Mandya: A Polish couple has gone missing after setting out on a boat ride in Cauvery river from Tamil Nadu towards Karnataka, police in Mandya said. According to a complaint lodged with police by S Jayaprabha, Manager of a private company at Hosur, his colleague Ian Turton and his wife had embarked on a boat ride from Denkanikote in Tamil Nadu to Muthathi in Karnataka on May 19. The couple...
09:10 AM, May 23, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
Washington: After years of "evolving" on the issue, US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, taking a stand that is likely to please his political base and upset conservative voters. "It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married," Obama said in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts. Obama's...
06:01 AM, May 10, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that refusal by a wife to conceive a child because of family's financial instability could not be used as a ground for divorce by her husband. "Also, not knowing how to cook, not being religious, not parting with salary and not folding clothes properly," could not be treated as grounds for divorce, ruled Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta. The bench was,...
07:16 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming the doctor couple for trying to settle the case against them by offering Rs 75,000 to their minor maid, whom they had allegedly left locked-up and starving in their flat while vacationing in Bangkok, a Delhi court on Friday rejected the bail plea of the medico's wife. Duty Magistrate Arul Varma dismissed the bail plea of Dr Sanjay Verma's wife Sumita Verma. The couple had appeared before...
07:46 PM, Apr 06, 2012
The Indian Express carried a report on Wednesday saying that two Army columns marched towards the capital in January without notifying the government. ...
10:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court of Tuesday rejected anticipatory bail plea of the doctor couple, who allegedly left their minor maid locked up and starving in their house while they vacationed in Thailand. Delhi police said that the couple are not in India right now. However, the lawyer informed the court that the couple was in India and willing to cooperate with the cops. Earlier, a look-out notice was issued...
02:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi police has issued a lookout notice against the doctor couple who had locked up their 13-year-old maid and left for a holiday in Bangkok. What was more shocking is that the couple had left the physically abused child for 6 days with hardly any food in the house. The ordeal that the maid suffered will be hard for her to forget. Her employers, both doctors living...
09:26 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: A look-out notice was issued on Monday against a doctor couple, who allegedly left their minor maid locked up and starving in their house while they vacationed in Thailand. Sanjay Verma and his wife Sumita were to return to India on Saturday but they had not reached Delhi even on Monday, a senior police official said. The police had on Sunday initiated the process of issuing the look-out...
07:59 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police have recovered a diary of the senior Defence Ministry official, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances along with his wife two days ago, in which he is believed to have mentioned work stress and some Army officers having pressured him on job front. The diary was recovered from the flat in Hudco Place in south Delhi where Kumar Yashkar Sinha and his wife Archana Sharma...
07:58 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: The two Indian children, who have been placed in emergency foster care in Norway since May last, could be back in their "natural habitat" after a court hearing there in June, Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday. "We are taking it up, putting pressure on ... indications might be in June (they will be) in their natural habitat. We would like to see the children back in their...
01:50 PM, Mar 29, 2012
London: An Islamic marriage guide advising men on 'the best ways' to beat their wives has sparked outrage in Britain, especially among moderate Muslims who say that it encourages domestic violence. The book - A Gift For Muslim Couple - tells husbands that they should beat their wives with "hand or stick or pull her by the ears", the Daily Mail reported. Authored by Maulavi Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who is...
01:35 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: The custody battle of the two NRI children Abhigyan and Aishwarya has seen several twists in the past few days. Norway has said that they won't give the two children to their uncle even if he was willing to take them under his protection. The Norwegian authorities have said the parents and the uncle have changed their position many times in the recent days. Reidar Hjermann, the Ombudsman...
11:27 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Islamabad: Taliban militants have released a Swiss couple, who were abducted over eight months ago in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan, military officials said on Thursday. Olivier David Och, 31, and Daniela Widmer, 29, were safe and had been brought to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, after being released in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, the officials told the media. They were held in the lawless tribal...
01:28 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Mumbai: After doing films like 'Style', 'Jo Bole So Nihaal' and 'Thank You', model-turned-actress, Shillpi Sharma has been signed for Madhur Bhandarkar's, 'Heroine', which has Kareena Kapoor in the lead role The actress has shot a couple of scenes for the film. "Madhur, a family friend, approached me for the role. He was looking out for someone glamorous and was of the opinion that I was perfect. I cannot reveal...
07:01 PM, Mar 11, 2012
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