The HC said the law disentitles a woman from maintenance on grounds of adultery, but it could not interfere with earlier orders without evidence, which had to be established in a trial court.
Police registered 349,355 cases of domestic violence from January to May 2023, compared with 231,244 over the same period in 2022 and 190,277 in the first five months of 2021.
10-yr-old rescued from employers’ house with swollen eyes & wounds is one of many victims of child labour & abuse. Parents say don't want money, were told she'd 'have a good life'.
India recorded 22.8 lakh crimes against women between 2016 to 2021, of which about 7 lakh, or 30 per cent, were under Section 498A of IPC, says MoSPI report, released this month.
Mandeep Kaur married Ranjodhbir Singh Sandhu in India in 2015. Last month, she hanged herself at her US home after posting a video about her husband's alleged domestic abuse.
The worker, a native of Mangaldoi, said she was tortured between March 2021 and February this year at IPS officer’s Panchkula residence. She is under treatment at Safdarjung Hospital.
With the #HothurEmpowers initiative, Hothur Foundation aims to not just help the abused, but educate people & children at the grassroots level, provide them employment & mentor them psychologically.
Chingari Adalat set up in UP's Banda in 2019 is teaching women to challenge societal norms that tell them to "adjust" to suffering, and giving them the voice to demand justice.
New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic significantly altered people's lives and most significantly family dynamics. The nationwide lockdown, imposed in March last year, was especially difficult...
The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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