London: Paromita Verma, the estranged wife of recalled Indian diplomat Anil Verma, has claimed that her husband hit her more than once and she was "extremely fearful" of her fate if she was forced to return to India. In a statement contained in her complaint to the Family Division of the Royal Courts of Justice here, she said: "I am extremely fearful of what might happen to me and my...
04:04 PM, Feb 02, 2011
Rio De Janeiro: A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid basement for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house. Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Groppo, 64, in the cellar of the house in the city of Sorocaba in Sao Paulo state. The floor of the roughly 130-square-foot (12-square-meter) cellar was littered...
12:07 PM, 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/London: The Indian High Commission here has issued a blow-by-blow account on the alleged wife-bashing by its senior diplomat Anil Verma, who has been transferred back to India, saying the incident was "provoked" by a row over a Christmas tree gift. Taking a tough stand on domestic violence, the mission in a statement here said, "there is no question of condoning domestic violence which is totally unacceptable. Once the...
08:22 AM, Jan 19, 2011
New Delhi: Facing mounting criticism over diplomat Anil Verma, accused of wife beating in London, the Government on Tuesday came out promising tough action if an enquiry finds him guilty. Officials have told CNN-IBN that, Verma will now return to India next week. Days after the story broke; the diplomat accused of having assaulted his wife in London is now packing to return. officials confirm that 1989 batch IAS officer...
11:13 PM, Jan 18, 2011
Experts and activists discuss the case of 'wife beater' diplomat Anil Verma's case on 'People First'. ...
10:56 PM, Jan 18, 2011
Anil Verma, third-ranked diplomat in the Indian High Commission in London, found himself in trouble when his wife covered in blood was found screaming by neighbours on December 11.
03:33 PM, Jan 18, 2011
New Delhi: The British Foreign Office has released a strong statement demanding that immunity for diplomat Anil Verma be waived. Verma has been accused by his wife of beating her up and the Foreign Office said it did not tolerate diplomats working in the UK breaking the law. The statement said British government officials met with Indian High Commission officials and officials in Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi to...
05:53 PM, Jan 17, 2011
New Delhi: Senior London-based diplomat Anil Verma, accused of assaulting his wife, has been transferred back home with immediate effect and is likely to face action. MEA sources have told CNN-IBN that Anil Verma, has been transferred back from London to Delhi. MEA sources said that the domestic violence incident will be taken very seriously. The wife of the diplomat - Paromita Verma - is still in hiding with the...
09:39 AM, Jan 17, 2011
London: Housewives have long been complaining about it, now a new study has confirmed that running the home is more stressful for your heart than being at work. The study by scientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the US showed that household chores such as cooking, cleaning, mopping floors and shopping may be even worse for your heart. The scientists who tested over 100 working men...
02:06 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Jaipur: Annoyed over repeated quarrels, a woman allegedly murdered her husband and walled in the corpse in their house in Chomu town near here, police said. "The woman Savitri (40), a resident of Rampura village, said she was disturbed with her husband Kaluram's attitude as he used to beat her often," Circle Officer Chomu Lalchand said. On January 5, she hit 40-year-old Kaluram, a mason, with an object and strangulated...
06:26 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian man abandoned his wife after a temple medium convinced him that she was a demon who wanted to kill him. The Star newspaper on Thursday quoted the wife, who gave her name as Loh, as saying that her factory manager husband now wants a divorce and also refuses to meet their two teenage children for fear his wife will use them to kill him. "The medium...
12:40 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Rochester Hills: A Rochester Hills man who says he learned of his wife's affair by reading her e-mail on their computer faces trial February 7 on felony computer misuse charges. Thirty-three-year-old Leon Walker used his wife's password to get into her Gmail account. Clara Walker filed for a divorce, which was granted this month. Leon Walker tells The Oakland Press of Pontiac he was trying to protect the couple's children...
12:15 PM, Dec 28, 2010
Dehradun: In a shocking incident in Dehradun, a software engineer allegedly killed his wife, cut the body into pieces and hid it in a deep freezer for nearly two months. US-returned 37-year-old software engineer, Rajesh Gulati was arrested for murdering his wife on October 17. He allegedly cut up her body into several pieces and had begun disposing them off in the nearby forest before he was arrested. Gulati has...
09:53 PM, Dec 13, 2010
Dehradun: In a gruesome incident, a software engineer allegedly killed his wife, cut the body into pieces and hid it in a deep freezer for nearly two months here, police said. The incident came to light when brother of the 33-year-old victim Anupama Gulati on Sunday lodged a police complaint after he did not get satisfactorily reply from the engineer about his sister's whereabouts. Acting on the complaint, police arrested...
07:29 AM, Dec 13, 2010
In Beijing, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's wife Liu Xia remains under house arrest. ...
09:50 AM, Dec 11, 2010
London: Bizarre it may appear, but men find the idea that their better half may turn out to look like their mother-in-laws just plain scary. In fact, a new survey has revealed that it is men's greatest relationship fear. The average male is more alarmed by the prospect than by the thought of not having a girlfriend at all. Of course, all mothers-in-law are not created equal. But for 13...
12:26 PM, Oct 23, 2010
Washington: The US continued to deny an intelligence failure in the case of 26/11 accused David Headley. Authorities rejected claims made by Headley's wives saying that they did not share specific information on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. ...
11:21 AM, Oct 19, 2010
