Banda (Uttar Pradesh), May 25: Ramkumari died on her husband’s pyre earlier this month. No one is certain whether it was sati or suicide. But Banhudarhi, a village near Allahabad, has found its new ...

Lucknow, Aug. 4: Sangeeta Singh, 32, was saved from becoming a sati just in time after she had been dragged to her husband’s pyre in front of her three-year-old daughter in a Fatehpur village ...

NEW DELHI, Aug 23: An Indian woman threw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, killing herself in line with an old Hindu custom that persists in rural pockets of India despite a nearly two-century ...

A 50-year-old woman’s body was found near her husband’s pyre at Lohata village in Latur district of Maharashtra on Tuesday. The incident sparked rumours of the woman having committed ‘sati- a ritual ...

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 ...

Police in India say a 65-year-old woman has burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre committing the outlawed practice of "sati". The incident took place on Tuesday in the central state of Madhya ...

Blood Moon in UAE: Top spots to watch lunar eclipse on September 7 Patna - A 70-year-old woman allegedly committed “Sati” by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband at a Bihar village, police ...

Indian police have arrested four brothers for allegedly throwing their 95-year-old mother onto their father's funeral pyre, in accordance with an old but illegal Hindu custom. The incident took place ...

A 78-year-old Indian woman killed herself by jumping on to her husband’s funeral pyre, police said on Monday, following the ancient Hindu custom of Sati outlawed in the 19th century. Sita Devi’s body ...

NEW DELHI - Police have arrested seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow for doing nothing to prevent the woman from killing herself by jumping into her husband's funeral pyre, officials say. Lalmati ...

India's coalition government is coming under pressure to give national monument status to 300 temples across the country that glorify the burning of widows. The Hindu custom known as "sati", by which ...