Bandar, Uttar Pradesh, India"They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes.The several hundred vigilante women of India's northern Uttar Pradesh state's Banda area...
NRI stands for Non-Resident Indians, the people that have either left India and living abroad or were born in another country but are of Indian origin i.e. their parents.For marriage, NRI's are seen as a haven for...
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The dowry system is so deeply rooted in Indian culture, that sometimes one feels that there's going to be no way out - at least not for another century. Even modern, well-educated families start saving up...
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One of the advantages of living in the EU is that we can import products from anywhere within the union without having to pay additional taxes at the point of import. A few years ago I imported records and CD from the island of Jersey on a regular basis. One morning the...
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Someone's got a secret plan to start a potpourri business."An Iranian court has ordered a man to give his wife the 124,000 roses that he promised in her dowry, after she filed a complaint to claim it, reports...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly a cautious Father protecting either his investment or daughter in what amounts to a financial scam, rampant in India and Canada in which payment up front in...
The Australian Federal Police foiled an internet bride scam kidnap in Bamako, Mali, West Africa which probably saved the mans life.
"A south Australian sheep farmer has warned of the perils of falling in love over the internet, after an online bride scam almost cost him his...
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::By Robert Lalmalsawm:: The Silicon Valley of India- Bangalore- may have been regarded as one of the most advanced city in the world but when it comes to dowry, the act of the bride family giving huge amount of money to the groom's family, the city is still strongly leaning...
"We all know about the problem of China's missing girls: the tens of millions of female babies who were selectively aborted after their sex was determined by ultrasound, or were born and then just allowed to die, as families seeking sons took drastic measures to cope with the...
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