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Supreme Court rules to hang bride burners to stop barbaric act Punjab Newsline Network Saturday, 09 October 2010 NEW DELHI: Unless all those who burn their wives are hanged, the barbaric crime would not stop, the Supreme Court has said. "This (bride burning) is barbaric and wild...

Indian-origin woman found on London street with severed hand, honour killing suspected <!-- END HEADLINE --><!-- BEGIN STORY BODY -->Indo Asian News ServiceWed, Nov 18, 2009 - 04:44 PM London, Nov 18 (IANS) Police were reported to have arrested the estranged India-born husband of a young...

Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised to review. The new final...