Why some divorce grounds apply only to wives: Supreme Court rejects a man's plea challenging the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging a provision of the Hindu Marriage Act that allows on...
11 May, 2026, 05.38 PM IST
Sabarimala Row: Supreme Court asks if non-believers can claim temple entry rightsThe Supreme Court is examining the right of entry to religious places. A nine-judge bench questioned how a non-believer from North India co...
29 Apr, 2026, 01.59 PM IST
Sabarimala case: Will Constitution not come to rescue of believer who is not allowed to touch deity, asks Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court questioned the chief priest of Sabarimala if the Constitution protects believers barred from touching the deity. The cour...
21 Apr, 2026, 02.04 PM IST
Woman can't be treated as 'untouchable' for 3 days: Justice Nagarathna in Sabarimala caseSupreme Court Justice BV Nagarathna stated women cannot be considered untouchable for three days monthly. This remark came during hearings ...
07 Apr, 2026, 05.16 PM IST
'When a woman marries, her Gotra changes': Supreme Court weighs in on inheritance disputeThe Supreme Court is examining inheritance rights under the Hindu Succession Act, specifically concerning childless widows. Justice Nagarat...
25 Sep, 2025, 07.51 AM IST
Hindu marriage not to be dissolved as contract: Allahabad HCAllowing the appeal filed by a wife against dissolution of marriage, a division bench of justices Saumitra Dayal Singh and Donadi Ramesh wa...
14 Sep, 2024, 08.06 PM IST
Woman can be karta of Hindu Undivided Family (HUF): Delhi HCThe high court, in a recent verdict, underlined that “neither the legislature nor the traditional Hindu law in any way limits the right of ...
09 Dec, 2023, 03.30 PM IST
Children from void, voidable marriages are legitimate, can claim rights in parents' properties: SCIn a void marriage, no decree of nullity is required to annul the marriage. While, in a voidable marriage decree of nullity is required. Th...
01 Sep, 2023, 03.24 PM IST
SC agrees to hear plea against Madras HC order on petition seeking appointment of panel in templesA bench of justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheshwari issued notice to the state of Tamil Nadu and others seeking their responses on the p...
20 Mar, 2022, 02.49 PM IST
UP family court orders wife to pay Rs 1,000 monthly maintenance allowance to husbandA family court in UP has ordered a woman, who is a government pensioner, to pay a monthly maintenance allowance to her husband, following a...
22 Oct, 2020, 04.44 PM IST
Suman Kumari becomes Pakistan's first Hindu woman judgeSuman, who hails from Qambar-Shahdadkot, will serve in her native district.
29 Jan, 2019, 12.27 PM IST
Sabarimala: With judge on medical leave, SC may not start hearing on review pleas from January 22The Supreme Court Tuesday said it may not start the hearing from January 22 on pleas seeking review of the Sabarimala verdict, as one of th...
15 Jan, 2019, 12.06 PM IST
Court refuses to annul Karnataka woman’s marriageA three-judge bench, led by CJI Dipak Misra, referred to the recent Hadiya judgement to express its inability to annul her marriage
12 Apr, 2018, 09.06 AM IST
SC refers to Const bench plea over conversion of Parsi womanA bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said that it will have to consider whether the five-judge bench judgement in the triple talaq m...
09 Oct, 2017, 11.59 AM IST
- Nepal's first woman acting Chief Justice assumes office
Nepal's first woman acting Chief Justice Sushila Karki has assumed office, months after the country got its first woman President and Speak...
15 Apr, 2016, 04.23 PM IST
Hindu woman, Christian man's marriage not valid if either does not convert: HCMarriage between a Hindu woman and a Christian man is not legally valid if either of them does not convert, the Madras High Court today hel...
19 Nov, 2015, 03.01 PM IST
Hindu woman absolute owner of property under Hindu Succession Act: Madras High CourtThe Madras High Court has made it clear that the moment property is given in favour of a Hindu woman, she becomes the absolute owner.
10 May, 2014, 09.32 PM IST