Coimbatore: Angry that his wife delivered a second baby girl, a 25-year-old man allegedly kicked her to death on the city outskirts, police said on Thursday. Police said the man, who was arrested on Thursday, kicked his wife in the stomach on Wednesday night resulting in heavy bleeding. She was taken to a private hospital where she died on Thursday morning, police said. Pandyarajan was angry at his wife delivering...
09:03 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Bankura: A housewife was allegedly raped by her neighbour during the daytime in her home at Banki village, 12 km from Bankura, police said on Thursday. The alleged incident occured at around 11 am on Wednesday and the neighbour allegedly threatened to kill the woman if she made it public, Bankura superintendent of police Mukesh Kumar said. The woman was alone at home at the time as her husband was...
03:03 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Bareilly: Upset with his wife for not bearing a male child, a man killed her in Bareilly, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday at Paratpur Nai Basti locality in Izzatnagar area. The woman identified as Salma was beaten and later strangulated by her husband Arif, police said. Arif, who has five daughters, was upset with Salma for not bearing a male child, they said, adding that...
02:58 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Pollachi: A farmer landed in the police net on Monday when he attempted to cook up a dacoity drama after killing his wife. The 33-year-old farmer, K Sivakumar of Rangasamuthiram, reportedly confessed to his crime after police grilled him. He had laid out a perfect story stating that four robbers barged into his house and assaulted them with pipe wrenches before escaping with jewellery. According to police sources, Sivakumar killed...
11:33 AM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: A non-resident Indian has been asked by a Delhi court to pay an alimony of Rs 33,000 a month to his estranged wife living in New Delhi. Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ila Rawat ordered Puneet Arora, residing in Canada with his parents and sister, to pay maintenance to his wife from January 2010 when she had moved the court for the alimony. The sessions court's order came on...
03:41 AM, Jun 23, 2012
'They got you in the heart, where I lived'. That was the first thought of Shubha Sharma, wife of MiD DAY's investigations editor J Dey, when she first heard the news that her husband had been shot dead. On his first death anniversary, she recalls her life with her 'superhero' and reveals why the killers could never really reach his heart. "When I was told about the bullets that pierced...
01:59 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: Working women in urban areas give precedence to their career and professional ambitions over plans to start a family, a study said on Thursday. The survey was conducted on about 1,200 married, young working women and home makers in cities like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune. Over half of married women in the aforesaid centres said they have shelved plans to start a family as...
09:17 PM, May 10, 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
Ghaziabad: Being late for his own wedding proved costly for a bridegroom as he and his relatives were beaten up by irked family members of the bride who was married off to another person. Groom Jameel was to marry Nagma on Wednesday at 10:30 am in Muradnagar area of the district, police said. However, the groom and his relatives reached the venue at 6:00 pm following which the angry family...
09:07 PM, Apr 19, 2012
London: A man, whose wife left him after emigrating from Britain to Australia, shed every part of his old life - car, home, job and friends on eBay in a midlife crisis that made headlines the world over. But in his new inning of life, Ian Usher, 48, managed to rediscover love and joy over the next four years as he went on to buy a Caribbean island! Ian Usher...
02:06 PM, Apr 12, 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: Money and sex -- Umesh alias Karan Rathod thought he had found a beeline to both. The journey didn't last long. Kasturba Marg police arrested the 38-year-old yesterday for allegedly blackmailing his wife's friend for money and sexual favours. According to cops, Rathod was harassing a 36-year-old Kandivli resident after he saw the woman with her alleged paramour and clicked their photo. The victim, who works at a private...
02:10 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Timing and expectation both worked against this book. Kunal Basu set the bar too high with 'The Japanese Wife'. 'The Yellow Emperor's Cure' fails to match it in narration and nuance. Plus, most of the book is set in 19th century China, making it look insipid after Amitav Ghosh's 'River of Smoke'. You may call it an unfair comparison, but it cannot be helped. That said, I did enjoy some...
01:25 PM, Jan 12, 2012
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
Kathmandu: She might have been vilified by outraged members of the public for falling in love with and marrying an alleged murderer but come October and Nihita Biswas Sobhraj, the Nepali wife of Charles Sobhraj, will show the world who's Bigg Boss. The 23-year-old, who became an instant celebrity three years ago when Sobhraj -- doing time in a Kathmandu prison -- announced they had fallen in love, flew to...
06:34 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Before Ernest Hemingway was ERNEST HEMINGWAY - one of the most revered, studied, analysed, and parodied authors of American literature - he was a young man with a burning talent, staking his claim to a bright future. And part of this future included Hadley Richardson, his first wife, a woman who was his equal in many ways - a risk-taker, adventurer, and big drinker. Paula McLain - in an addictive...
11:42 AM, Aug 08, 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
Mumbai: It was like any other ordinary day for the Patils living in Bilalpada, Nalasopara (East) till the time they knocked on their neighbour's door and got the shock of their lives. What they saw in the house of their neighbour Chandrakant Ahire was a horrible sight that they will never be able to forget. Ahire was standing in the doorway, calmly, holding the severed head of his wife. According...
02:08 PM, Jul 29, 2011
