Former BJP MLA draws flak for offering job to Hindus who convert Muslim womenFormer BJP MLA Raghavendra Pratap Singh has ignited a political storm with his controversial statements. He reportedly offered financial in...
28 Oct, 2025, 08.24 PM IST
Assam will become a Muslim-majority state by 2041: CM Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam's chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, stated on Friday that the Muslim population in Assam is increasing by at least 29 to 30 percen...
20 Jul, 2024, 01.37 PM IST
Nikahnama correct but Sameer Wankhede never changed his religion, says his wifeThe NCB officer had stated that he married Dr Shabana Qureshi in 2006 under the Special Marriage Act. Both of them divorced mutually throug...
27 Oct, 2021, 06.06 PM IST
'Love Jihad' vs 'Green Card' NuptialsDoes the worry of 'love jihad' suppose that (Hindu) women lack agency? Or, that they are, despite depictions of the fiesty Kangana Ranaut i...
12 Oct, 2021, 11.34 PM IST
View: Irony of ironies - Indian ‘love jihad’ laws are modelled on Islamic lawsAround two dozen countries don’t have a provision for civil marriage between individuals of different religious faiths. Almost all these co...
05 May, 2021, 11.33 PM IST
UP's unlawful conversion law: Right wing organisations force cases on intercaste marriages through parents/relativesTake the case of a 24-year old Hindu girl who has a live-in relationship with a Muslim boy for four months and has denied that there was an...
11 Dec, 2020, 11.00 PM IST
View: Interfaith marriages must be celebrated, not criminalisedLove jihad sounds gender neutral, but in reality it’s a pernicious anti-woman term aimed at denying agency and individual freedom to women.
29 Nov, 2020, 10.27 AM IST
Hindu and Muslim Marriage laws not in consonance with PCMA: Supreme CourtThe top court said it is obvious that while making amendments to various laws, some laws are "forgotten" and consequential amendments are n...
11 Oct, 2017, 10.27 PM IST
Uniform code: Jawaharlal Nehru okayed principle, but didn’t make it a directiveNehru felt that given the pre and post-Partition violence, Muslims who had stayed back in India would feel insecure if a UCC was introduced...
23 Aug, 2017, 12.23 PM IST
Delhi High Court refuses to hear PIL to stop triple talaq on Hindu wives of Muslim menA bench said it was not inclined to go into the issue as the Supreme Court is already seized of the triple talaq matter related to changes ...
21 Apr, 2017, 03.32 PM IST
Here's how a Uniform Civil Code can be introduced without coercing minoritiesIndia's secular courts should stop adjudicating disputes on the basis of personal laws of any community be it Hindu, Muslim, Christian or P...
23 Mar, 2017, 11.00 AM IST
Pak Senate passes landmark Hindu marriage billThe Hindu Marriage Bill 2017 is the first elaborate Hindu community's personal law in Pakistan.
18 Feb, 2017, 12.03 PM IST
Pak's landmark Hindu marriage bill inches closer to enactmentThe bill to regulate marriages of minority Hindus in Pakistan moved closer to reality after a Senate committee approved the landmark draft ...
02 Jan, 2017, 07.01 PM IST
Supreme Court to revisit ruling on Parsi girls marrying non-ParsisThe same logic was once used by the Puri pandas to keep former PM Indira Gandhi out of the Puri temple although she was a Hindu by birth.
29 Aug, 2016, 03.22 AM IST
Pakistan approves Hindu Marriage Bill after decades of inactionCommittee Chairman Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk expressed regret over the long-drawn tactical delay in framing family law for the Hindu com...
09 Feb, 2016, 02.07 PM IST
Hindus, Muslims must change their mindset: Markandey KatjuIf Hindus and Muslims want to become "real Indians", they must change their mindset, Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katj...
17 Aug, 2014, 04.20 PM IST
Pakistani Hindu lawmaker Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani demands law against forced conversionVankwani, who is also the patron of the Pakistan Hindu Council, was talking to media after briefing Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) in Is...
21 May, 2014, 08.49 PM IST