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Have simple weddings or face boycott: Sikh leader (IANS via Yahoo! India News) - New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Cocktails, lavish luncheons and grand receptions during Sikh marriages will soon become passe. Religious leaders of the community have come up with a set of guidelines to curb ostentation associated with weddings it to rein in female foeticide.

Making Sikh weddings sober (Central Chronicle) - Good to read in the Press that "Non-veg, liquor is to be avoided in Delhi Sikh weddings". It is a fact that all religious and sacred books emphasise vegetarian food. `Prasad' served in Gurudaaras (of Sikh community) is always vegetarian. Guru Nanak Dev always consumed only vegetarian food.

Big fat Indian weddings told to slim down (News Interactive) - LEADERS of Delhi's Sikh community have called for an end to lavish weddings featuring meat and alcohol on the grounds they encourage the dowry system and female feticide.

Delhi leaders call an end to big fat Sikh weddings (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Sikh leaders in the Indian capital want an end to ostentatious weddings involving gallons of alcohol and mounds of tandoori chicken because they encourage "dowry harassment", newspapers reported on Sunday.

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Say no to big fat Sikh weddings (Montreal Gazette) - Sikh leaders in the Indian capital want an end to ostentatious weddings involving gallons of alcohol and mounds of tandoori chicken because they encourage "dowry harassment," newspapers reported yesterday.

History of Montana weddings at Bannack (The Montana Standard) - Bannack State Park will host the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers Bureau program “Something Old, Something New: A History of Montana Weddings,” with Martha Kohl on Saturday, July 28.

Sikhs urged to stop all lavish weddings (Daily Telegraph) - Sikh religious leaders have issued an edict to their community to end lavish weddings that involve days of revelry as a measure to discourage dowry demands.

India: City Life Deemed Too Cruel for Elephants (New York Times) - Mumbai, India?s largest city, has banned domesticated elephants, saying that forcing them to walk on its crowded, scorched and polluted streets was an act of cruelty. Before the ban, 14 elephants worked in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, begging for their handlers, participating in religious ceremonies or being status symbols at weddings.