BANIYANI, INDIA — It’s an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker. But villagers take ...

Lord William Bentinck outlawed sati in 1829, but the law was later diluted In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu ...

BANIYANI, India — It's an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker. But villagers take ...

Mumbai, May 28 : Mumbai, May 28: Call it the sati city. The cult of Rani Sati - the presiding deity of widows burnt on their husbands' pyres - is thriving in a prosperous suburb of cosmopolitan Mumbai ...

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NEW DELHI: Hongkong-based pharmaceutical company Tayobi International has announced its entry into Indian market with Sati Pharma with an initial investment of about $2.5 million. "We are setting up a ...

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In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.