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Women live-in partners to get maintenance under Gujarat's new UCC bill; 50-50 kids' liability also proposedGujarat Live-in Relationship Rules: The Gujarat cabinet has ratified the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 2026 Bill, which mandates the re...- ‘Fire Atul Subhash’s wife’: Netizens call on Accenture to act after Bengaluru engineer’s tragic deathThe tragic death of 34-year-old techie Atul Subhash has ignited a social media storm. Accusing his estranged wife, her family, and a family...
- Kangana Ranaut blames fake 'feminism ka dhandha' for Bengaluru techie Atul Subhash's deathThe suicide of Bengaluru techie Atul Subhash has ignited nationwide discussions on marital laws and alleged gender biases. Subhash left a d...
- Centre allows women employees to nominate children for family pensionThe Centre has allowed female government employees to nominate their eligible child/children for family pension instead of their husband, a...
- View: UCC is a chance to set free DDLJ's Simran and respect Ramayan's KaikeyiPersonal laws, such as those related to marriage and divorce, treat women as powerless and in need of protection. Concepts like stridhan an...
- Assam to create sub-districts in all assembly constituencies: Himanta Biswa Sarma"We have accepted the delimitation as reality. To take the constituency reorganisation to a logical conclusion, many things are to be done ...
- Billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani, advocate Karuna Nundy named among TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2022Adani's profile mentions him as staying out of the public eye, quietly building his empire. On Nundy, it says that she is not just a lawyer...
- UAE to introduce unemployment insurance in latest economic reformInsured workers would receive some money for a limited time period if made unemployed, UAE Prime Minister and Vice-President Sheikh Mohamme...
- Centre 'relied upon Supreme Court's 2017 ruling to propose 21 as uniform marriage age'In the judgement, the Supreme Court had observed that "law cannot be hidebound and static. It has to evolve and change with the needs of so...
- Stalling triple talaq criminalisation bill shows lack of will for reforms
- One nation one code- will the UCC make Indian families fairer?Extra-judicial divorce remains more readily available to Muslim men than to Muslim women, who access it mainly through khula, which require...
- Why India doesn’t have a Uniform Civil CodeEach religious community in India has certain unique practices in family life, from marriage to inheritance and from marital separation to ...
- Law panel examining Kerala High Court verdict that repudiated practice of Triple TalaqIndia’s law commission is examining a judgement delivered on the issue of triple talaq by Kerala High Court that explicitly called for legi...
- Equality before law denied to Muslim women in matter of triple talaq: Kerala HCIn its 60-page judgement, the court said entire exercise is to alert the state that justice has become elusive to Muslim women and remedy l...
- Don't let Uniform Civil Code row hijack triple talaq reformThe Law Commission, whose role is purely advisory , has begun consultations on a theme that finds mention in the Directive Principles of th...
- Legal reforms panel supports law to encourage out-of-court settlementsThe Council, chaired by the Law Minister, usually meets twice a year. Representatives from the Supreme Court, the Bar Council and the Union...
- Identity paradox: Wives below 18 years of age can have sex, not teensProhibition of Child Marriage Act does not invalidate marriage of women below 18, the age of consent does not apply to an underage wife, un...
- Marital rape: Why both sides have got it wrongWhen I hear the heartrending stories of women raped every night, the question foremost in my mind is: what else did this woman endure along...
- BJD MP Baijayant Panda for replacement of word rape with sexual assaultDemanding stronger rape-shield laws, he suggested limiting what defence can ask the victim about her previous sexual history.
- Panel for equal property rights among couplesA high-level government panel has suggested that all movable and immovable assets acquired by a married couple or a couple living together ...
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