Day: February 8, 2007

Islamabad — “Watta satta” marriage, a long-practiced system of bartering brides among families in rural Pakistan and parts of South Asia, helps reduce domestic abuse and dowry and is generally in women’s interest, a World Bank study has said.

It …

Mumbai — Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt got some more time Thursday to surrender as a special court, hearing arguments on his bail plea in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, fixed Feb 20 as the next date.

Dutt had urged …

Chandigarh — The Election Commission Thursday postponed polling in the Beas assembly constituency to March 11 following violent incidents last week that left one person dead.

Elections to the Punjab assembly are scheduled for Feb 13.

An Election Commission spokesman …

Communication is an art which can make a relationship and if this factor is absent from a relationship than it can even break it. It’s one of the important aspect that we tend to neglect sometimes.

Giving a ear to …