Finally, after weeks of international drama and some high-stakes diplomacy between nuclear-armed neighbors, all eyes were fixed … on the bride. She was spectacular in a gold silk wedding gown, embellished with ornate red embroidery and more than $35,000 worth of Swarovski crystals. Her raven hair was covered by an 18-foot red veil enriched with gold needlework. The jewels – pearls and diamonds as well as lots of gold in rich adornments — dazzled. Even the large golden nose ring she wore to signify the innocence of the bride, according to Muslim tradition, added high glamour to the entire ensemble.

The reason for the international tension and anticipation? The bride was Sania Mirza, 23, India’s top tennis champion while the groom was Pakistani cricket star Shoaib Malik. The week of marriage celebrations culminated in a lavish reception at a posh hotel in Hyderabad, India, on Thursday night.

Vibrant colors, sumptuous foods

Such is the way at South Asian weddings, where less is not more and the festivities — heady feasts of vibrant colors and sumptuous foods — go on for at least a week. The marriage of Mirza and Malik, both Muslim and two of South Asia’s most celebrated sports royalty, didn’t disappoint.

Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik at their lavish wedding feast.

More than 1,200 guests, including Bollywood stars, sports personalities, artists and politicians, feasted on dozens of ethnic, traditional and European specialties, including 12 different kinds of desserts.

Not that the press was there to report on it — Mirza’s parents barred coverage of the event after sensational headlines over the couple’s engagement set off a media frenzy that dominated the news in Pakistan and India for almost two weeks.

Sonia Gandhi, India’s best-known politician and leader of the ruling Congress Party, congratulated the couple and wished them a lifetime of prosperity. “May all your dreams come true,” she wrote.

Days of tradition

On Monday, at the official signing of a marriage document, called the nikah, Mirza wore the red sari that her mother wore 25 years ago for own nikah. Then on Tuesday, there was the mehendi, when the bride and 400 women, all family friends, had their hands, arms and feet painted in intricate patterns with henna, a vegetable dye, a centuries-old ritual, in preparation for the big reception.

A day later, it was the sangeet, an evening of traditional music and dance.

Srinivasan Kannan, the sports editor of the Indian Mail Today newspaper and a personal friend of Mirza, said the couple never took their eyes off one another. “They are besotted,” he said. “They kept glancing at each other and you could see the love in their eyes. It was all so romantic.”

Days of controversy

It may have been a picture of romantic harmony, but the days leading up to the wedding were steeped in controversy that threatened to derail the fragile diplomatic relations between Pakistan and India.

Another Indian woman, Ayesha Siddiqui, went to the police, claiming that Malik had married her in 2002 on the telephone after she sent him her picture — and that therefore he could not marry Mirza. The Indians seized Malik’s passport and opened a criminal investigation against him. Malik claimed he had been duped, that the girl in the photographs he had received was not the same girl he thought he was marrying. As emotions boiled over, South Asians were riveted.

Finally, Muslim clerics worked out a compromise. Malik sent the woman divorce papers so the marriage to Mirza could go ahead.

Government gifts

After the quickie divorce brought calm, officials from both countries embraced the union. Firdous Awan, Pakistan’s federal minister for Population and Welfare, attended the events and presented a gold crown to Mirza on behalf of the people of Sialkot, Malik’s home town. She also brought gifts from government of Pakistan.

“I am confident this marriage will better the peace process between our two countries,” she said. “Pakistanis will welcome Sania as one of their own.”

The celebrity couple now head for Pakistan where another round of marriage celebrations will begin on April 22.

The fairy tale continues.

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Sania Mirza Engaged To Former Pakistani Captain Shoaib Malik news Sports story daily news After Sania Mirza ends her engagement Mohd Sohrab Mirza

According to sources Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza is all set to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. It was well known that Sania Mirza was supposed to marry Hyderabad based Mohammed Sohrab Mirza. But that marriage was called off few months back.

The news was first leaked by Pakistani channel Geo TV and later the news was all over in Indian channels.

Shoiab Malik is expected to come to Hyderabad on April 10th from Dubai while his family members are expected to come to Hyderabad on 7th itself.

He has three older sisters and one younger brother.

Earlier Shoaib Malik has been attached to Sayali Bhagat, Indian model, actress and former Miss World. Now it is reported that Shoaib Malik is engaged to Sania Mirza and they will marry soon.

The marriage would be in May while the engagement would be in April itself.

The creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has made an odd request: for a kind of rating system to help people distinguish sites that can be trusted to tell the truth, and those that can’t.

Berners-Lee was speaking at the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, which aims to ensure that everyone in the world benefits as the web evolves.

In his speech he referred to the way fears that the LHC could destroy the world spread like wildfire online. As the BBC puts it, he explained that “there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.”

He went on to say that he didn’t think “a simple number like an IQ rating” is a good idea: “I’d be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways”. Whatever process is used to hand out the labels, it sounds like a bad idea to me.

Berners-Lee himself directed us towards some of the its biggest problems:

“On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable…A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging.”

There are plenty of arguments online already about whether Scientology is a cult. I find it unlikely anyone will be keen to step in and label sites on either side as not to be trusted. Others might reasonably argue that all religions – whether established or not – should come with a warning message.

As for wading in to put a stop to conspiracy theories, I can’t image anything their proponents could benefit from more.

Berners-Lee also mentioned the system would help people find out the real science behind, for example, the LHC’s risks. You might think handing out rating for sites about science would be easier, with publishers of peer-reviewed science, for example, receiving a top rating without problems.

But there will be papers in the archives of any journal that have been entirely superseded. And a whole lot more that present results that are valid, but can be misleading to some readers. Web licences to ensure that people only read sites they can handle are the next logical step.

Fortunately it’s much more likely that the whole idea will quietly be forgotten, which will at least prevent Berners-Lee receiving one of the first “potentially misleading” badges for thinking it up in the first place.

Let’s hope the World Wide Web Foundation and its laudable goals have a rosier future.