Justice Rahul Chaturvedi Monday issued guidelines to prevent 'misuse' of IPC Section 498A, including two-month 'cooling period' after FIR when husband and kin can't be arrested.
Textbook of Sociology for Nurses claims dowry can be ‘helpful in establishing a new household’, and says ‘ugly-looking girls’ can be married off with an attractive dowry.
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi Monday wrote to Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan, requesting him to immediately stop the book's circulation and take it off curriculum.
Upper caste Indians are the highest dowry payers, blog on World Bank site says, using data from 40,000 marriages that took place between 1960 and 2008 in rural India.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, US, gather subtitles from 1,400 Hollywood & Bollywood movies, use AI to assess biases and social trends. Study yet to be peer-reviewed.
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.
Two recent court rulings on special laws protecting women are significant. The Supreme Court issued a set of guidelines for arresting a husband and his...
It may be fear of recession that’s driving today’s obsession with all things early ‘90s. The period was characterised by a dismal economy and large-scale unemployment.
These registrations pertain to the Indian Air Force's Agniveer Vayu programme. The online portal for the first phase was opened at 10 am Friday, and will close on 5 July.
Modi govt's biggest flaw has been its disinclination to accept limitations of electoral majorities. This ruined land acquisition and farm reform, stalled labour codes.