Denying wife kitchen access is mental cruelty, rules high court; mother-in-law gets relief but husband to face trialThe Bombay High Court has ruled that barring a wife from her matrimonial home's kitchen amounts to mental cruelty. This ruling allows a cas...
12 Apr, 2026, 12.22 PM IST
'Not marrying maid': Supreme Court pulls up husband while hearing divorce caseThe Supreme Court emphasised that marriage is a partnership, not a one-sided arrangement, stating that husbands must equally share househol...
20 Mar, 2026, 09.51 PM IST
Husband has to equally participate in household chores as he is not marrying a maid: SCThe Supreme Court stated a husband must share household duties like cooking and cleaning. Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta emphasized...
20 Mar, 2026, 08.30 PM IST
Asking an educated, earning wife to contribute to household expenses is not 'cruelty': HCThe Calcutta High Court has stated that expecting an educated, working wife to help with household costs isn't 'cruelty' as defined by Sect...
05 Sep, 2025, 04.43 PM IST
Indian doctor claims paneer, milk is not vegetarian food. Netizens school her for judging 'cruelty free food'Dr. Sylvia Karpagam's claim that milk and paneer are not vegetarian foods because they come from animals sparked a heated social media deba...
07 Feb, 2025, 02.45 PM IST
Vegan food influencer gushes about her ‘guilt-free plate’, gets schooled by meat loversA new round of conversations has sparked on social media amid the ongoing clash between vegetarians and non-vegetarians. The latest trigger...
22 Oct, 2024, 10.09 AM IST
Arunachal Pradesh bans rat glue traps. Here's whyArunachal Pradesh has banned the use of glue traps to catch rats and mice, considering it illegal and inhumane. The ban came after an appea...
03 Sep, 2023, 01.04 PM IST
37 staffers of Aligarh meat export unit held for animal cruelty, Environment Quality Act violationThe arrests were made on Saturday evening following a surprise check of the unit located at Cherat in the Jawan area.
22 May, 2022, 11.10 AM IST
Annadatas crushed, cruelty hollowing out our country: Rahul Gandhi on Haryana accident"Mother India -- annadatas of the country (the food provider of the country) -- have been crushed. This cruelty and hatred are hollowing ou...
28 Oct, 2021, 07.43 PM IST
Government dilutes rules on cattle sale in animal marketThe 2017 rules notified on May 23, 2017, have been replaced with draft rules called Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Animal Markets Rule...
10 Apr, 2018, 07.33 AM IST
Ban on cattle trade for slaughter to regulate: Government to Supreme CourtThe counsel appearing for one of the petitioners told the apex court that due to the notification, serious problems have cropped up in plac...
15 Jun, 2017, 05.30 PM IST
Notice to Centre on order banning cattle trade for slaughterA vacation bench comprising Justices R K Agrawal and S K Kaul issued notice to the Centre and asked it to file response within two weeks on...
15 Jun, 2017, 12.23 PM IST
Meghalaya passes resolution opposing Centre's notification on cattle saleCutting across political lines, the members of the Assembly supported the resolution tabled by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma.
12 Jun, 2017, 07.02 PM IST
Ban on sale of cattle to hit Goa's beef eating populace: Congress"Why didn't the state government oppose the Centre's notification imposing restriction on sale of cattle for slaughtering," Goa spokesman Y...
05 Jun, 2017, 07.50 PM IST
The ban on sale of cattle for slaughter is wrong for multiple reasons. Here's whyIt will kill a large industry of meat processing and export as well as ancillary industries and curtail supply to the leather goods industr...
27 May, 2017, 08.36 PM IST
Birds have fundamental rights, can't be kept in cages: Delhi High CourtBirds have the fundamental right to "live with dignity" and fly in the sky without being kept in cages or subjected to cruelty, Delhi High ...
17 May, 2015, 09.58 AM IST
Camels cannot be slaughtered for food: AWBIAgainst the background of ensuing Bakrid festival and arrival of camels to Tamil Nadu to be offered for Qurbani, the Animal Welfare Board o...
01 Oct, 2014, 05.27 PM IST