As the years carried on post the ruling, the Supreme Court has consistently ruled in favor of Muslim women being entitled to alimony under ...

One of the petitioners, Ashwini Upadhyay, watered down his demands and said the court should at least send the issue for a thorough examina...

A new court to handle non-Muslim family matters will be set up in Abu Dhabi and will operate in both English and Arabic. The UAE last year ...

The AIMPLB opposed advocate and BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay's plea on the basis that personal laws cannot be tested on the anvil of A...

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde issued notices to union ministries of home affairs, law and justice and the women and child devel...

A bench led by CJI S.A. Bobde issued notices to the central government’s law ministry seeking its formal response on the pleas made in the ...

With this bill, Parliament righted a wrong it had inflicted on its people more than two decades earlier.

Khan had resigned from the Rajiv Gandhi-led government in 1986 due to his differences over the Muslim personal law bill.

Naming prominent women leaders, including BSP chief Mayawati, Ravi Shankar Prasad said their "silence" was a clear example of vote bank pol...

This was a part of the detailed three-page note that the law ministry had submitted to the PMO on July 1, the day when it first became publ...

Khan sought to discount Muslims' alleged perception of their growing alienation and seclusion in India, saying they are themselves to be bl...

Unilateral divorce sometimes given over phone, text message and email has become increasingly frequent, leaving women with the short end of...

In 1985, Shah Bano, a 62-year-old Muslim mother of five from Indore, who was divorced by her husband, had won the right to alimony in the S...

The 1985 court intervention in favour of Muslim women in the Shah Bano case had turned politically acrimonious, with Parliament passing a l...

Maintenance and alimony are subjects of great debate in India. We tell you the basics of what the proceedings entail.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its unwillingness to delve into the legality of the parallel Sharia courts or examine the...

No one on the All India Muslim Personal Law Board ( AIMPLB) will admit it right now but it looks all set to become a litigant in the Ayodhy...