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- India
Woman assaulted for not agreeing to ‘wife-swap’; husband, in-laws booked
Jaipur: A man, along with his mother and sister, has been booked for assaulting his wife for refusing to be part of wife-swapping in Bikaner. In her FIR, the victim woman said…
- World
Russia releases 108 captive Ukrainian women
Kiev: Russia has released 108 Ukrainian women as part of the latest prisoner exchange between the two warring countries, authorities in Kiev have confirmed. In a social media post on Monday, Andriy…
- India
Swiss woman lands in Mumbai in search for biological mother
Mumbai: Bina Makhijani Muller who was adopted in 1978 by an Indian couple and taken to Switzerland, has been searching for her biological mother for over the past decade. The only clue…
- India
Jamaat-Islami woman wing welcomes Justice Dhulia’s verdict on Hijab
New Delhi: The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s (JIH) women wing has welcomed Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia’s verdict in the hijab case. Appreciating Justice Dhulia’s position that wearing a hijab is a matter of choice, JIH…
- India
After human sacrifice case, Kerala woman detained for running black magic centre
Thiruvananthapuram: A woman accused of practising black magic was taken into custody from Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district where an incident of suspected human sacrifice was reported earlier in which three persons were arrested,…
- India
Man killed in Bokaro for affair with woman of another community, 11 arrested
Ranchi: A 45-year-old man was allegedly murdered in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district for his relationship with a woman of another community, police said on Friday. Some people of Dhawaiya village in Mahuatand were…
- India
Two MP Cong MLAs booked for harassing woman on train
Bhopal: Two Congress MLAs from Madhya Pradesh were booked for allegedly harassing a woman while they were travelling on an overnight train. The alleged incident was reported on the intervening night of…
- World
California man charged with hate crimes after targeting saree-clad Hindu women
San Francisco: At least 14 Hindu women in the US state of California have been attacked by a man who also ripped their jewellery in a spate of hate crimes, authorities said. According…
- India
Karnataka: Parents, brother commit suicide woman elopes with man of different caste
Bangalore: In a shocking case, parents and brother of a woman ended their lives after she eloped with a man belonging to another caste in the Handiganala village of Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur district.…
- Kerala
Kerala: Woman, awaiting cat bite injection, bitten by stray dog in hospital
Thiruvananthapuram: A young woman was bitten by a stray dog while awaiting a anti-rabies dose for cat bite inside a state-run public health centre, here on Friday. Aparna (31), along with her…
- Middle East
Pro-government rallies held in Iran amid mass protests
Dubai: Iranian counterprotesters gathered across the country on Friday in a show of support for authorities after nearly a week of anti-government protests and unrest over the death of a young woman…
- India
ED seizes USD worth Rs 1.03 crore from woman at Kolkata Airport
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said that it had recovered US dollars, worth Rs 1.03 crore, from a woman passenger at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport in…
- India
Uttar Pradesh: 28 yrs later woman reports rape by family members
Aligarh: Nearly 28 years after the incident, a woman has come forward to report her sexual assault as a seven-year-old child by male members of her step-father’s family. The 35-year-old woman, wife…
- India
Mountaineer Santosh Yadav to be first woman chief guest at RSS event on Vijayadashmi
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) announced through a tweet on Thursday, that mountaineer Padam Shri Santosh Yadav will be the chief guest at the annual RSS Vijayadashmi festival, becoming the first…