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'She just vanished': Zeynab Javadli, ex-wife of Dubai Prince Sheikh Saeed bin Al Maktoum, three children 'abducted' amid bitter custody battleZeynab Javadli, ex-wife of Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has vanished with her three children in Dubai. A British lawyer ...
Second marriage & dowry harassment: SC quashes FIR against in-laws, keeps 498A case against husbandThe Supreme Court quashed FIRs against a husband's in-laws and sister in a dowry harassment case. While the wife alleged they were aware of...
"Positive talks on UCC and 'One Nation, One Election' underway": ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi has identified the Uniform Civil Code and One Nation One Election as significant unfinished priorities for the...
Husband asked to return 40 sovereigns of gold and pay Rs 4,000 monthly maintenance by Kerala HC while it rejected Rs 5 lakh counter-claimA wife has won a significant victory in the Kerala High Court. The court ordered her husband to return 40 sovereigns of gold and pay Rs 4,0...
Kerala HC rules: Muslim man needs first wife’s knowledge to register second marriage; says "religion is secondary, rights are supreme"The Kerala High Court has ruled that a Muslim man cannot register a second marriage without informing his first wife if the initial marriag...
First wife should be heard before registering Muslim man's second marriage: Kerala HCIn a landmark decision, the Kerala High Court has ruled that the first wife must have her say before her husband's second marriage is offic...
Second marriage on the day of divorce is not invalid, rules Kerala High Court; here’s whyThe Kerala High Court ruled a wife's second marriage isn't automatically void if her first divorce decree was issued later on the same day....
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...
Assam Assembly scraps Namaaz break, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma lauds decisionThe Assam Assembly has withdrawn the rule that allowed a two-hour Nammaz Break on Fridays. Chief Minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma praised this ...
Registration of muslim marriages, divorces in Assam a must nowThe Assam assembly has passed a bill mandating the registration of Muslim marriages and divorces. This new legislation ensures marriages wi...
Studying laws to help women trapped into marriages, says Devendra Fadnavis"The government is not against interfaith marriages, however, there has a conspiracy in some districts and such marriages have taken place....
Marriages in Kerala influenced by 'use & throw' culture: HC's stern wordsIt is evident from rise in live-in relationships and the tendency to opt for divorce on flimsy or selfish grounds, the court said.
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...
Adult couple can live together without marriage, says Supreme CourtThe observations came while the apex court was hearing a plea filed by one Nandakumar against a Kerala High Court order annulling his marri...
Bill to halve Christian couples' cooling off period misses Parliament dateThe Law Ministry's Legislative Department had sought the states' views on the issue as the amendment related to the personal law. Twenty fo...
How can SC intervene in marriage of consenting adults?: CJI Dipak MisraSenior advocate Shyam Divan said such a position was valid when a woman was not under the guardianship of a stranger.
Kerala 'love jihad' case: The day choice was killedMy own outrage flows from my family history. My mother, a devout Hindu, ended her days as a sannyasin at the Sivanand Ashram in Rishikesh.
NIA questions Shafin Jahan againJahan was questioned a week after the Apex Court gave its nod to carry on investigation into the conversion of Hadiya and her marriage with...
Court proceeding should not become political theatrics: Ravi Shankar Prasad"Court proceedings should not become a political theatrics to settle one's political score... this I would certainly say," Prasad said.
Muslim body to move Supreme Court over marriageable age for community girlsHolding that fixing marriageable age for Muslims was an encroachment into their religious rights, a muslim body has moved to the SC.