Mumbai: In a chilling reminder of the death of battered baby Falak, another case of a two-year-old who died after being allegedly abused by her parents has come to light in Mumbai. The postmortem report revealed shocking facts that the baby had sustained injuries all over the body including burns, cuts, branding and swelling. "We have filed an accidental death report and are awaiting certain reports to proceed with our...
03:20 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Mumbai: In a chilling reminder of the death of battered baby Falak, another case of a two-year-old who died after being allegedly abused by her parents has come to light in Mumbai. The postmortem report revealed shocking facts that the baby had sustained injuries all over the body including burns, cuts, branding and swelling. "We have filed an accidental death report and are awaiting certain reports to proceed with our...
04:43 PM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will on Saturday announce the quantum of punishment to the parents who tortured a three-year-old kid. The child's father who is an Army Major and his stepmother were convicted for torturing him. The child had developed 17 fractures, multiple strokes, has cerebral palsy and is classified as 90 per cent disabled. Retired Army Officer Lalit Balhara and his wife Preeti have been convicted by a...
10:02 AM, Aug 04, 2012
London: The girl was murdered by her Pakistani parents for her Western ways. And it was her little sister who bravely told jurors how her mother and father suffocated the 17-year-old with a plastic bag - gripping testimony that led to her parents' murder conviction on Friday. Justice Roderick Evans sentenced Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, to life in prison for killing their daughter, Shafilea, in 2003. The couple...
07:49 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Dehradun: A 13-year-old girl has lodged FIR against her parents for allegedly throwing her into the Ganga canal at Haridwar, from where she swam to safety, police said on Friday. Seema Kumari stated in her complaint against her father and step-mother on Thursday that they threw her into the Ganga canal on Wednesday night. The girl, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, said she was brought by her parents to Haridwar...
03:57 PM, Aug 03, 2012
London: Relieved and satisfied at the imprisonment of 'Psycho' Stapleton for the killing of their son Anuj Bidve, his grieving parents on Friday said their "whole world was lost" when he was killed on 26 December last. Bidve's Pune-based parents, Subhash and Yogini Bidve, sat through the five-week trial at the Manchester Crown Court every day, listening to evidence and watching the remorseless Stapleton at times mock the justice system....
07:36 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Bangalore: If you think only colleges and religious places have imposed dress code, here is some news. Schools in the city have begun to impose a dress code, not for students, but for parents who show up in night clothes to see off their wards. Blossoms School prohibits parents coming in nightwear to drop their kids. Shashi Kumar D, Director, Blossoms School, said, Parents dressed in nightwear are not permitted...
11:47 AM, Jul 06, 2012
London: A study in Britain has found one third of parents regretting having given their children mobile phones, computers, and games consoles. According to the study commissioned by Hobbycraft, a chain of arts and crafts superstores, parents fear about the harm to youngsters' patience, creative and social skills as well as to quality time means 34 per cent of them yearn to take the gadgets back from their children, Daily...
10:47 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Toronto: It's a parent's worst nightmare. Their child doesn't come home one evening and is missing for several days. When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her smartphone for clues using an app called Family Tracker that helped track his location. It is one of several apps that allow parents to track the whereabouts of their children. 'You can see where your...
12:36 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The parents-in-law of a widow, expelled out of her matrimonial house after her husband's death in 2010, has been asked by a Delhi court to pay Rs 10,000 as monthly maintenance to her and her minor son. Metropolitan Magistrate Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal gave the order holding that a man's widow is entitled to claim maintenance from her father and mother-in-laws. Accordingly, the court asked the woman's father-in-law, an...
09:09 AM, Apr 15, 2012
The grandparents of the children met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday to convey their concerns. CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat accompanied them. ...
05:53 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: Anger turned to amazement for 90-year-old Savitri Desai when her son Ravi came to Chinchpokli railway station to take her back home yesterday. Although she was apprehensive of going back home out of fear of harassment by the family members, she relented after her son's assurance of proper behaviour. "I am glad to be with my family and I am grateful to all the commuters who took care of...
01:42 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The row involving the custody of the 2 Indian children in Norway continues to drag on. The children's grandparents along with CPM Politburo leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna at his residence in Delhi. A Norway court set March 23 as the date for next hearing in the case that sparked a diplomatic row. The family is trying to step up pressure on...
11:20 AM, Feb 28, 2012
So Aishwarya Rai has refused to keep a nanny for her baby! That's quite something, I must say. For when you cannot hire a nanny ...
02:58 PM, Feb 21, 2012
BANGALORE: Soaring real estate prices in Bangalore may be burning holes in the pockets of prospective buyers, but it seems to be bringing families together. Couples who had chosen to live in nuclear families after marriage, are now coming back to their parents, all thanks to skyrocketing realty prices. According to realty intelligence firms, prospective investors now prefer to cut the expenses by living under the same roof with their...
09:18 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Madrid: Tennis great Arantxa Sanchez Vicario has blamed her parents for losing an estimated 45 million ($60 million) in career earnings through mismanagement. The 40-year-old Sanchez Vicario let loose against her whole family in a book of memoirs published on Tuesday. She says she does not speak to her parents or her three siblings. She says her parents were obsessed with her succeeding in a career which netted four Grand...
03:55 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Mumbai: "We moved from blackboards to interactive boards and from there to laptops and now, it is the iPad2." (Vandana Lulla, Director, Podar International School) The government may be patting itself on the back for creating the world's cheapest, Android-based tablet Aakash at not more than Rs 3,000, but the homegrown gizmo is clearly not the Apple of this posh city school's eye. The middle and high school education at...
12:37 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: On the eve of Daughters Day, the matrimonial website Shaadi.com had conducted a survey to gauge the acceptance of a girl child in modern India. The survey which received over 6000 responses from the website members across India highlighted the preference for a girl child and the maturity of the next-generation Indian parents. When asked if they would prefer a girl or a boy child, over 50% of...
03:30 PM, Sep 23, 2011
London: The style of parenting is one of the strongest influences on how much alcohol a child will drink as a teenager and young adult, a new study has found. Think tank Demos found out that bad parenting made children eight times more likely to become binge drinkers at 16 years, and twice as likely to drink excessively when they were 34. Researchers analysed data from more than 15,000 children...
04:49 PM, Aug 29, 2011
London: Earning less seems to be a blessing in disguise -- the richer people become the lesser they care for their elderly parents, a new study has found. The study of 2,790 American men and women found that increasing of wages leads to a significant drop in the amount of time people spend in helping their parents with household chores, errands and transport. According to the research, for every ten...
03:25 PM, Aug 25, 2011
