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The traditional Hindu wedding lasted 36 minutes and 33 seconds, but the couple hope it will set a world endurance record for a marriage underwater.

For Prasad, disability is no bar to reaching the top

College seats for medicine and engineering, the most coveted by Indian students, are being sold to the highest bidders in Maharshtra. Bribes are not only being openly demanded, they have jumped from Rs200,000 to a cool Rs2 million.

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Big B announces Dubai as host

Sindhudurg: 121 km of shimmering white beaches, forests and wildlife

In a sudden move, the Maharashtra government transferred P. S. Pasricha, who took over the Mumbai police commissioner's post less than three months ago from R. S. Sharma.

The fashion industry may still be at a nascent stage but it is only a matter of time when overseas designers will start outsourcing from India, particularly for Indian handcrafted textiles, say fashion experts.

Mumbai may boast of being the nation's commercial and industrial capital but is highly insensitive to the needs of disabled people. Facilities for disabled people are non-existent in schools, colleges, residential and public buildings, shops, parks, trains, buses or just anywhere.

Nearly a fortnight after a mob calling itself the Sambhaji Brigade vandalised a research institute in Pune, the Maharashtra government has decided to ban the controversial book Shivaji: The Hindu King in Islamic India by American historian James W Laine