Killed For Pride

A year after New York City's jubilant pride parade celebrated a high point for gay Americans with the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, the atmosphere surrounding the annual march couldn't be more different.

An Israeli court today sentenced an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man to life in prison for stabbing participants at a Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding others.

My heart swells with pride as I see my cake begin to rise in the oven. Its going to take a while to cook. Eh, might as well do something. Off I go to watch some TV without thinking of the evil plans my oven has for my cake.I am hooked to Grey's Anatomy...

In yet another case of suspected dishonour killing, badly decomposed bodies of a boy and a girl, who had allegedly eloped recently, were recovered from a village in Sirsa district of Haryana.     The bodies of Inderpal (25) and Maya (21), both residents of Phoolka village in the district, were recovered from the fields of adjoin...

Notwithstanding a spate of so called dishonour killings in northern states, a new study shows that a massive 92 per cent of the people in this region disapprove of such crimes.       The study commissioned by National Commission of Women interviewed both urban and rural people out of which 46 percent agreed that the Kh...

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...

A year after New York City's jubilant pride parade celebrated a high point for gay Americans with the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, the atmosphere surrounding the annual march couldn't be more different.

An Israeli court today sentenced an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man to life in prison for stabbing participants at a Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding others.

My heart swells with pride as I see my cake begin to rise in the oven. Its going to take a while to cook. Eh, might as well do something. Off I go to watch some TV without thinking of the evil plans my oven has for my cake.I am hooked to Grey's Anatomy...

In yet another case of suspected dishonour killing, badly decomposed bodies of a boy and a girl, who had allegedly eloped recently, were recovered from a village in Sirsa district of Haryana.     The bodies of Inderpal (25) and Maya (21), both residents of Phoolka village in the district, were recovered from the fields of adjoin...

Notwithstanding a spate of so called dishonour killings in northern states, a new study shows that a massive 92 per cent of the people in this region disapprove of such crimes.       The study commissioned by National Commission of Women interviewed both urban and rural people out of which 46 percent agreed that the Kh...

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...