dowry

Bhubaneswar: Criticising contents of a textbook on 'merits and advantages' of dowry system, Rajya Sabha Member Priyanka Chaturvedi demanded the Union Ministry of Education for action against such 'regressive' textbooks. In a letter to…

By Dr Sambit Dash & Ms Tanaya Patnaik* Introduction: A spate of dowry-related crimes against women has captured headlines since a few weeks leading to uncomfortable discussions around a practice that is widely prevalent in India.…

Mumbai/Bhubaneswar: A man from Maharashtra landed in trouble after an FIR was lodged against him for demanding a tortoise with 21 toenails and a black Labrador as dowry. The man, an Indian Army jawan who hails from Nashik, had reportedly…

Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh):  A dowry dispute between two families took an ugly turn when a woman's husband and father-in-law thrashed her parents, bit her mother's nose and slashed her ear, in Nakatia area here on Sunday. The injured woman…

Kendrapara: A youth defined the concept of an 'ideal marriage' after tying the knot with a girl receiving some saplings from the bride's family as 'dowry' here in Odisha's Kendrapara district. There was neither DJ, dance, song and…

Kaptipada: Even as stringent law has been enforced against domestic violence crime, a man murdered his wife allegedly over dowry here. The incident was reported from Mahuldiha village under Kaptipada police limits in Udala in Mayurbhanj…