With tickets going for up to Rs 5,000, fake weddings are also a new business for wedding planners and event managers. Millennials and Gen Z are the target audience.
Premarital counselling is the newest addition to wedding rituals. For young urban Indians, love and mum’s advice aren’t enough to handle cold feet, communication gaps, and conflict.
We have learned nothing from our cousins. They were killing themselves at their weddings to impress the aunties, and we are doing the same to impress the algorithm.
Ban on celebratory firing in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri was announced by Sarv Jatiya Athgama Khap Panchayat days after 13-yr-old girl was killed during wedding procession.
Shah Rukh Khan told Karan Johar at the IIFA Awards in September that he no longer performs at wedding shows because he now sees himself as closer to the father-in-law's age than the groom's.
Global media also explores how India is fostering a wedding industry that has led to Indians spending nearly twice as much on weddings as education, on an average.
The panchayat of Sumra, a tribal village in Kinnaur district, passed a resolution last month to put a stop to wedding practices that ‘go against our culture’. Other villages may follow suit.
India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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