Gurgaonwallahs are offering drop backs home, changed work timings and even self-defence classes to convince scared domestic help to come to work despite the threat of the 'braid-cutter'. A local NGO ...

A spate of braid-cutting attacks on women near the India-Pakistan border has turned into a “major law and order problem” as locals turn on each other and the authorities. More than 50 women and girls ...

A woman was today lynched at Mirganj village in Radha Nagar police station area of Sahebganj district, around 400km from the capital city, on the suspicion of being a braid-cutter (or choti katwa), ...

A dark and inexplicable mystery is fueling confrontation and deepening the divide between ordinary Kashmiris and security forces in India’s most volatile province. As many as 105 cases of ...

<p>Neena, a domestic help, tells her employers of the Sethi family, in Brijlok colony, that she won’t come to work for some time. (BCCL/ Sanjeev Gupta) (Picture for representational purpose ...