When Shabnam was barely more than a child; her father gave her away to pay off a debt. She was about 13 years old, her husband was in his 50s, and from almost the moment she entered his house he beat her mercilessly, she said.
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‘The worst thing to be is an Afghan woman’
It’s a journey that began on World Earth Day (April 22) and concludes today, on World Environment Day. The ‘Take Care, Take Charge’ campaign, presented by The Times of India in association with Garnier, invited readers from six cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, and Kolkata to share ideas on how to save the environment.
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6 ways to save the planet
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and his daughter Supriya Sule’s defence that City Corporation’s participation in the bid for the Pune franchise of IPL in March was in the personal capacity of its MD will not stand scrutiny of law, legal experts said.
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‘Pawar, Sule can’t escape by blaming MD’
Tainted former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, has claimed that the incident couldn’t have happened as the room in which he molested the 14-year-old was ‘too cramped’.
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Couldn’t have molested Ruchika in cramped room, says Rathore
A Pakistan dismissed an appeal by interior minister Rehman Malik against his conviction in two corruption references by an accountability court and restored a three-year imprisonment awarded to him.
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Pak minister Rehman Malik faces imprisonment
We have eight people dead and 22 injured,” a spokesman for Maharashtra state police told AFP.He said an investigation was ongoing to establish the cause but the Press Trust of India news agency quoted unnamed official sources as saying …
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The cash-strapped Congress-led Democratic Front government in Maharashtra has been spending well over Rs 2 lakh a day on Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in 26/11 terror attack.
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Kasab costing Maharashtra Rs 2 lakh per day; 35 crore spent so far
In a new twist to the alleged honour killing of 22-year-old journalist Nirupama Rathak, the chief civil surgeon of the area claimed on Tuesday that at least three persons were probably involved in the murder.
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Scribe death: 3 people killed Nirupama, says doc
In a big embarrassment to the Centre and Delhi government ahead of the Commonwealth Games, a committee appointed by the Delhi High Court has said that workers at Games-related construction sites were not being paid minimum wages.
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Workers at Commonwealth Games sites an exploited lot: Panel
Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday criticised Rahul Gandhi’s statement that NSG men from North India were involved in vanquishing terrorists during Mumbai attacks, saying the remarks were an ‘insult’ to 26/11 martyrs.
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Rahul Gandhi has insulted 26/11 martyrs, says Shiv Sena
Who is Abu Jindal, believed to be the lone Indian in the Lashkar’s Karachi control room which directed the 26/11 attackers? Jindal has been sheltered by the ISI-Lashkar combine to target India by using its own nationals.
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26/11: Who was LeT’s Indian hand in Pakistan?
“Govt has nothing to do with IPL. So, Pakistan will have to draw a line between where Govt of India is connected and where Govt of India is an actor,” the external affairs minister said.
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Govt did not prompt boycott of Pak players in IPL: Krishna
Under fire for his govt’s decision to give permits only to those taxi drivers who know Marathi, the Maharashtra CM on Thursday backtracked, saying cabbies should know any local language including Hindi and Gujarati.
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Mumbai cabbies can know any local language, not just Marathi: Chavan
For the first time in its history, the UN panel with the best climate scientists in the world accepted that it had made a huge goof-up and withdrew its assertion that Himalayan glaciers will be wiped out by 2035.
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IPCC retracts 2035 alarm on Himalayan glacier melt
What was suspected after Tuesday’s auction of the Indian Premier League is now confirmed – there was indeed a consensus among the team franchisees that none of them would bid for Pakistani players.
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Inside story: All IPL teams agreed to shun Pak players