NCRB data pegs conviction rate in cases of dowry-related violence at 11-17%. Experts say the low rates are rooted in a mix of factors, including institutional indifference.
New Delhi: India’s entertainment industry is going through a “blockbuster famine” and is lining up a series of local and Hollywood films to get people back...
Dowry Prohibition Act makes exception for gifts given to bride at marriage, and rules have been laid down for making of such lists. Allahabad HC last week stressed importance of the act.
Patna High Court says dowry has been expanded from restrictive meaning and can include such money / property / security which is given as “consideration for marriage”.
Researchers from Rice University in US studied the relationship between dowry payments and Indian women's post-marital status by using amendments to the anti-dowry law.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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