BHOPAL: A woman from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, has filed for divorce after eight months of marriage because her husband took her to Varanasi and Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, along with his parents, instead of Goa for their honeymoon, an official reported. The divorce application is currently under consideration during the counseling stage, and efforts are … Read more
NEW DELHI: Less than a quarter of rural households and under two-thirds of urban ones in India reported having piped water for drinking in their houses or yard, according to a report just released by the National Statistical Office. About 70% of the rural households reported having exclusive access to a latrine while 21. 3% … Read more
HYDERABAD: A wedding organised on the outskirts of the city was cancelled by the bride at the last minute, ostensibly because of low dowry. She demanded more than Rs 2 lakh, which was paid by the groom’s family in keeping with the tribe’s custom of “reverse dowry” paid to prospective brides.The wedding was scheduled for … Read more
LUCKNOW: Heavy rains lashed several parts of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, claiming at least nine lives and throwing common life out of gear. Authorities of a dozen districts, including Lucknow, Aligarh, Meerut, Gautam Buddh Nagar, and Ghaziabad, ordered closure of schools on Monday in the wake of heavy rains. In Aligarh, all schools up to … Read more
A majority of women in West Bengal and Jharkhand were married by the age of 21, while the proportion in Jammu and Kashmir was less than 10% in 2020. In Delhi, over 17% of women married before 21. In the country as a whole, nearly 30% of women married by the time they were 21, … Read more
NEW DELHI: During his two-day visit to Germany, Prime Minister Narendra Modi not only met his counterparts from the United Kingdom, Japan and Italy, besides other world leaders, and exchanged views on a range of issues with them, but also gifted them a range of Indian artefacts, made in places across the country, from Jammu … Read more
NEW DELHI: The railways on Friday evening announced to cancel more passenger trains till May 24 – raising the number from 670 to 753 trips of 42 trains — to free up tracks for coal rakes as peak demand scaled a new peak of 207 gigawatts on Friday, leading to fuel inventories depleting to average … Read more
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said here on Wednesday that his government gives equal respect to all faiths, but if people indulge in ugly display of their faith to harass others, it won’t be tolerated. Speaking to ground-level officers through a video-conferencing, he said that the show of communal amity on the occasion of Ram … Read more
LUCKNOW: The birth certificate officially gets a twin in UP: the caste certificate. A meeting chaired by CM Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday decided to institutionalise dual certificates — of birth and caste — for every newborn child within 15 days of an application being made. The decision is seen as an extension of BJP’s renewed … Read more