A Bengaluru techie's suicide sparks calls for reform of Section 498A. Advocate Vikas Pahwa highlights misuse of the anti-dowry harassment l...

Reiterating that relaxing the ban for visitors from outside was out of question, the Chief Minister claimed his decision to impose prohibit...

The chief minister, who made the state dry in April 2016, made his views known at a gathering in this north Bihar district, which he visite...

In the judgement, the Supreme Court had observed that "law cannot be hidebound and static. It has to evolve and change with the needs of so...

A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna, while disposing of the PIL said, "A dialogue on considering what measures would suppor...

It is necessary for such a party to oppose majoritarian politics and the Sangh Parivar, and bring likeminded parties, particularly breakawa...

Speaking to ET, Prasad said there was such a suggestion and the “government will surely look into having separate magistrate courts” for th...

A SC bench today said a fresh five-judge constitution bench would be set up to deal with the constitutionality of 'nikah halala' and polyga...

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has maintained that it is against the practice of triple talaq, but has also opposed a proposed bil...

Dumping the Hindu Code will take the wind out of the sails of all those who allege that UCC is a ploy to Hinduise Muslims and Christians, K...

He recalled that laws were enacted to rid certain evil practices even in the Hindu society, like child marriage, sati and dowry.

Supreme Court will hear from tomorrow a clutch of petitions on the issue, that is a tussle between orthodoxy and reform in the community.

Though the crime could qualify for the rarest-of-the rare criteria for awarding the death penalty, the court took a different view after co...

A 2015 study, released by the BMMA that has been working for over a decade for the abolishment of the practice, showed that nearly one in 1...

NGO working for the protection of men's rights in the country today said the juvenile convict in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case deserves a se...

Now, the offence is non-compoundable and non-bailable which provides for immediate arrest of the accused.

Laws to check gender discrimination and son preference in the country are often ineffective and sometimes may advance discriminatory practi...