For nearly a week last summer, Shanta Bai, a farmworker, says she was held captive in a chicken coop in a remote farm on the outskirts of a village in southern state of Karnataka in India. She was ...

In a tragic incident in Bengaluru, an 81-year-old widow, R Shanta Bai, was allegedly murdered by her 56-year-old son, Mahendra Singh, at their Bagalagunte residence. Police have arrested Mahendra, who ...

Mahendra allegedly struck his mother on the head with an iron rod. Neighbours, alarmed by the noise, rushed to the house and discovered Shanta Bai dead. In a deeply disturbing incident Bengaluru, an ...

India outlawed this form of forced labor: An employer pays a cash sum in exchange for weeks of labor and extracts penalties if terms are not met.... For nearly a week last summer, Shanta Bai, a ...