Barmer: Khap Panchayats are infamous for their scarily unreasonable diktats. But in a village in Rajasthan's Barmer, a rare order by one such Panchayat, 20 years ago, came as a blessing for girls. The Panchayat made it mandatory for everyone to send their daughters to school or face a penalty. The girls are now all grown up. Barmer is known for its poor gender ratio, but right in the middle...
08:55 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Chandigarh: The Khap Panchayat of Patharwali village in Haryana's Bhiwani district turned its wrath on Indian Foreign Service officer Neelam Sharma for daring to fall in love with a man from a different caste. Sharma, who is posted at the Indian consulate in Moscow, wants to marry Godhra ADM Kuldeep Yadav. Senior members of the Patharwali village are vehemently opposing the alliance because Yadav is from a different caste. Incidentally...
01:16 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Mumbai: Veteran actor Om Puri, who is looking forward to his upcoming film 'Khap', that deals with the issue of honour killing, says cinema has become a business and he is not happy with the kind of roles he has been offered. "Cinema has become business minded...it has become more greedy and money-minded. I am not happy about it. I don't believe in the cinema that only entertains. I believe...
07:48 PM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday termed Khap panchayats as kangaroo courts and declared them illegal. The Supreme Court ruling said that Khap panchayats are wholly illegal and have to be ruthlessly stamped out. A bench of justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra said in a judgement that the new trends of kangaroo courts, honour killings, "khap" panchayaths in northern India and "katta" panchayats in Tamil Nadu were...
06:43 PM, Apr 19, 2011
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Rightwing conservative youth on a collision course with liberal democracy. Is it fun to be young? Not really. The Hindustan Times CNN-IBN Youth poll ...
07:04 AM, Feb 09, 2011
Chandigargh: A braveheart who exposed a case of honour killing is now facing danger to her life. Seema Kumari sent her brother's killers to jail but now the convicts have hired contract killers to eliminate her. Seema, a Haryana Police constable in Yamunanagar district, thought she had got justice for her brother Manoj whom she lost to honour killing. But her brother's killers, now in jail, are threatening her. They...
02:03 PM, Jan 20, 2011
New Delhi: Notwithstanding a spate of so called honour killings in northern states, a new study shows that a massive 92 per cent of the people in this region disapprove of such crimes. The study commissioned by National Commission of Women interviewed both urban and rural people out of which 46 per cent agreed that the Khap Panchayats or self-styled caste councils were raising right issues, 48 per cent agreed...
10:36 AM, Aug 15, 2010
Khap panchayats reiterated their demand to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and block inter-gotra marriages. ...
08:55 AM, Jul 27, 2010
At a meeting in Muzaffarnagar, several village bodies from three states, sounded a defiant note. ...
08:49 AM, Jul 12, 2010
Central Government is allegedly under pressure from Haryana MPs and there are differences within the Cabinet. ...
11:46 PM, Jul 08, 2010
Opposition from Haryana MPs forced the government to defer a bill on stricter punishment to honour killers. ...
10:35 AM, Jul 08, 2010
Delhi Police suspect there are more than three persons involved in the serial killings for honour in the Capital. ...
04:00 PM, Jun 26, 2010
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Face The Nation, Sagarika Ghose speaks to a panel of experts on the issue. ...
08:39 AM, Jun 25, 2010
The BJP has demanded setting up of fast-track courts to deal with cases of honour killings. ...
07:54 AM, Jun 24, 2010
Supreme Court asked the Centre and eight states about what is being done to stop honour killings. ...
09:17 PM, Jun 21, 2010
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