Mumbai: A maid, who finds a mobile phone while cleaning the house, furtively stuffs it inside her blouse and tries to slip out. But unfortunately it rings at an inopportune moment exposing her to her employer. A new Tata DoCoMo ad has rubbed an association of domestic helps the wrong way. The Gharkamgar Molkarni Sanghatna, an association of domestic servants, has objected to a TV ad of Tata DoCoMo, saying...
11:27 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Bangalore: Kannada superstar Darshan was arrested on Friday on charges of domestic violence. He allegedly beat up his wife, who had to be hospitalised. For 10 years, the action hero-cum-loverboy has ruled the Kannada film industry with his antics in over 40 films. On Friday, however, the roles had switched for Darshan and the actor found himself behind bars after being arrested for engaging in domestic violence and threatening his...
09:57 AM, Sep 10, 2011
New Delhi: Popular Kannada actor Darshan was arrested on Friday morning on charges of assaulting and threatening his wife with a revolver and has been booked for various offences, including attempt to murder, police said. Darshan went to the house of Vijayalakshmi's friend Vidya with whom she was staying to demand that his wife should return to his residence in Raja Rajeshwari Nagar in Bangalore. Darshan's wife Vijayalakshmi is admitted...
09:48 AM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: One in three Indian women between the ages 15 and 49 have experienced physical violence. One in ten has experienced sexual violence. These are the dismal findings from the latest National Family Health Survey. Deepa Dasmunshi, Indian National Congress candidate from Raiganj said, "Women atrocities are increasing rapidly. Figures higher in rural areas than in cities." According to the third National Family Health Survey nearly two in five...
07:59 AM, Aug 20, 2011
New Delhi: Confirming fears of a slowdown, India's economy grew by just 7.8 per cent in the fourth quarter ending March this year, mainly due to poor performance of the manufacturing sector, as against 9.4 per cent in the same three-month period of the previous fiscal. However, economic growth, as measured by the Gross Domestic Product, improved to 8.5 per cent in 2010-11 from 8 per cent in 2009-10 due...
11:59 AM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: Indian diplomat Anil Verma, accused of physically assaulting his present wife, has a history of domestic violence. Verma was accused of beating his wife and guilty of shaming India abroad. There were conflicting versions about what happened in a London flat on Christmas eve last year. He said Paromita was struck on the face when they squabbled over a Christmas tree while Paromita said she was slapped. But...
06:58 AM, Jan 28, 2011
New Delhi: Indian Diplomat Anil Verma, accused of physically assaulting his second wife in London, has a history of domestic violence. Exclusive details accessed by CNN-IBN show that this was not the first time that Anil Verma has faced allegations of domestic violence. CNN IBN has accessed an FIR filed in 1998 by Vermas first wife alleging dowry harassment. Anil Verma's first wife had accused him of dowry harassment and...
07:44 PM, Jan 27, 2011
New Delhi: Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath on Tuesday said that strong action should be taken against officials like Anil Verma, an Indian diplomat in London accused of assaulting his wife. "There should be strong action taken against such officials and their increments stopped," Tirath said on the sidelines of a function here. Verma, the third senior-most Indian diplomat and minister (economic) at the Indian High Commission in...
03:33 PM, Jan 18, 2011
Police have arrested a businessman accused of mercilessly beaten up his eight-year-old domestic help. ...
01:00 PM, Jan 06, 2011
New Delhi: Domestic airlines have only techincally complied with DGCA's directive to declare route wise fares. The data available on the airlines' websites can only be deciphered by experts. Airlines have complied with the word of the DGCA order but not with the spirit of the directive. All domestic carriers have, as per the DGCA directive, put up route-wise fares on their websites. But a closer look shows that these...
05:44 PM, Dec 09, 2010
New Delhi: In a big turnaround in the actor Shiney Ahuja maid rape case, the domestic help has told the court that the actor never raped her. The 20-year-old maid told a fast-track court that she had slapped false charges on the actor. The woman told a fast-track court last week that she lodged the police complaint against Shiney after the woman who got her the job with the Ahujas...
08:16 AM, Sep 08, 2010
For the last 16 years Jyoti's husband has been allegedly harassing her. The husband tortures him both physically and mentally. ...
04:07 PM, Aug 01, 2010
Mumbai: Surfacing for the first time after the news of her being allegedly abused by her husband Rahul Mahajan, Dimpy Ganguly told reporters Friday that she needs time to recover and wants to be left alone. Talking to reporters briefly, Ganguly said, "Rahul and I just had a conversation and he sincerely regrets what happened." We are both very upset and I am extremely hurt. I need time to think...
06:33 PM, Jul 30, 2010
She filed two petitions, one for divorce and the other for causing mental stress ...
08:42 PM, Jul 24, 2010
Neena Malhotra furnishes evidence to show she treated her former employee in New York well. ...
02:44 PM, Jul 07, 2010
Neena Malhotra, who is now posted with the foreign ministry, accused of harassing her domestic help in NY. ...
10:42 AM, Jul 04, 2010
Sukhmander Singh, was jailed for 17 years and was ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years and six months. ...
11:30 AM, Jun 29, 2010
Says it would continue to disrupt, dismantle and defeat terrorism. ...
11:12 AM, Mar 19, 2010
The two physically assaulted their teenage domestic help. ...
02:27 AM, Dec 30, 2009
His wife made an emergency call to the police on Christmas day. ...
01:44 AM, Dec 30, 2009
