Widow Rescued

The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a Haryana-based widow who is running from pillar to post to know the status and whereabouts of her 20-year-old daughter, an MBBS aspirant who was allegedly kidnapped from a coaching centre at Kota in Rajasthan in July 2016.

When a young Dalit widow went to meet a senior bureaucrat in Bihar, it took him exactly 24 hours to respond. He got into his car and drove 45 kilometres to the school which had sacked her.

In a heart-warming display of compassion and bravery, a dhaba owner leapt into a canal to rescue a man whose car was sent plunging into the waters following a tyre burst. Priya Kotian told mid-day that she would have become a widow just two months after her wedding had the Good Samaritan not saved her husband, Shekhar.

The Supreme Court today, while ordering the appointment of a poor widow on compassionate grounds, slammed the attitude of government authorities filing frivolous appeals.

A 32-year-old widow from Karnataka was rescued from a brothel in Kamathipura in Mumbai on Wednesday evening. The woman was forced into prostitution four years ago by some unidentified men who had given her a drink laced with drugs and then kidnapped her from Chamrajnagar district in Karnataka. The local police have arrested Shashi Ram Tamang (45), ...

The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a Haryana-based widow who is running from pillar to post to know the status and whereabouts of her 20-year-old daughter, an MBBS aspirant who was allegedly kidnapped from a coaching centre at Kota in Rajasthan in July 2016.

When a young Dalit widow went to meet a senior bureaucrat in Bihar, it took him exactly 24 hours to respond. He got into his car and drove 45 kilometres to the school which had sacked her.

In a heart-warming display of compassion and bravery, a dhaba owner leapt into a canal to rescue a man whose car was sent plunging into the waters following a tyre burst. Priya Kotian told mid-day that she would have become a widow just two months after her wedding had the Good Samaritan not saved her husband, Shekhar.

The Supreme Court today, while ordering the appointment of a poor widow on compassionate grounds, slammed the attitude of government authorities filing frivolous appeals.

A 32-year-old widow from Karnataka was rescued from a brothel in Kamathipura in Mumbai on Wednesday evening. The woman was forced into prostitution four years ago by some unidentified men who had given her a drink laced with drugs and then kidnapped her from Chamrajnagar district in Karnataka. The local police have arrested Shashi Ram Tamang (45), ...