The Assam assembly has passed a bill mandating the registration of Muslim marriages and divorces. This new legislation ensures marriages wi...

The Assam cabinet has approved a proposed law requiring Muslims to register marriages and divorces with the government, bypassing the role ...

The Centre defended its 2019 triple talaq law before the Supreme Court, arguing it was essential to protect Muslim women's rights and suppo...

Supreme Court decision echoes Shah Bano case, affirming Muslim women's right to seek maintenance. Controversy over obligations of Muslim hu...

The bill seeks to remove leprosy as a ground for divorce in five personal laws -- Hindu Marriage Act, Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, ...

The disagreement is not merely about the criminalisation of triple talaq, an iniquitous practice that had the sanction of law until the Sup...

Seminary says if man is sent to jail then the fate of his wife and children hangs in the balance.

Among other things, the 'Muslim women Protection of Rights on Marriage' Bill provides for a 3-year jail term to those found guilty of prono...

"If government want to stop triple talaq, then it can take our suggestions. We will help in solving the issues under the constitutional pro...

Many have long deplored the persistence among Indian Muslims of the practice of talaq-e-biddat, in which a man unilaterally dissolves his m...

India’s law commission is examining a judgement delivered on the issue of triple talaq by Kerala High Court that explicitly called for legi...

All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has argued that these practices are part of essential practice under the religion.

In 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...

The Solicitor General had sought time mentioning that the Centre had to file its response to a suo motu writ filed on the direction of the ...

A bench comprising Chief justice TS Thakur and Justice UU Lalit asked Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, ...

The assertion marks a challenge to the intent to extend gender equality to Muslim women and can open a fresh phase in the fraught debate.

The court insisted that the issue cannot be left to state policy as it involved the Fundamental Rights of a particular section of women.