Widowed Father

Grief-stricken widow Fatema Begum wept when hospital staff said her husband had been killed in the unrest that has roiled Bangladesh for nearly a week. She wept again when they refused to hand over his body.

In Nagaland's Oting village, grief has many faces today. A woman widowed 12 days after her wedding. A father battling cancer. A mother who thought her sons would look after her in her old age.

Is a divorced woman entitled to her freedom fighter father's family pension like an unmarried or widowed daughter?

It took courage for Srujana (name changed) to speak up against the man she called Daddy'. Eight years ago, he had married her widowed mother and virtually adopted Srujana and her sister. In April, after the 13-year-old had her first periods, he sexually assaulted her when her mother was away at work. He told her if she told anyone, he would not loo...

Isabella Pieri has become very good at taking care of herself. The 11-year-old gets ready for school on her own ever since her mother died two years ago from a rare disease. Her father, who leaves for work early in the morning, has stepped up to the challenge of parenting on his own. But there are a few aspects of having a daughter that remain baff...

Kulbhushan Jadhav was forced to see his mother and wife in the form of "widows", without their mangalsutra, bindi and bangles, when they met in Islamabad, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said in a stinging statement in parliament on the way the family was treated in Pakistan. "The first question that Kulbhushan Jadhav asked his mother during their m...

Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.

The widow of one of the Pakistani men shot dead by CIA contractor Raymond Davis was murdered on Monday along with her mother in Lahore following a family dispute over the blood money and her desire to remarry, police officials said. Twenty three-year-old Zehra and her mother Nabeela were shot dead in their home in Township area of Lahore by her fat...

Daniel Radcliffe is worried that his fans will have a hard time accepting him in the role of a widowed father in upcoming film 'The Woman in Black'.

A man murdered his son in Andhra's Rajahmundry on Thursday for allegedly attempting to rape his own widow sister in an inebriated condition, police said.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is the latest addition to the global fan club of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the economist who opened India's economy in the 1990s and struck a landmark nuclear deal with the US. ",You are the leader of modern India,", Zardari, the widower of the slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, told Manmoh...

Grief-stricken widow Fatema Begum wept when hospital staff said her husband had been killed in the unrest that has roiled Bangladesh for nearly a week. She wept again when they refused to hand over his body.

In Nagaland's Oting village, grief has many faces today. A woman widowed 12 days after her wedding. A father battling cancer. A mother who thought her sons would look after her in her old age.

Is a divorced woman entitled to her freedom fighter father's family pension like an unmarried or widowed daughter?

It took courage for Srujana (name changed) to speak up against the man she called Daddy'. Eight years ago, he had married her widowed mother and virtually adopted Srujana and her sister. In April, after the 13-year-old had her first periods, he sexually assaulted her when her mother was away at work. He told her if she told anyone, he would not loo...

Isabella Pieri has become very good at taking care of herself. The 11-year-old gets ready for school on her own ever since her mother died two years ago from a rare disease. Her father, who leaves for work early in the morning, has stepped up to the challenge of parenting on his own. But there are a few aspects of having a daughter that remain baff...

Kulbhushan Jadhav was forced to see his mother and wife in the form of "widows", without their mangalsutra, bindi and bangles, when they met in Islamabad, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said in a stinging statement in parliament on the way the family was treated in Pakistan. "The first question that Kulbhushan Jadhav asked his mother during their m...

Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.

The widow of one of the Pakistani men shot dead by CIA contractor Raymond Davis was murdered on Monday along with her mother in Lahore following a family dispute over the blood money and her desire to remarry, police officials said. Twenty three-year-old Zehra and her mother Nabeela were shot dead in their home in Township area of Lahore by her fat...

Daniel Radcliffe is worried that his fans will have a hard time accepting him in the role of a widowed father in upcoming film 'The Woman in Black'.

A man murdered his son in Andhra's Rajahmundry on Thursday for allegedly attempting to rape his own widow sister in an inebriated condition, police said.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is the latest addition to the global fan club of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the economist who opened India's economy in the 1990s and struck a landmark nuclear deal with the US. ",You are the leader of modern India,", Zardari, the widower of the slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, told Manmoh...