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Woman commits suicide after harassment by man

Hyderabad: A 19-year-old woman committed suicide after continuous blackmailing and harassment by a man. This incident took place in Jagathgiri Gutta Police limits. The woman, a student and resident of Allwyn Colony…

Hyderabad: Woman loses Rs 10.5 lakhs to matrimonial site fraud

Hyderabad: A woman got cheated and lost Rs 10.5 lakhs by a fraud she met on a matrimonial site. According to the police, the victim resides in Begumpet and had registered herself…

Hyderabad: Woman commits suicide

Hyderabad: A woman committed suicide after a quarrel with her husband in the Rajendranagar police station limits. According to the police sources, Sonam Agarwal (34) a resident of the Attapur residential colony…

Nethra Kumanan becomes first Indian woman sailor to qualify for Olympics

New Delhi: Nethra Kumanan on Wednesday became the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics after she was assured of a top-place finish in the laser radial event of the Asian…

Woman is a warrior; she needs to fight against traditions chaining her

Aligarh: Association of Women Warriors (WAOW) in collaboration with Dr. Zakir Husain Foundation, Aligarh held an event on the theme of women health and safety, She, the Warrior at Jamia Urdu College…

Raped 27 years ago, woman files complaint against 2 after son asks father’s name

Shahjahanpur: Raped on several occasions by two men at the age of 12 about 27 years ago, the victim, who had become a mother, has now lodged a case against the accused on…

Hyderabad: 20-year-old woman who was under pressure from parents to get married goes missing

Hyderabad: A 20-year-old woman who was reportedly under pressure from her parents to get married went missing on Wednesday. According to a report in Telangana Today, the woman who is an employee…

Watch: 90-year-old woman thrashed by daughter-in-law

Agra: A 90-year-old woman, Maya Devi, was allegedly beaten up by her daughter-in-law, 60, with a broom in the Bah area because the old woman went out of the house without informing her.…

Woman commits suicide due to harassment by in-laws in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: A 38-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging in her residence at Saroornagar, Hyderabad to get away from the alleged harassment of her in-laws on Saturday. Based on a complaint by the…

UP: Probe into Pakistani woman working as village head

Lucknow: An inquiry has been ordered after a 65-year-old Pakistani woman was found running the affairs of a village panchayat as its interim head in Etah district. Investigations were afoot to find out…

Swab sample of woman returnee from UK sent to Pune for new strain test

Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Government on Thursday denied reports that a woman had fled a quarantine centre in New Delhi after testing positive for new variant of Coronavirus following her arrival from the…

Two brothers booked for molesting woman

Mumbai: Two brothers were booked for allegedly molesting and attacking a woman over a monetary dispute in suburban Bandra, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday when the woman demanded her…

Two held for gang-raping woman in UP

Pratapgarh: Two men were arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 40-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district, police said on Sunday. The arrests were made on Saturday, they said. Superintendent of Police Anurag Arya…

Woman raped by brother-in-law in UP’s Banda

Banda: A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped by her brother-in-law in a village here, following which the accused was arrested, police said on Friday. The incident took place on Wednesday night when the…

TN: Woman dies slipping into septic tank; office has no toilets

Chennai: A 24-year-old government officer allegedly slipped and fell into an unclosed septic tank and lost her life on Saturday. The incident took place when the woman went to relieve herself outside,…

Raj police took away woman unjustifiably; Delhi HC calls for action against officials

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday termed as completely unjustified the Rajasthan Police’s action of forcibly taking away a 26-year-old woman from the national capital in connection with an abduction case lodged…

Woman constable found 76 missing children, first to be promoted out of turn

New Delhi: Delhi Police head constable Seema Dhaka who is now an Assistant Sub-Inspector after getting an out-of-turn promotion for her contribution in tracing and reuniting 76 missing children with their families,…

UP cop suspended for making obscene phone call to woman

Bhadohi: A sub-inspector (SI) of police has been booked and suspended for allegedly making obscene remarks against a 21-year-old woman over the phone in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi district, officials said on Wednesday. A…

19-yr-old woman raped in UP’s Bhadohi

Bhadohi: A 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped by an employee of a carpet factory here, police said on Monday. The matter came to light on Saturday when the woman got ill and her…

25-year-old man was arrested for posting woman’s photos on FB account

Hyderabad: An engineering student posts photos of a lady on a fake Facebook account after the lady had a fight with his mother. The man was later identified and jailed by the…

BJP to host self-defense workshop for women in Bengal

Kolkata: Amid the widespread outrage over the Hathras gang rape and murder incident in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP’s Mahila Morcha unit in West Bengal launched a safety drive for women on Friday, under…

Telangana woman washed away trying to save children

Hyderabad: A woman has washed away while trying to save her children in a stream in Telangana on Wednesday. The incident occurred in Shahpur Tanda in Vikarabad district when she along with…

45 people died of drug abuse in Mizoram this year: Official

Aizawl: At least 45 people, including four women, have died due to substance abuse in Mizoram between January and August this year with heroin being the main killer drug, an official said on…

COVID-19 will push 47M women into extreme poverty by 2021: UN

United Nations: The COVID-19 pandemic will disproportionately affect women and push 47 million more women and girls into extreme poverty by 2021, reversing decades of progress to lift this demographic above the poverty…

Video: Doctors pull out 4-feet-long snake from woman’s mouth

Hyderabad: In a hair-raising video which went viral on social media doctors are seen pulling out a 4-foot-long snake from a Russian woman’s mouth. Doctor was horrified as she pulled out the…

Doctors must stress the importance of smoking, cancer screening: Study

Washington: Smoking is strongly linked to lower use of cancer screening services by women and more advanced disease once the cancer is diagnosed, reveals research. The research was published in the online journal…

Hyderabad: Woman sells her 2-month-old son for Rs 45,000

Indian-origin man jailed in Singapore for molesting woman jogger

Singapore: A 60-year-old Indian-origin man in Singapore was jailed for four years and three months on Tuesday for molesting a woman jogger, according to a media report. Delivery driver Kannan Sukumaran was watching…

UP: Amroha woman given up for dead found alive

Amroha (UP): An Amroha woman whose relatives were arrested for honour killing after she was declared dead by police over eight months ago has turned up alive. Police have reopened the case and…

MP: Woman kills self, two daughters, by jumping into well

Khandwa: A 38-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well along with her two minor daughters at a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district, police said on Saturday. Bodies of…