Village Women Head

The Allahabad High Court has taken a strong stand on the interference of Pradhans in the work of the village council.

Indian women's boxing team head coach Bhaskar Bhatt has moved out of his room at the Commonwealth Games Village.

Residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district were in for a shock on Wednesday morning when they spotted a man calmly walking down the road with the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.

Six people were detained on Tuesday in a shocking case in which a minor girl was gang-raped, her head was shaved and she was paraded through her village as a punishment by the panchayat in Gaya district of Bihar, police said.

The Jharkhand Police has detained six people for allegedly forcibly tonsuring the heads of nine men and trimming the nails of seven women in Seraikela-Kharsawan district after they refused to perform the rituals themselves following the death of a fellow villager, police said on Monday.

A woman leading a local self-help group, supporting distressed women, was allegedly tied up by villagers and thrashed in Odisha's Balasore district. Satyabhama Behera, president of the local group, was tied to an electric pole and allegedly attacked by locals, said the police

About 50 farmers were today detained by the police in Gujarat as thousands of them protested against a government company taking over land at a village in the Bhavnagar district for a proposed brown coal plant. The local head of a farmers' group alleged that the police manhandled the protesters, including women and children, injuring at least five ...

Ram Gopal Yadav, opposition leader, advised the government today to send its ministers to a village soon. "The women, they will hit you on the head with a rolling pin," he said in parliament about public sentiment on the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

In a small village in Bundelkhand, the water that emerges from creaking hand pumps, is rarely more than a trickle. The squirt is brown, but the women lined up, desperate for water, fill their pots with it anyway and then head home.

On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the local school, where men were to head upstairs, women downstairs. A sight along the way terrified the 20-year-old even more: backhoes at work. She'd seen videos of Islamic State fighters filling mass graves. ...

Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus did she realise "something had gone very wrong".

The village head said that "just like liquor, the use of mobile phones by unmarried women was a nuisance to society".

Rahul Gandhi will visit Pendari village in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh today, where botched sterilisation surgeries have left 13 women dead.

South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...

Thirty-five people, including 20 women, were arrested from a Bihar village on Saturday on charges of burning the husband of a village head over a land dispute, police said.

The Allahabad High Court has taken a strong stand on the interference of Pradhans in the work of the village council.

Indian women's boxing team head coach Bhaskar Bhatt has moved out of his room at the Commonwealth Games Village.

Residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district were in for a shock on Wednesday morning when they spotted a man calmly walking down the road with the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.

Six people were detained on Tuesday in a shocking case in which a minor girl was gang-raped, her head was shaved and she was paraded through her village as a punishment by the panchayat in Gaya district of Bihar, police said.

The Jharkhand Police has detained six people for allegedly forcibly tonsuring the heads of nine men and trimming the nails of seven women in Seraikela-Kharsawan district after they refused to perform the rituals themselves following the death of a fellow villager, police said on Monday.

A woman leading a local self-help group, supporting distressed women, was allegedly tied up by villagers and thrashed in Odisha's Balasore district. Satyabhama Behera, president of the local group, was tied to an electric pole and allegedly attacked by locals, said the police

About 50 farmers were today detained by the police in Gujarat as thousands of them protested against a government company taking over land at a village in the Bhavnagar district for a proposed brown coal plant. The local head of a farmers' group alleged that the police manhandled the protesters, including women and children, injuring at least five ...

Ram Gopal Yadav, opposition leader, advised the government today to send its ministers to a village soon. "The women, they will hit you on the head with a rolling pin," he said in parliament about public sentiment on the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

In a small village in Bundelkhand, the water that emerges from creaking hand pumps, is rarely more than a trickle. The squirt is brown, but the women lined up, desperate for water, fill their pots with it anyway and then head home.

On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the local school, where men were to head upstairs, women downstairs. A sight along the way terrified the 20-year-old even more: backhoes at work. She'd seen videos of Islamic State fighters filling mass graves. ...

Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus did she realise "something had gone very wrong".

The village head said that "just like liquor, the use of mobile phones by unmarried women was a nuisance to society".

Rahul Gandhi will visit Pendari village in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh today, where botched sterilisation surgeries have left 13 women dead.

South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...

Thirty-five people, including 20 women, were arrested from a Bihar village on Saturday on charges of burning the husband of a village head over a land dispute, police said.