Mumbai: An altercation over washing laundry got really dirty, when the husband of a woman, who had been abused by a neighbour, thrashed the latter severely, leading to his death. Mankhurd police arrested Santosh Kisan Vajirkar (30) on Sunday for causing the death of Sandeep Jagannath Bansode (29). The incident took place at Lallubhai Compound Building, 12, Mankhurd. On May 11, Sandeep abused and scolded Santosh's wife in the morning...
10:01 AM, May 14, 2012
Damoh: A man in Damoh on Friday axed his wife to death out of suspicion, and later committed suicide by jumping in front of a train, police said. The deceased were identified as Gayatri Patel, 19, and Shankar Patel, 23. Shankar suspected that his wife was having an affair with her sister's husband and they quarrelled frequently over this issue, police said. After a heated argument on Saturday, he allegedly...
08:02 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Call it bizarre but soon the Islamist-dominated Parliament of Egypt would pass a law which allows husbands to have sex with their dead wives for "upto six hours". The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Egyptian Parliament, Daily Mail reported on Thursday. It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights...
06:59 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu government has come up with a novel idea to keep beneficiaries of a government scheme, under which milch cows, sheeps and goats are distributed for free to landless poor, motivated in rearing the animals by announcing prizes worth thousands of rupees for best maintenance. In a recent order, the state Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Department Secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi referred to a Director of Animal Husbandry...
11:39 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Mumbai: Unhappy in her marriage, a 25-year-old housewife decided to end her husband's life with the help of her lover and his friend. Sangita Chandrakant Varak, a resident of Chembur, watched her husband Chandrakant die as her lover strangled Chandrakant's throat by stepping on it. Sangita and a friend of her lover held on to Chandrakant's hands and feet, as he struggled and fought for his life. The RCF cops...
01:46 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Willful denial of sex, including that on the first night after wedding, by either of the spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for dissolution of the marriage, the Delhi High Court has ruled. Justice Kailash Gambhir gave the verdict, upholding the lower court's decree of divorce to a man having a "sex-starved marriage" as his wife refused to have sexual intercourse with him on the...
09:24 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Mumbai: On seeing Sujoy Ghosh's stunning Kolkata-based suspense-drama 'Kahaani' your attention is immediately caught by quietly accomplished Bengali actor Parambrata Chatterjee, who plays Vidya Balan's saviour in the film. Parambrata, Param to friends, plays Vidya's distressed spouse-searching character's cop-saviour who breaks protocol, rules and conventions to get her to her goal and somewhere down the line becomes subtly attracted to her. Parambrata conveys his growing affection for his leading lady...
08:57 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Patna: Authorities in Bihar have ordered the arrest of men who are found to be exploiting their elected wives' positions, in a bid to end the practice of "rule by proxy" which plagues many rural councils in the largely patriarchal country. The "rule by proxy" culture - in which women may be elected as representatives in local councils and committees, but their husbands still call the shots - is common...
04:23 PM, Dec 08, 2011
London: One in every three women believe that their husbands "lose interest" in them and don't find them attractive any more once they give birth, says a British study. Almost half of women surveyed accused their husbands of "forgetting" who they were since they became a mother, said the research by the website Netmums. On being asked which words their male partner would use to describe them, just 12 percent...
06:29 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Ruskin Bond, one of the best known English writers in India, once said that 'pen, in honest and gifted hands, is mightier than the grave'. The author, now 77, lives by this philosophy and says he has many more stories to tell. "By and large I have had a fulfilling life. I am a writer without regrets. But I would say that there is a long way to...
05:06 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: In conversation with Rima Kallingal, a rising young star in Malayalam films. It is true that a lot of heroines from Malayalam cinema are trying their luck in Tamil cinema, but I don't look at it as a migration. For me, it is just about doing a good role. When Yuvan Yuvathi (co-starring Bharat) was offered to me, I was excited about the prospect of doing a different...
03:56 PM, Nov 13, 2011
Los Angeles: Hilary Duff and her husband are expecting their first child. The 23-year-old singer and actress announced the news Sunday on her website, after noting that she and Mike Comrie, 30, are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary. "We also want to share the exciting news that baby makes three," Duff wrote on her site. "We are extremely happy and ready to start this new chapter of our lives." Days...
01:05 PM, Aug 15, 2011
London: The wife of a doctor landed herself in trouble after mistakenly sending to her hubby a text message which she meant for her lover, Daily Mail reported. The doctor threatened to kill his estranged wife after she accidentally sent him a text message intended for her lover, a British court heard. Nurse Victoria Stacey wrote a message for a family friend with whom she was having an affair, which...
11:40 AM, Aug 04, 2011
Meerut: It was a real life story that seemed to have been lifted straight out of bollywood - a husband who said his wife would now become his sister just so that she could be reunited with her estranged lover. Nitish Tyagi, a resident of Meerut made his wife Aarti tie him a rakhi on May 6 after he found out that she was already in love with Vineet. But...
09:41 AM, Jun 29, 2011
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