Prime Minister Narendra Modi's estranged wife, Jashodaben, has filed an RTI application asking for an explanation of the sort of security that she gets from the government. After Mr Modi was elected in May, Jashodaben wa...

Dr. Kelly M.Flanagan writes on his ( Marital communication is getting a bad rap. It’s like the kid who fights back on the playground. The playground supervisors hear a commotion and turn their heads just in time to see h...

Reasons why marriages fail. This is one relationship that is taken for granted, couples start off with pleasing each other to accepting each other and then just taking each other for granted. Yes, you need to be yourself...

When do you know that the relationship is not working out anymore? And when are you sure that its not the midlife crisis that’s saying you don’t like your partner anymore …When does it occur to you that not only you are...

Book of the month: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn * Cheers! We have completed an entire year of our book-club, “Chai, Chat with Books”. We had our very first meeting in September 2012 hosted by Vasavi Chaka. This was followe...

Book of the month : Paris Wife by Paula McLain Summer season was heralded by a hot discussion on the book of the month, ‘Paris Wife’. The book’s theme is the joys, trials and tribulations shared by Ernest Hemingway and h...

states that soldiers-both jawans and officers should be allowed to take regular vacation and leaves. It keeps the men of the army away from extra marital affairs and other flirtatious activities. This study was conducted...

Father put the six-week old baby in the freezer to stop her from crying. Stupid or mentally unstable? Hard to say. The child may survive but has a broken hand, broken leg, head injury and blisters on the feet due to extr...

The appearance of Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi in the Chicago area for a cultural event drew the kind of attention that visits by prominent figures from Indian arts and letters reliably generate in communities with larg...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's parliament on Wednesday night as the country become the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legaliz...

Excuse me while I play the cranky feminist for a minute, but I'm disheartened every time I sign into Facebook and see a list of female names I don't recognize. You got married, congratulations! But why, in 2013, does get...

With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the words that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married. Guests erupt...

Even as the hoopla over the grandest wedding in the town approaches its crescendo, Saif Ali Khan entered into matrimony with five year long girlfriend Kareena Kapoor today in Mumbai. The high profile couple of Bollywood...

The CID on Monday arrested a software engineer, Sai Kumar, 28, employed with Mahindra Satyam in the US, when he arrived at Shamshabad airport, for defaming his former colleague by hacking into her email IDs and creating...

Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused. They are both friendly white women from modest Midwestern backgrounds who left...

It seems unloading on her three daughters in her time of need has resulted in the breakdown of Demi Moore's relationship with her girls - who are now 'considering a...

India's Supreme Court ruled that sex obtained through a false promise of marriage constitutes rape under the Indian Penal Code, a judgment with significant practical implications for how consent is understood in a societ...

The speculation about whether Hillary Clinton might be tapped as Barack Obama's running mate for the 2012 election — replacing Joe Biden on the ticket — circulated periodically through 2011 and into 2012, driven partly b...

Relationships involving significant differences in public profile come with their own particular pressures, and the partnership between actress Vidya Balan and UTV Motion Pictures head Siddharth Roy Kapur was, from the o...

For decades, the common-sense assumption was that living together before marriage would reduce divorce rates — that couples who tested their compatibility under the same roof before making a legal commitment would be bet...

Fraudulent marriage arrangements in which siblings or other relatives pair up with foreign nationals willing to participate in exchange for payment—creating immigration paperwork supporting a spousal visa application wit...

A prenuptial agreement that included a clause prohibiting either spouse from gaining more than a specified amount of weight during the marriage — with financial penalties attached to violations — attracted significant at...

The question of why marriages fail has occupied psychologists, sociologists, theologians, and divorce lawyers for as long as marriage has existed as a legal and social institution. What the research over the past half-ce...

Continuing on our series around relationships especially for married couples, read an interesting article at NYT recently. It talks about how the key to long and happy married life does not lie in more money, looks, powe...

Facebook by 2010 had migrated from college dorm novelty to genuine social infrastructure — the place where extended family reconnected, old friends resurfaced, and professional acquaintances observed each other in contex...