New Delhi: A Bill seeking to give a woman a share in her husband's property was approved by the Union Cabinet on Friday. Apart from giving women the right to their husband's property, the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, also aims at giving rights to adopted children on par with biological off-springs. The cabinet meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, was introduced...
10:31 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Central government on Friday took some major decisions with regard to the Hindu Marriage Act, including making divorce easier, in a key Cabinet meeting. According to the decision of the Cabinet, the mandatory six-month clause for filing of divorce will now be waived off on grounds of irretrievable breakdown. The new clause also allows one-time settlement instead of monthly maintenance in case of divorce. The redrafted Marriage...
07:28 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Ohio: A 10-year-old boy shook when asked about being prostituted to two other men by an adoptive father who regularly had sex with him, according to police, who said the boy was fearful of talking because he didn't want to be taken from his home or separated from his new siblings. The adoptive father has been charged with raping three boys in his care and compelling prostitution by hiring the...
01:12 PM, Mar 02, 2012
HYDERABAD: As a couple of swings rock gently outside Shishu Vihar waiting for tiny tots to come test its bearings, little girls aged between 8-16 run around playing games of their own, shouting out in crisp English. As you enter the building, the heady smell of disinfectant hits you strongly, only to be replaced by infant sounds, of cooing and gurgling of babies in cradles, housed within dormitories here. An...
08:36 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Mumbai: A new adoption rule which is likely to come into effect soon says that single men will not be able to adopt a girl child at all. Not live-in couples won't even have the option to do so. Many would say that being single and being a father don't go hand in hand. But choreographer Sandeep Soparrkar doesn't agree with the view. Sandeep was one of the first men...
08:25 AM, Jun 15, 2011
Actress Preity Zinta seems to be upset about reports that Shandar Amrohi's biography "From Nowhere To Somewhere" will tell all about his decision to adopt her and give her everything in his will. She says there's no truth in this news. "No1 has or ever will adopt me or sign me in a will. Things said in interviews and reported are far from facts as the proof is in the...
03:49 PM, May 12, 2011
Pune: The CBI has filed a chargesheet against the Managing Trustee of city-based orphanage, Preet Mandir and five others in connection with an adoption racket. Special Public Prosecutor, Vivek Saxena filed the chargesheet before Special Judge SN Sardesai on Tuesday. Joginder Singh Bhasin, the Managing Trustee of the foundation, and others have been charged with entering into a criminal conspiracy to kidnap poor children and give them up for adoption....
01:10 PM, Mar 09, 2011
Citizen Journalist Gaurav Bakshi was asked to pay a bribe to get his name registered as his adopted child's legal father. Gaurav protested only to be beaten up and intimidated by the authorities. ...
08:12 AM, Mar 05, 2011
Chicago: Oprah Winfrey has discovered she has a half-sister - a Milwaukee woman who was given up for adoption by Winfrey's mother nearly 50 years ago, when the talk show host was eight years old. An emotional Winfrey introduced her newly found sibling to viewers Monday and explained the woman's persistent quest to find her birth mother. "This, my friends, is the miracle of all miracles," Winfrey said before bringing...
11:17 AM, Jan 25, 2011
Pune Municipal Corporation has launched an animal adoption scheme, where it will take a month to adopt a tiger. ...
12:03 PM, Oct 21, 2010
The actress admits the clock is ticking for her ...
01:54 PM, May 21, 2010
The girl was adopted just days before the devastating earthquake in Haiti. ...
10:57 AM, Jan 25, 2010
A mother found her baby's photo in an adoption ad on the Internet. ...
03:16 AM, Aug 03, 2009
Malawi's highest court granted the adoption on June 12. ...
02:29 PM, Jun 22, 2009
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