The verandah of the Bihari temple, in Radhakund, a few kilometers away from the Hindu temple town of Vrindavan, comes alive with chants and grateful ululations at 11 o’clock every morning as widows in ...

VRINDAVAN, India (AP) — Aruna Samaddar threw fistfuls of colored powder into the air. Blue and red and green, the cheerful colors settled on her white sari and all over other women nearby. In most of ...

Umabai Kundapur, a forgotten heroine of India’s freedom struggle, defied widowhood to mobilise 150 women, support Gandhi, and ...

The author rescues Young Bengal, lost in the fog of misinformation and apathy, in her new book, with startling resonances for ...

Suttee, the old Hindu custom of widow’s suicide on the funeral pyre, has been banned in India since 1829; today it occurs rarely and then only in inaccessible villages in backward regions. No one had ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Widows of farmers who have committed suicide in western India face abuse and threats to their children's safety when they demand their inheritance, highlighting ...

Captain Ravindra Nath Mishra was shot dead in 1995 by his own constable. The Jharkhand High Court pulled up the Union and the ...

When her husband was alive, 24-year-old Shweta would only leave her house in Delhi to pick up her daughter from school. That changed after the field worker died during the first wave of COVID-19 in ...

NEW DELHI – A book addressing farmer suicides and the struggles of women farmers in rural India was a key feature at the ongoing World Book Fair. Widows of Vidarbha, authored by journalist Kota ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a significant 100% increase in financial assistance for India's ex-servicemen, ...

An Indian lawmaker has been criticised for blaming women survivors of the deadly Kashmir terror attack for not fighting back against the armed gunmen to save the ...

LAHIRIPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Geeta Mridha lost her husband on Valentine's Day 2014. He was fishing in the backwaters of India's Sundarbans National Park with four others when a ...