The Modi government is committed to political empowerment and not "political exploitation", he said. Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad...

In an article 'Triple Talaq -- Big Reform, Better Result' which was posted by Press Information Bureau, Naqvi said triple talaq or talaq-e-...

Urging members to approve the bill, Prasad said the practice of triple talaq is continuing despite the Supreme Court banning the same throu...

Accusing the Congress of following the policy of appeasement, the BJP also referred to the "audacity" of Rahul Gandhi in not caring about t...

The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 17 to replace an ordinance issued in September.

AIADMK leader P Venugopal, TMC's Sudip Bandhopadhyay, AIMIM's Assaduddin Owaisi and Supriya Sule (NCP) also made similar demands.

The Union cabinet cleared an ordinance to make the practice of instant triple talaq a penal offence on Wednesday.

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the bill should not be opposed by Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Mamata Banerjee as it seeks to achieve gender equalit...

In the party’s first formal reaction to the government’s stand on nikah halala and polygamy, Congress has said that it is just another atte...

The remark came after the Upper House was adjourned for the day amid heated exchanges between BJP and the opposition over sending the tripl...

"We have not firmly opposed the bill as we are in favour of the women, but the bill that centre is trying to push through is politically mo...

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, which has already been passed in the Lok Sabha last week, is likely to be taken u...

Among other things, the 'Muslim women Protection of Rights on Marriage' Bill provides for a 3-year jail term to those found guilty of prono...

PM Narendra Modi attacked the Congress over its dual stand on Ayodhya and questioned Kapil Sibal for linking it with the 2019 Lok Sabha ele...

The former Union home minister said 'triple talaq' was a distortion of original Quranic legal principles and it was good that it has been d...

To BJP's demands that Congress make clear its stand on triple talaq, Azad said his party will not speak on any contentious issue in these e...

"It is not proper if this does not happen," she said, adding that the party goes by what the Architect of the Constitution had said on the ...