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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
TopicIndian weddings

Topic: Indian weddings

White domes, lavish grounds—Punjab has royal wedding palaces at half the price but no permit

Not just weddings, these palaces are prime spots to shoot music videos—Badshah’s hit ‘Top Tucker’ to Sidhu Moosewala’s ‘Burberry’.

After K-pop, K-drama, K-food, Indian fans are now getting married the Korean way

At the Rang De Korea cultural festival in Delhi Saturday, it was as if the big fat Indian wedding went on a diet and came out as a short, low-carb version.

‘Should limit guests, dishes’ — Congress MP wants Pakistan-like law to curb lavish weddings

Congress MP Jasbir Singh Gill says law should restrict baraat to 50 people, with same number of guests allowed from girl’s side too. Maximum of 11 dishes should be served, he adds.

Horses to helicopters, moustache to libraries — Dalit pride in Rajasthan has new wings

Ignoring slurs, threats and even lathis, many Dalits in Rajasthan are defying caste norms to ride horses and land in helicopters at their wedding.

In Bengaluru, marshals will now monitor weddings to ensure Covid rules are followed

Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar has made face masks compulsory at weddings, with attendance capped at 500.

India’s Zoom wedding experiment fizzled out. It didn’t have that four-day hangover

Zoom weddings taught Indians how simple and cheap weddings could be. But who wants that?

1 in 5 families likely to attend weddings & engagements this season despite Covid — survey

A LocalCircles survey conducted across 239 districts found that 38% of respondents believe the risk of Covid spreading through weddings is ‘average, low or non-existent’.

Weddings in UP don’t need written permission now, music bands not to be counted among guests

CM Yogi Adityanath says couples only need to inform authorities verbally for weddings & no police harassment of music bands or wedding venue owners will be tolerated.

From ‘big fat’ to ‘small virtual’ — Covid is the time to change Indian weddings

In Covid times, couples from Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh or UP’s Muzaffarnagar could get married in a virtual Venice’s piazza or in a villa near Lake Como.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

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.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

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.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

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.