Around two dozen countries don’t have a provision for civil marriage between individuals of different religious faiths. Almost all these co...

The bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, however, refused to stay the controversial provisions of the laws an...

The bench said, "We have issued notice does not mean that the High Court cannot decide the issue".

Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind in its application said that similar legislations are also being enacted or planned by various other states which also ...

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde refused To stay the controversial provisions of the laws, but issued notices to UP and Uttarakhan...

After a 19-year old woman married a person of her choice, her father petitioned the high court, complaining that his daughter's statement b...

The Uttar Pradesh government's Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance has drawn flak from across the country, but Uttar P...

The apex court should consider throwing out all the new laws on the ground that forced conversion is already illegal. The draconian love ji...

Love jihad sounds gender neutral, but in reality it’s a pernicious anti-woman term aimed at denying agency and individual freedom to women.

Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday became the fifth BJP-ruled state in the last one month to promise a strict law against “love jihad”, which has lo...

“In Assam, we are seeing the emergence of two to three new trends. Many Muslim boys create fake Facebook accounts with Hindu names and post...

The law requires those seeking to marry under the Act to place a public notice giving out their details 30 days before the intended marriag...

The panel, whose three-year term ended today, said diversity of Indian culture should be celebrated, but specific groups, or weaker section...

The officer said the wife had presented a marriage certificate for verification that had different name in comparison to the other document...

"As of now, there is no plan to extend the scheme (Dr Ambedkar Scheme for Social Integration) to inter-religion marriages," Vijay Sampla sa...

With SC upholding the dignity of Muslim women by abolishing the discriminatory triple talaq, similar gender justice may be on the anvil for...

The 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.