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“I want to get married” is a perfectly normal thing to say for a young Egyptian man. But when a girl says it in such a conservative society - let alone writes a book with that title - she is making a political statement
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Shops, businesses and schools were shut in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday to protest a visit by the Indian prime minister who inaugurated the first train...
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Islam is aggressively violent, by design; irreparably. I quote Islamic law.[Emphasis added for clarity.]
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Three people were killed and at least 20 injured in Hindu-Muslim riots at Burhanpur town in south Madhya Pradesh on Friday. The district administration clamped curfew...
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In the year 1981, Punjab and Sikhism were the hottest topics in the Indian subcontinent. A Sikh gentleman, by the name Jarnail Singh Bhrindanwale was turning into a...
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“Family against woman or 21st century women against family?”
“Two years after the law to protect women from domestic violence was enacted, it continues to be...
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Pakistan’s crackdown on organizations operating in Indian-administered Kashmir in 2003 provoked an exodus from the militant camps in Pakistani-administered...
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Let me tell you, I am not a great movie buff. Infact, I have no patience to sit and watch a three hour long movie, even in a theatre. So, better you imagine, how...
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The Times of India Delhi edition on Thursday, October 9, 2008 published an article on Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Somnath Chatterjee’s refusal to visit Britain because the...
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With the movie ‘Rock On’, people have suddenly started talking about rock a lot more but I am not sure how much will it help the Indian rock scenario....
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These were the words when Anju asked her seven year old daughter Avantika what she wanted them to get for her.Normally she asks for some toys or chocolates,It seems...
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Inter-faith dialogue has become an urgent necessity today.
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While a colonial clause is being argued in court, Nithin Manayath, a lecturer, traces the upbeat and varied journey of India’s gay community in the last decade. From...
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Suddenly being a muslim feels like being part of a community that is under a microscope. It’s like a new virus that is being examined by clinical analysts, all of...
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AP, Lucknow
Soldiers worked Saturday to rescue a 2-year-old boy trapped for more than 36 hours in a 150-foot-deep abandoned well in northern India.
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One had only to witness the contrast in the body language between the evening of the second day’s play and the morning of the third to see the shift in momentum.
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It is an unenviable title - but India’s motorized mayhem has officially made it the most dangerous place to drive in the world.
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AP, Washington
The United States and India signed an accord Friday that allows American businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to India, reversing a three-decade ban...
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AP, Washington
The United States and India have signed an accord that allows American businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to India. The pact reverses three...
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AP, New Delhi
India is expected to get its first female Roman Catholic saint on Sunday at a time when Christians have increasingly come under attack in the predominantly Hindu...
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AP, Srinagar
Police shot and killed two people and at least four protesters were wounded, as thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Indian Kashmir on Friday to protest the...
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I am not sure of the way we have moulded our cultural values and call ourselves the modern Indians. Taking a very simple yet important custom in focus – Marriage, has...
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The Norwegian government proposed a marriage law Friday that would give gay couples the same rights as heterosexuals, including church weddings, adoption and assisted...
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Britain investigated 400 cases of forced marriages last year and is also looking into whether some girls who have vanished from school registers were taken out of...
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A woman has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for organizing a green card-marriage scam for hundreds of immigrants in New York City.Beverly Mozer-Brown...
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AP, New York
A woman has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for organizing a green card-marriage scam for hundreds of immigrants in New York City.Beverly Mozer-Brown...
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A classmate of Rizwanur Rehman from his days at St.Xavier’s College, Calcutta remembers the eager young scholar devouring Indian novels in English. He was not...
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An Ohio mayor will marry couples for free _ but perhaps the bride and groom might consider a donation to his campaign fund?Mayor Randall Westfall’s e-mail...
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London is experiencing an increase in the honor killings. Thousands of young women in Britain are living in fear of the ‘hidden scourge’ of so-called honour...
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In the past decade, many Kenyan women lived in a world where they were subjected to the pain of female circumcision, ignorance of deadly disease prevention methods and...
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Addressing a recent seminar on the Travel industry, Indonesian vice president Jusuf Kalla made a very debatable remark.
The VP, in quite a humorous vein said that...
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Ask a father what kind of man he sees as prospective groom for his daughter and the unanimous answer that you’ll get will be a rich NRI.
Speedy marriage affairs...
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Divorce among Muslims had never been so easy in India; but now, thanks to the new technology of Short Messaging Service (SMS) on cell phones, it has...
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The 36 year old Princess Sayako takes her wedding vows on November 15 with her childhood friend Yoshiki Kuroda in a silent traditional Shinto wedding ceremony. The...
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Honor killing has become the part of Syrian society. Most of these crimes are committed when a daughter marries outside the community. The laws in such cases are not...
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According to the Quran women have an equal access to education as men. But in Afghanistan where majority of the people are followers of Islam, women are denied of their...
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