SC seeks reply from states on pleas for staying anti-conversion lawsThe Supreme Court has asked several states to clarify their position on petitions challenging anti-conversion laws. The court issued notice...
16 Sep, 2025, 04.08 PM IST
Nothing wrong with interfaith marriages, but alliances through fraud need to be stopped: FadnavisMaharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis states there is no issue with interfaith marriages but emphasizes action against fraudulent matrimonial al...
16 Feb, 2025, 01.45 PM IST
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
Sonakshi Sinha gives a befitting reply to trolls attacking her interfaith marriage to Zaheer IqbalSo far, the 'Dabangg' remained dignified and did not take issue any caustic statements against her haters. But she recently made a subtle m...
26 Jun, 2024, 01.48 AM IST
From sati to interfaith marriages, institution of marriage has undergone sea change: SCThe Supreme Court of India has stated that the institution of marriage has undergone significant changes over time, from practices like sat...
18 Oct, 2023, 10.19 AM IST
SC to hear on Jan 2 pleas challenging state laws regulating conversions due to inter-faith marriageThe Supreme Court will also hear a plea by Muslim body 'Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind' which it had allowed last year to become a party to the petiti...
27 Dec, 2022, 04.51 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
Gujarat HC stays some sections related to interfaith marriages of new anti-conversion lawA division bench comprising Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Biren Vaishnav said the interim order has been passed to protect people f...
19 Aug, 2021, 01.21 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
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
Made marriage law because women were complaining of forced conversion, says Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi AdityanathThe Uttar Pradesh government's Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance has drawn flak from across the country, but Uttar P...
12 Dec, 2020, 11.50 PM 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
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
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
BJP will fight against interfaith marriages that take place owing to fraud: Himanta Biswa Sarma“Love jihad is promoted by social media. Assamese girls are becoming victims of love jihad,” Sarma said on Wednesday, addressing a meeting ...
14 Oct, 2020, 09.48 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