channels aired it, while others exhibited "responsibility". Meanwhile PEMRA has proposed a bill to ban discussions in TV talk shows on sub-judice

Ponting fined over umpire row

MELBOURNE - Australia captain Ricky Ponting was fined 40 percent of his match fee after his frustration over a TV referral decision boiled over into an ugly row with umpire Aleem Dar on the second day of the fourth Ashes test on Monday.
Ponting, whose team face a huge task to save the test and keep alive their hopes of winning back the Ashes, spent more than a minute remonstrating with Dar after demanding a review of a not out decision against England batsman Kevin Pietersen.

Chinese firm fined for Pak N-exports

WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday fined the Chinese subsidiary of a US firm nearly $4 million for exporting coatings to a Pakistan nuclear site.
PPG Paints Trading in Shanghai, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PPG Industries, agreed to pay $3.75 million over the exports - from which it had earned just $32,319 - the US Justice Department said.
The fines "represent one of the largest monetary penalties for export violations in the history of the US Department of Commerce's