On This Day in History, June 15 features landmark moments spanning law, science, war and culture. From the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215 a...

Dutch man Joran van der Sloot admits to killing a woman twenty years ago and trying to extort money from the victim's mother. Van der Sloot...

Rosa Parks Day is celebrated on December 1 in California and Missouri. Ohio, Oregon, and Texas observe it on February 4, to honor Rosa Park...

The woman had claimed that her husband was a womaniser and alcoholic and due to these vices she was deprived of her conjugal rights. The co...

The writer died from complications arising due to her Parkinson's disease.

According to the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005, you have the same right over your father’s property as your brothers do.

According to a recent Supreme Court ruling, it does not matter whether the father was alive or not in 2005, when the Hindu Succession Act 1...

In a statement, the Trust said political parties without indulging in vote bank politics should choose candidates with clean backgrounds fo...

She ran away from her home to join the circus, before taking up a job as a chorus girl on Broadway.

Succession and inheritance laws are still grey areas for many women, largely due to the lack of uniformity.

Whether you are a wife, daughter or mother, find out what you are entitled to and how you can claim it.

There is no legal concept of disowning a child, but parents can deprive a child of his share in their self-acquired property through a will.

Chinese military confers the title of "revolutionary martyr" on Yu Xu, the first lady pilot and a member of the air force aerobatics team, ...

Besides the lag in the implementation of the 2005 amendment, the Hindu inheritance law is in need of further changes for it to be rid of th...

Savitri Jindal, Asia’s richest woman and the widow of the founder of steel and power conglomerate O P Jindal Group, is the world’s fourth r...

Tests of two Chinese brands of dog treats sold at Wal-Mart stores found traces of melamine, a chemical agent that led to another massive pe...

A woman was jailed for six months after cheating an Indian national out of $69,575 by luring him via an Internet chat room with fake pictur...