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In the 1930s, workers clearing plantation land in Costa Rica accidentally revealed mysterious stone spheres from a buried pre-Columbian worldGiant stone spheres were found in southern Costa Rica during the 1930s and 1940s. These spheres were part of a larger settlement network in...- Family pension denied to daughter over divorce timing; Tripura High Court ruling explainedA daughter has been denied her father's family pension by the Tripura High Court. She divorced her husband after her father's passing. The ...
- SC hints at striking down practice of Talaq-e-HasanThe Supreme Court's deliberation on Talaq-e-Hasan, a Muslim divorce custom, marks a significant turning point. Justices hinted at the possi...
- HC refuses to entertain plea challenging assumed absolute discretion of Muslim husband to give divorce to wifeThe Delhi High Court has rejected two petitions challenging the Muslim husband's authority to pronounce divorce (talaq-ul-sunnat) without r...
- SC seeks centre's views on pleas challenging polygamy, Nikah HalalaHolding that the issues were "very serious and important", the top court in 2018 had constituted a five-judge constitution bench to adjudic...
- Draft law on triple talaq: Three years jail term for husband, BMMA welcomes moveThe bill also proposes social security and other safeguards for victims, besides giving options to the wife to seek custody of minor childr...
- Modi government may bring legislation to end Triple Talaq this Winter SessionTriple Talaq is a form of divorce followed by Muslims in India. It has been at the centre of the controversy for a long period.
- View: Supreme Court remains pillar of Indian democracyOn the whole, the Supreme Court lives up to the expectation that it would serve as a solid pillar of Indian democracy.
- Overturned: Verdict by Supreme Court's Raj-era avatarThe first reported verdict pertaining to triple talaq was delivered in a Bombay case in 1906 in which Justice Batchelor had termed triple t...
- Road ahead: End of triple talaq a gateway to Uniform Civil Code?With SC upholding the dignity of Muslim women by abolishing the discriminatory triple talaq, similar gender justice may be on the anvil for...
- Alienated by triple talaq, Muslim women see hope in Supreme CourtSupreme Court will hear from tomorrow a clutch of petitions on the issue, that is a tussle between orthodoxy and reform in the community.
- Triple talaq "cruel" and "most demeaning", says Allahabad High CourtHowever, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has opposed the Centre's move against the triple talaq.
- Ban on polygamy encourages illicit sex; men judicious enough to use triple talaq: AIMPLBAIMPLB said that Islam permitted polygamy but did not encourage it.
- Supreme Court asks Centre to file committee report on personal lawsA bench comprising Chief justice TS Thakur and Justice UU Lalit asked Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, ...
- SC can't question Muslim personal law: JamiatThe assertion marks a challenge to the intent to extend gender equality to Muslim women and can open a fresh phase in the fraught debate.
- Muslim body Jamait Ulama I Hind opposes SC's attempt to do Shah Bano IIThe 1985 court intervention in favour of Muslim women in the Shah Bano case had turned politically acrimonious, with Parliament passing a l...
- Court can't test validity of personal law: Muslim group to Supreme CourtIt had noted that the issue was not merely a policy matter but concerns the fundamental rights of women guaranteed under the Constitution.
- Supreme Court to examine validity of Muslim divorce, polygamyThe court passed the order while adjudicating a woman's plea seeking share in ancestral property of her father under the Hindu Succession A...
- Supreme Court prods Centre on uniform civil code; expresses concern over arbitrary divorcesThe court insisted that the issue cannot be left to state policy as it involved the Fundamental Rights of a particular section of women.
- Police against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh's bail, court to give order tomorrowPolice said Dhananjay Singh, arrested in connection with the murder of their maid, had incited his spouse to beat the servants.
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