India

The swing of a talon and a flurry of feathers leaves a rooster motionless, a cockfight bout viewed as cruel by many but which binds disparate Indian forest communities together.

An Indian judge has dismissed a woman’s complaint that her husband committed “unnatural sex,” because under Indian law it’s not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts, CNN reported.

Karnataka will investigate a lawmaker whose party is a key ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on suspicion of sexual harassment, the state’s chief minister has said.

The founding family of the 127-year-old US$5 billion ($6.8 billion) Godrej Group has agreed to split the conglomerate.