The Uttar Pradesh government has removed Saharanpur Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Satish Kumar Mathur for his 'uncharitable remarks' to a man whose daughter had eloped.

The move late on Th

Shocking and irresponsible remarks by a state minister and a senior IPS officer left the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh severely embarrassed.

Durga Prasad Yadav, UP minister for stamp, co

In a case of honour killing, a man allegedly killed his 19-year-old daughter here for having an affair with a boy from another caste.

Shivnarayan Verma (45), a resident of Pardeshipura area, strangul

In a suspected case of honour killing, a man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly murdering his daughter in the Shivrajpur area of this district, police said.

The incident took place early this mo

Over 900 Pakistani women were killed last year in the name of honour for allegedly shaming their families while nearly 4,500 others were the target of domestic violence, the country's top rights watch

Three brothers were on Mondday arrested for allegedly killing their 15-year-old sister and dumping her body in a river here.

The brothers - Subhas, Lalit and Vikas - were arrested following a police

It’s Karnataka’s dirty little secret — an honour killing that the villagers of Abalawadi in Karnataka deny even happened.

On November 6, Suvarna, a 22 year old from the upper caste Vokkaliga communit

"In a suspected case of honour killing, a 20-yr-old girl was found hanging from the ceiling of her house in Lonin town near Ghaziabad," police said.

Sahitta had married about 20 days ago against th

On a summer morning in 2009, in canal locks east of Toronto, police made a grisly discovery: In a submerged Nissan car were the bodies of three teenage sisters and a 52-year-old woman.

A joyride gone

A married woman who tried to elope with her Dalit lover met a gruesome death when her husband and in-laws tried to hang her, set her on fire as she was hanging and then put her out on a burning pyre i