India

INDIA - MORE GIRLS ARE REFUSING TO BECOME CHILD BRIDES

Despite a 2006 law banning the age-old practice, most parents in rural India still want to marry off their daughters before the legal age of 18.

India - "Holiday Brides" Abandoned by Husbands in UK, US, Canada

Khan/Getty: "Holiday brides" in India have been deserted by husbands from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

"Holiday brides" in India have been deserted by husbands from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

By Soraya Roberts
November 23, 2009

INDIA - LOST BRIDES - ARRANGED MARRIAGES GONE AWRY

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India Brides Left Behind by Overseas Husbands

Sandeep Kaur calls the volume that holds her 30-page collection of wedding photos a book of lies.

India's third gender gets own identity in voter rolls

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian election authorities Thursday granted what they called an independent identity to intersex and transsexuals in the country's voter lists.

Footage of 'witches' being abused by a mob in India

Footage of 'witches' being abused by a mob in India

India: Girl beheaded by neighbour to 'help conception'

India: Girl beheaded by neighbour to 'help conception' (The Telegraph via WUNRN)

Boy, 14, pays with life for befriending friend's sister

Mumbai: Befriending a friend's sister cost a 14-year-old boy from Kurla his life. The tailor's tag on his shirt will probably cost his three alleged killers a jail term.

Shabista (26) and 35-year-old Farmood

Muzaffarnagar: In a suspected case of honour killing, a married woman and her lover have been murdered allegedly by her brothers at Nagla village in the district, police said today.

Unknown woman

Fatehabad, April 5: The police has finally come out with the revelation that the mysterious disappearance of a 19-year-old woman from her house in Chaplamouri village on the intervening night of March

Attacks on Indian women signal rising conservatism

Mumbai: An assault on women in a pub, a kidnapping of a Hindu girl for sitting next to a Muslim boy, harassing of canoodling couples by the police and the public.