Somewhere along the way, we stopped getting married for the person and started getting married for the performance. In India, ...

There was a time when marriage in India wasn’t a personal decision—it was a rite of passage. A box to tick. A social contract ...

You must have come across many people wearing different coloured threads on various parts of their body Wearing sacred threads is a common practice in Hinduism You will find people wearing threads of ...

Jeevna and Ben, attorneys from New Jersey and North Potomac, respectively, met as students at George Washington Law School, ...

In 1963 the peacock was declared the National Bird of India because of its rich religious and legendary involvement in Indian traditions The criteria for this choice were many The bird must be welldis ...

To the unbiased alien from Neptune, arranged marriages come with their own pros and cons. On one hand, there are two families supervising the chaos of a wedding. There’s someone to plan and ...

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday that the state government will build four industrial parks and an international convention centre along with a 100-room hotel in North Bengal.

"Backstabbed every time": all-party delegation urges diplomatic isolation of Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism ...

North Carolina has over 60 official state symbols. These symbols include the state bird (cardinal), flower (dogwood), and tree (pine). The state also has official designations for a reptile ...

Kolkata consumers have major reasons for cheer just ahead of the oncoming wedding season as prices of gold, a staple in Indian marriages, have fallen quite a bit -- by almost Rs 9,000 per 10 grams.