BHAIRAHAWA, Oct 2: A woman in Lumbini has lodged a complaint against her husband at the Area Police Office (APO), Lumbini, accusing him of burning her with heated ladle for not bringing along cycle in dowry.

REDDING, July 28: A wildfire that roared with little warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, leaving at least 500 structures destroyed in its wake, officials said Friday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Burning waste materials, which is restricted by national and international laws, is a normal phenomena in Tribhuvan University (TU), the oldest and biggest university of the country. Plastics are openly burned on the premises of TU in Kirtipur.

DOTI, April 6:  A teenage girl who sustained severe burns to her left arm during her period in Chhaupadi at Ganjari VDC is still groaning with pain.

As an Indian Army Officer, I was not educated on the beauty of the land but on the contours of terror

LAHORE, Pakistan, June 9: A woman in Pakistan burned her 17-year-old daughter alive on Wednesday to punish her for marrying against the family's wishes, the latest in a series of so-called "honor killings" that claim the lives of nearly 1,000 women every year in the conservative Muslim country.