London: Singer Bob Geldof says he went incognito as he crashed a couple's wedding celebration in India and was stunned when a guest sang one of his compositions. The 60 year old, who was on a trip with his partner Jeanne Marine during 2010 Hay Festival held in Kerala, was so curious about a traditional marriage reception they overheard and decided to join in the festivities, reported Daily Star. "I...
03:47 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Eighty per cent of the bank loans are taken by people to meet dowry demands. One woman dies every hour in our country in dowry related cases. On Sunday, May 20, Aamir Khan brought home the ugly truths about giving and accepting dowry in our big fat Indian weddings. Aamir spoke to several victims, community leaders and even a politician to get to the bottom of the issue....
01:38 PM, May 20, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Julien Gueguen-Carroll, an advocate, and his bride-to-be, Clara Cressy from Paris, would enter wedlock in the city at a rare Energy Wedding to be held at Isa Viswa Vidyalayam in Anayara on Friday.The wedding is hosted by the Global Energy Parliament, an international body of Isa Viswa Prajnana Trust. Energy wedding aims atspreading awareness against blindly following rituals. During the ceremony, the bride and bridegroom will be given special...
11:28 AM, May 18, 2012
Patna: Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled. While one incident took place in Rohtas district's Khaira village, the other was in Aurangabad's Judahi village. Savita Kumari from Khaira called off the wedding when she found her groom sloshed to the...
11:31 AM, May 02, 2012
Aamir Khan was invited by the auto driver who drove him around town in 2009 when the actor was on an ad promotional tour. ...
09:55 AM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to bring in a bill allowing registration of marriages of Sikhs under the Anand Marriage Act, 1909 meeting a long-standing demand of the community for a separate provision for them instead of being included under the Hindu Marriage Act. "The Cabinet approved introduction of a Bill in the budget session of Parliament to further amend the Anand Marriage Act, 1909 to provide...
05:41 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet has approved compulsory registration of all marriages, irrespective of the religion. The move has been prompted by the consideration to help those opting for inter-faith marriages, along with the need to make the registration of marriages a simpler affair. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday. Last month, the Union Cabinet had also approved proposals seeking amendments in the Hindu Marriage Act of...
02:05 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Filmmaker Julien Charpentier has shot a very interesting film 'The Dancing Wedding' which is about the marriage of an Indian guy and a French girl in India. The couple decide to get married as per the Indian rituals and the filmmaker has captured every moment of three days of festivities in Pune. The bride Severine and the bridegroom Rahul decide to call all the 'cool' people from all...
03:30 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Randeep Hooda is all set to play a cold blooded murderer, a character modelled around Javier Bardem's famous role in 'No Country For Old Men', in his next film 'John Day'. Randeep plays a violent, cold and menacing character with a dark sense of humor much like Anton Chigurh in 'John Day', an edge of the seat revenge drama also starring Naseeruddin Shah with whom Randeep began his...
04:45 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Mumbai: After Esha Deol's engagement with businessman beau Bharat Takhtani, everyone is eagerly waiting to hear about her D-day. But her mother and veteran actress Hema Malini says they have yet to decided the wedding date. According to a recent tabloid report, Esha and Bharat are planning to exchange the wedding vows in July, but Hema told IANS: "Wedding dates are not yet confirmed. I know a tabloid has published...
04:54 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Paris: A family lawyer says the pregnant girlfriend of a French soldier killed in a dramatic gun rampage will wed her partner in a posthumous ceremony. Lawyer Gilbert Collard says that 21-year-old Caroline Monet will marry Abel Chennouf, who was shot dead at a cash machine in the town of Montauban near Toulouse earlier this month. The 25-year-old soldier was one of seven people allegedly gunned down by Mohamed Merah,...
04:30 PM, Mar 24, 2012
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