A Kerala school teacher’s social media post on the last day of his three-decade-long career opened the floodgates for a barrage of sexual harassment allegations by his former students. The 58-year-old teacher was arrested on Friday.

A mother has an absolute right to decide the child’s surname after the death of her husband and that she cannot be compelled to keep using the deceased’s surname in the records of the child, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in a judgment that reinforces a woman’s right as a natural guardian o

Chandigarh: Parents of minor children who are victims of sexual crimes cannot arrive at a compromise with the perpetrator, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled.

Nominated by the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Droupadi Murmu, 64, received 64.03% votes in the presidential electoral college, which comprises parliamentarians and state legislators.

Fertility in Pakistan has shown a stubborn resistance to change. Because of sharp declines in mortality following World War II, the population of Pakistan was growing at the rate of 2.7 percent per annum around 1960.

India was the first developing country to start a population control programme way back in 1951.

This paper demonstrates that an accelerated hazard framework is more appropriate than commonly used proportional hazard framework to model the timing of marriage and timing and spacing of children.