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TopicHonour killings

Topic: Honour killings

Jharkhand is the honour killing capital of India now. Haryana is second

The latest NCRB report also shows that Jharkhand constantly features in the list of top ten states when it comes to murders, with over 1,400 such cases recorded between 2021 and 2023.

Pakistan wants to revive jirgas—council of elders who ordered honour killing of Baloch couple

The killings have raised questions around institutional complicity, lack of enforcement, and the Pakistani government’s intent to revive a deeply flawed system.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

In declaring victory over the khap panchayat, we misunderstood the power structure. The real machinery of 'honour killings' never needed a banyan tree.

Radhika Yadav murder isn’t about one rogue father. Women earning for family is still taboo

Social media user were seen justifying the murder, citing “the other side” or alleging Radhika was with a Muslim man. It normalises a father's violence and communalises her death.

Tennis player’s father shot her dead over jibes about ‘living off her income’—‘insult to my dignity’

Deepak Yadav confesses to shooting Radhika thrice in the waist. She ran a tennis academy, which was a sore point in her relationship with her father.

Khaps ask Haryana CM to ban live-ins, amend law to restrict marriages in same ‘gaon, guvandh, gotra’

Amid spate of ‘honour killings’ in Haryana, khap leaders have submitted memorandum to CM saying ‘beliefs of our area, particularly north India, have been ignored' in Hindu Marriage Act.

Newlyweds who sought police cover shot dead in Haryana in 3rd case of ‘honour killing’ this month

The husband and wife had applied for police protection but later withdrew their request, say police. They were attacked at a park in Hansi city in Haryana's Hisar early Monday.

Rural Haryana is at war with love marriage—brother shoots sister, boasts on Instagram with gun

‘As police personnel, our duty is to protect the couple in the safe house, but as a Haryanvi, I know love marriages are a blot on our society," said an inspector from Narnaul.

Stolen glances to stolen lives: Stories behind the ‘honour killings’ of Rajasthan, Haryana

The news often reports ‘honour killing’ incidents, but what’s usually missing is the stories of the couples, their families, and how love can generate murderous hate.

Locked down khaps junk tech distrust, use Zoom to discuss honour killings & couples eloping

Dozens of khap representatives from Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, UP and Rajasthan are going online to address some of the social ills that continue to plague society.

On Camera

A ship attack has shaken Asia’s faith in the US

Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.

Amid the new war in Middle East, ‘God’ surfaces in oil and commodities contracts

Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.