More Americans may now realise just how widely, even recklessly, the words aunt/ aunty are used in the subcontinent, going way beyond the n...

A social media post has ignited debate over cousin marriage within the British Pakistani community. While studies acknowledge increased gen...

The ITAT Mumbai ruled that a gift from a stepsister to her stepbrother is exempt from income tax, overturning the tax department's addition...

The public strongly supported ensuring financial support, welfare, and "maintenance" for elderly parents, increasing the minimum legal age ...

Family ties have always been far more narrow in the west, with even immediate siblings becoming distant within a generation and cousins bei...

The Kerala high court has ruled that women in live-in relationships can seek legal recourse under the Protection of Women from Domestic Vio...

Law Minister Kiren Rijiju was asked whether the government intends to introduce a "system" for "registering" live-in relationships and whet...

How often do we look for medicines that are commonly used to treat a particular disease? What if we looked for medicines to treat a particu...

Each of them wishes that the law is amended to allow foreigners in India to pay hazri (attendance) at the local police station while travel...

The symptoms aggravate due to dehydration, infection and hypoxia.

Introducing genetic tests as a norm during pregnancy might help parents make an informed decisions.

Research into genetic causes of obesity could be valuable in finding ways to treat them.

New York, Sep 9 (IANS) Researchers have identified a set of 30 inherited recessive genes that play a role in intellectual disability, a neu...

Marriages between first cousins is not unknown. To prevent the many genetic disorders such unions can cause, counseling is essential.

The court has also made sweeping and prejudicial allegations against her by relying only on allegations of the Gujarat police.

"What we do is ‘ghar vapsi’ – getting back converted people back into the fold. It is not conversion." says Jugal Kishore.