US-based interfaith couple cancels wedding reception in Aligarh after right-wing outcryAn interfaith couple from the United States cancelled their wedding reception in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, after local right-wing groups prot...
16 Dec, 2024, 04.15 PM IST
Haveri woman alleges gang-rape in Karnataka: Interfaith couple harassment turns into a horrific storyA Karnataka woman, who was harassed by a group of six men due to her interfaith relationship, has alleged that she was gang-raped by the sa...
12 Jan, 2024, 12.40 PM IST
Viral Video: Karnataka interfaith couple brutally attacked in hotel room by 6 menKarnataka: The videos, shared widely, depict the attackers waiting outside the lodge room in Hanagal Taluk of Haveri District. After record...
11 Jan, 2024, 04.27 PM IST
UP allocates funds for inter-faith marriagesThe state has given a budgetary estimate of Rs 10 lakh in this year's budget for the 45-year old Intercaste and Interfaith Marriage Incenti...
25 Jun, 2022, 01.24 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
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
Lawyer to challenge anti-conversion law in Uttarakhand after couple bookedThe police had on Tuesday registered an FIR (first information report) against four people including the couple and the priest who presided...
31 Dec, 2020, 07.45 AM IST
No directive to scrap scheme on inter-faith marriages in Uttar Pradesh: Top officialThere is no direction received regarding the Uttar Pradesh government reviewing conditions that allow it to avail or even scrap a 44-year o...
10 Dec, 2020, 07.22 AM IST
What Uttar Pradesh government's new anti-conversion law saysConversion for marriage stands banned. So interfaith couples wishing to marry will have to opt for the Special Marriage Act or risk a five-...
29 Nov, 2020, 11.04 PM IST
A few exceptions of ‘forced conversion’ cannot be seen as norm: Former Kerala top cop who probed 'love jihad’Among the 100-odd cases of interfaith marriages that he and his team had verified on the directive of the Kerala High Court in October 2009...
26 Nov, 2020, 10.23 PM IST
Interfaith couples uneasy as 'love jihad' storm rages, gathers forceTheir challenges increase as the chorus gets louder with politicians and others speaking out and several states declaring their intention t...
24 Nov, 2020, 01.35 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
PIL against 30-day notice period under Special Marriage Act: HC seeks govt responseA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the Ministry of Law and the Delhi government, seeking their s...
07 Oct, 2020, 01.30 PM IST
External Affairs Minister listening to only harsh language these days: Sushma SwarajSwaraj's remarks came against the backdrop of being viciously trolled on social media for days over the controversy surrounding the issuanc...
10 Jul, 2018, 09.28 PM IST
Lucknow official exceeded brief, reveals probeThey had alleged that official Vikas Mishra asked Siddiqui to convert to Hinduism and pulled up Seth for marrying a Muslim.
04 Jul, 2018, 11.29 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj trolled on Twitter again, accused of Muslim appeasementThis comes days after Swaraj was trolled and abused on Twitter over a controversy involving the issuance of passport to an interfaith coupl...
30 Jun, 2018, 06.19 PM IST
Passport official transferred over harassing inter-faith coupleThe MEA swung into immediate action after the couple had taken to social media to reach out to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who ...
22 Jun, 2018, 08.01 AM IST