Aid for duped Indian brides
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India launches a scheme to help women who are married and then abandoned by men of Indian origin living abroad.
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A rich newlywed offers advice for the soon-to-be-hitched.
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A woman in west India strips to her underwear in public as part of a dispute with her family over a dowry payment.
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India outlines an ambitious programme aiming to help women overcome the stigma of losing their husband.
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Wedding season in northern India brings an acute shortage of white mares and pachyderms to ferry the groom in style
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JODHPUR, India  - "Is it this old woman who's getting married?" asked Kastury Ghosh, a bridal shop manager in the west Indian city of Jodhpur, as she peered over her glasses at a picture of Elizabeth Hurley.
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PATNA, India  - Young girls and their mothers huddle under shawls in the central reservation of one of the city's main streets, picking through trash for grimy metal scraps that might earn them 20 rupees (half a dollar) a day.
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The Drudge Report on Wednesday carried a banner headline proclaiming âMedia Tricked Again: Brit Faked Wedding.â It cited âdocumentsâ uncovered by US Weekly that âshow Britney Spears
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SRINAGAR, India -- Jana Begum squatted on the floor of her small kitchen with a friend, confiding to her how her life felt like a kind of purgatory, year after year spent waiting for a husband who had vanished shortly after his arrest by Indian security agents five years ago. To this day, Begum...
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Once, the Thakur of Mandawa lorded it over the merchants of his parched Silk Road region. Today, the heir to that title needs a little help from those merchants-turned-moguls
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VARANASI, India -- With her eyes closed, Ramedi cupped the murky water of the Ganges River in her hands, lifted them toward the sun, and prayed for her husband, her 15 grandchildren, and her bad hip. She, like India's other 800 million Hindus, has absolute faith that the river she calls Ganga Ma can heal.
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A group of Sri Lankans who paid to work in the Gulf were duped into travelling to Iraq, an aid agency says.
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The Indian government suggests incentives of $1,100 to people who marry members of low Hindu castes.
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VARANASI, India -- Deep in a labyrinth of stucco buildings,  in a dark, cave-like warehouse, Mohamed Javen, 18, switched on a light bulb, sat before his rickety loom and began working on what was once the prize possession of every Indian bride: the hand-woven silk sari.
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Immigration officials have smashed a criminal network operating one of the country&#39;s fastest-growing immigration scams: the bogus marriage.
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Ethnic Tamils living in Britain are being pressured into donating money to support Tiger rebels in their native Sri Lanka, facing harassment if they refuse.
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Criminals and opportunists are reported to be trying to cash in on the tsunami victims' misfortune.