Two held for ‘forcing over 1,000 religious conversions’ in UPThe others booked by the police include Jahangir Kazmi, who illegally issued conversion and marriage certificates to the converted, and Isl...
22 Jun, 2021, 07.33 AM 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
SC allows HP, MP to be made parties to plea against laws on conversion due to interfaith marriageThe bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, however, refused to stay the controversial provisions of the laws an...
17 Feb, 2021, 01.09 PM IST
Challenge to law on religious conversions: SC refuses to transfer to itself cases from Allahabad HCThe bench said, "We have issued notice does not mean that the High Court cannot decide the issue".
25 Jan, 2021, 03.36 PM IST
Nobody can interfere in peaceful life of two adults: Allahabad HCIn the case in question, Shaista Parveen alias Sangeeta had converted to Islam before marriage and the couple claimed they were both living...
09 Jan, 2021, 08.33 AM IST
Muslim body moves SC, seeks to be party in pleas against state laws on religious conversionJamiat Ulama-I-Hind in its application said that similar legislations are also being enacted or planned by various other states which also ...
06 Jan, 2021, 09.08 PM IST
SC refuses to stay UP, Uttarakhand anti-conversion laws; to hear pleas against themA bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde refused To stay the controversial provisions of the laws, but issued notices to UP and Uttarakhan...
06 Jan, 2021, 08.44 PM IST
Opponent of "Love Jihad", UP & Uttarakahd have schemes to promote inter-religious marriagesThe scheme has been in place in both states for several years now. The Uttar Pradesh government had allocated Rs 10 lakh under this in its ...
22 Nov, 2020, 11.05 PM IST
Uttarakhand govt paying cash incentives to inter-caste, inter-faith couplesThe cash incentives are given to all legally registered inter-faith Indian couples, said officials of the state Social Welfare Department.
21 Nov, 2020, 05.43 PM IST
We will raise creamy layer income limit for quotas: Thawar Chand GehlotThe income limit to determine the creamy layer has been uniform for rural and urban areas since the time it was introduced. There isn’t muc...
29 Feb, 2020, 11.01 PM IST
UP’s ‘Dial 100’ helpline for inter-religious, inter-caste couplesThe Allahabad High Court had pulled up the UP government for not implementing Supreme Court guidelines in the matter.
19 Sep, 2019, 07.58 AM IST
Illegal for khaps to stall marriages between adults: Supreme CourtThe police chief in each district should oversee the safety of such couples and take the assistance of the court to make preventive arrests...
28 Mar, 2018, 07.35 AM IST
SC to khaps: Panchayats can’t harass couplesDo not become conscience-keepers, says apex court while hearing a PIL.
06 Feb, 2018, 08.36 AM IST
No plans to give incentives for inter-religious marriages: Government"As of now, there is no plan to extend the scheme (Dr Ambedkar Scheme for Social Integration) to inter-religion marriages," Vijay Sampla sa...
02 Jan, 2018, 02.14 PM IST
Road ahead: End of triple talaq a gateway to Uniform Civil Code?With SC upholding the dignity of Muslim women by abolishing the discriminatory triple talaq, similar gender justice may be on the anvil for...
23 Aug, 2017, 12.48 AM 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
Ten things to know before getting hitchedDo you have a mature understanding of marriage and what it involves from you and your partner's socio-cultural and religious points of view?
08 May, 2016, 04.28 PM IST