Khartoum: A Sudanese woman, believed to be around 20, has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, and is being held near Khartoum, shackled in prison with her baby son, rights groups and lawyers said on Thursday. Campaigners condemned the ruling, saying it violated international standards and raised concerns that Sudan might start applying sharia, or Islamic law, more strictly following the secession of mostly non-Muslim South Sudan...
09:59 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Bangalore: A 23 year-old woman was brutally hacked to death by some unidentified bike-borne assailants in full public view in the city, police said. Divya, employed with a private firm, was heading to her home late on Monday evening when the assailants waylaid her and slashed her repeatedly on the neck and face with a machete before speeding away on their bike, they said. The victim, who was bleeding, was...
08:18 PM, May 29, 2012
London: A video of a brave Saudi woman confronting members of the country's religious police after they accused her of breaking strict modesty rules with her freshly painted nails, has gone viral on the internet. The unidentified woman refuses their demands that she leave the mall where she was present and tells them that her nails are 'none of (their) business'. After she filmed the incident on her mobile phone...
09:28 PM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: The mystery woman who had arranged for cricketers Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell to be present during the rave party at Juhus Oakwood Premier hotel that was raided on Sunday, has been identified by cops. Ninety one people were detained during the police operation and the establishments director arrested. The woman, Namrata Kumar, who is a public relations representative, had got in touch with Parnell through one of his...
12:16 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: MC Mary Kom, India's sole woman boxer at the London Olympics, will train with her male counterparts in Patiala ahead of the summer extravaganza. The five-time world champion had lady luck to thank as she qualified for the Olympics after England's Nicola Adams advanced to the finals of the World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China. After Mary Kom lost in the quarterfinals to Nicola on Wednesday, the Indian's...
08:53 PM, May 21, 2012
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06:11 PM, May 10, 2012
Mumbai: After the body of a 30-year-old man was recovered from the rocks of the Manori beach on Sunday, Gorai cops have learnt that the victim was called to the spot by a woman on Saturday. Cops are now trying to determine the identity of this mystery woman. The victim has been identified as Ramesh Dedhia, a resident of Malwani in Malad (West), where he stayed with his second wife....
12:41 PM, May 08, 2012
Gurgaon: Two persons died including a pregnant woman and 4 injured when a speeding BMW rammed into a Tata Indica while trying to overtake it at Sector 29 in Gurgaon on Saturday. Sanjay Sethi and Shama were killed when the luxury vehicle hit their car from the side, behind IFFCO Metro station, police said. The impact of the accident left both vehicles severely damaged, they said. (With additional inputs from...
08:40 AM, May 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: In a horrifying act, a 24-year old hospital canteen worker killed her newborn girl and stashed the body in a handbag on Thursday, intending to dispose it, police said. The woman gave birth to the girl in the bathroom of the hostel where she was staying and choked the infant to death, the police said. She kept it inside the bag intending to dispose off the body. The incident...
11:52 PM, May 03, 2012
London: A woman dentist in Poland is facing jail after she allegedly pulled out all her former boyfriend's teeth because he dumped her for another woman. Anna Mackowiak, 34, took revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic with toothache just days after breaking up with her, the Daily Mail reported. She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked all his teeth out. She...
07:34 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Mexico City: A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country's main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night. The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report. Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility...
11:06 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: A city resident has been ordered by a Delhi court to pay Rs 8,000 as monthly compensation to his wife, allegedly turned out of the house by him after nearly 33 years of their marriage. Metropolitan Magistrate Monika Saroha ordered compensation for the woman, expressing surprise that the woman, married in 1978 and allegedly turned out of the house by her husband in 2010, did not raise voice...
05:32 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Dehra Dun: A woman army officer has filed a case against a Lieutenant Colonel in Dehra Dun, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the pretext of marrying her. The woman officer, a Lieutenant in the Army Hospital, filed a police complaint against the Lieutenant Colonel, posted in Uttarkashi, in the Cantt police station alleging that he cheated and sexually harassed her over a period of time after promising to...
06:15 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Ranchi: A middle-aged woman, who was gangraped and beaten up by her assaulters, died in a hospital in Jharkhand capital on Monday, police said. According to police, the woman took an auto-rickshaw on Sunday night from the Ashoknagar colony area for her home in Kadru, but the driver suddenly stopped the vehicle near the Sahjanand roundabout and raped her along with four others. The woman, who is yet to be...
06:04 PM, Apr 23, 2012
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