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In the holy Hindu city of Varanasi, just a short walk from the sacred river Ganges is the mukti bhavan. This hotel is the last destination, a final stopover for elderly Hindus, for those who come to die. Hoping they will shortly end up on one of the...
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At the rate rape is gaining prominence in media, I wonder if it should be designated as national/most popular sport (at least among male). Forget ladies even...
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Phool Bai, you are just a woman, that too a poor, village woman belonging to that class, how did you dare to commit such a crime. You dared to speak to your father-in...
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Seven New York police officers are being disciplined for poorly handling domestic violence calls to a woman’s home days before officials say her ex-boyfriend...
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A Northern California woman who has the same name as the Sunday school teacher charged with murdering an 8-year-old girl says she is getting death threats from people...
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A man who killed himself as investigators sought to question him about a missing Tennessee woman had partied with the part-time model in Memphis shortly before she...
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The sentencing of a 75-year-old widow to 40 lashes and four months in prison for mingling with two young men who were reportedly bringing her bread has sparked new...
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If you thought that just by stopping education for woman and prohibiting them from moving anywhere without a male escort and having them covered from top to toe would...
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Dubbed “Woman, Sweet 10 Diamonds,” this CD comes for a whopping $100,000, which makes it the world’s most expensive CD. Made with a platinum case and...
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Good student. Starting quarterback. Aspiring hunter. By most accounts, 11-year-old Jordan Brown was a typical boy in his rural Pennsylvania community, albeit raised...
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An 11-year-old western Pennsylvania boy accused of killing his father’s pregnant fiancee may be moved again to an adult jail because it’s less expensive...
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There were three news reports in the newspaper last week which troubled my conscience. First, The editor Ravindra Kumar and publisher Anand Sinha of ‘The...
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Teenagers today are cult followers living in a world made of rock and roll dreams, refusing to acknowledge time tested support systems to fall back upon when things go...
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Why would a 30-plus year-old man be interested in an 8-year-old girl? What could he possibly find in common with a child of that age, a pre-pubescent who has yet to...
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Rape is one of the inhumanity actions and it is accepted as a crime in any country and in any law. Also in our religion Islam it is totally prohibited and a person does...
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Normally I would have just glanced over this article and left it alone for two reasons.
One, I don’t know what all the circumstances were.
Two. There is enough...
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They were arrested for dancing in a wedding function and they were made to dance through the night for the police, by the police, and at a police station. The story of...
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An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy charged with killing his father’s pregnant fiancee has left a county jail and is on his way to a juvenile facility.
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An 11-year-old boy charged with killing his father’s pregnant fiancee will be moved from a county jail to a juvenile facility under a court order issued Tuesday.
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An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy charged with killing his father’s pregnant fiancee will be moved from a county jail to a juvenile facility under a court order...
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The mother of a slain pregnant woman says the 11-year-old boy accused in the killing had been making threats about harming her for a while.
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Zuric -based photographer Fazal Sheikh has tried to capture the other facet of the otherwise holy city of Vrindavan in his book ‘Moksha’.
He has...
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