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India: Bride refuses to marry after finding groom wearing a wig

No amount of persuasion from her family could convince bride to reconsider

Published:  February 25, 2022 10:27

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Etawah:  bride refused to marry the groom on the wedding day after she saw him wearing a wig.

The incident took place in the Bharthana area of the Etawah district on Wednesday night.

The groom, Ajay Kumar, had to return home without getting married.

According to reports, when the garland exchange ceremony was underway, the bride noticed that Ajay was extra cautious and repeatedly adjusting his traditional headgear.

Someone told the bride that the groom was actually bald and was wearing a wig on his head. The bride fainted and fell on the stage.

Later, when she regained consciousness, she refused to marry the groom.

No amount of persuasion from her family could convince her and the baraat finally retuned without the bride.

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Camel hugs ex-owner upon meeting him, refuses to let go

Published:  February 14, 2022 13:48

Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor

Dubai: A video clip of camel "hugging" its ex-owner has gone viral on social media across Saudi Arabia.

According to media reports, a Saudi man sold his camel to someone else and after sometime, it so happened that the ex-owner went to check on his old camel. However, he was surprised to see the camel's reaction.

The video also shows the camel curling its neck around the man and refusing to let go. It was reported that someone tried to pull the camel away but it refused.

Camels are the national animal of Saudi Arabia and are native to the Arabian Peninsula, with a long history of accompanying Saudis as far back as time recorded, according to tourism website Visit Saudi.

Often deemed as the ‘ship of the desert’ and ‘Ata Allah’ (which translates to the ‘Gift of God’), camels are a very important part of Saudi cultural heritage because they used to be an essential part of the lives of people before cars arrived.

For centuries, camels provided them with a lot of basic life necessities such as transport, milk, food, and clothing.

Another Indian Wedding Fail as Groom Didn't Add-up

This is the third great Indian wedding story in the past month

In February, an Indian bride married a guest when her groom had an epileptic fit at the altar. The day before, a rejected bride in a flimsily arranged marriage started a hunger strike outside her 'wouldn't-be' in-laws home.

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An Indian bride has walked out of her wedding after her bridegroom-to-be failed to solve a simple maths problem, according to police in Uttar Pradesh.

The bride asked the groom to add 15 and six. When he replied 17, she called off the marriage.

Reports say the groom's family tried to convince the bride to return, but she refused saying the man was illiterate.

Local police said they mediated between the families, and both sides returned all the gifts given before the wedding.

Most marriages in India are arranged by the families, and it is common for a bride and groom to get married without spending time in each other's company.

A police official of Rasoolabad village where the incident happened told BBC Hindi that local resident Mohar Singh had fixed his daughter Lovely's wedding to a man called Ram Baran.

"But just before the marriage ceremony Lovely came to know that Ram Baran is illiterate and she refused to marry," he said.

Mohar Singh told the Associated Press news agency that the "groom's family had kept us in the dark about his poor education".

"Even a first grader can answer this [the maths test]," he said.

Last month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a guest at her wedding after her groom-to-be had a seizure and collapsed.

Reports said the groom was epileptic and he had kept the information from the bride and her family.