Widows News

Hundreds of farmers came to Delhi to tell their stories, but their problems are similar: crop failures, rising debt, losses from farming due to low crop prices leading to suicides

Farooq Abdullah also asks Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat to look into the condition of these widows before talking about war

Lloyds Banking Group says about 1,000 staff in its insurance division that they will be moving to Diligenta, a subsidiary of India's Tata Consultancy Services

For the past decade, war widows have converged here and built by hand their mud homes on a slope above a cemetery in an eastern neighbourhood of the Afghan capital Afghanistan, Afghan widows, Zanabad, cemetry, Kabul

The Supreme Court imposed a cost of Rs1 lakh on the government for not coming out with the agreed directions to improve the condition of destitute widows

Alone and without financial support, the women and their children are usually thrown out of their homes by their in-laws, denied ownership of the land they worked on and are not given any compensation from the government

With the extension, the OROP implementation committee can submit its report by 14 December

Beed has witnessed the highest number of farmer suicides in Marathwada since 2012. How do the widows and their children cope?

Armed forces veterans, war widows and their children were among those who received the least amount of CSR funds in FY15

The women and child development ministry says it has also approved construction of a large home for widows in Vrindavan