The Supreme Court of India will examine a constitutional challenge alleging gender discrimination in Parsi personal laws. A Parsi woman's p...

A nine-judge bench will hear cases on women's entry to religious sites. This includes the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala. The hearings begin o...

The Supreme Court of India will begin hearing pleas on women's entry at religious sites, including Kerala's Sabarimala Temple, from April 7...

The draft of the proposed Uniform Civil Code for Uttarakhand is complete and will soon be submitted to the state government. The code takes...

The awareness of one's rights and the courage to claim them are the only weapons that can help women in resisting any injustice that is met...

The Delhi High Court had in August, 2019 issued notice to the Centre and the Law Commission of India on BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadh...

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...

Citing earlier orders on the right to privacy of citizens and the right of minorities to run educational institutions, the SC said it can r...

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde framed seven questions to be heard by a nine-judge Constitutional bench on issues relating to fre...

A nine-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde is hearing several senior lawyers, including jurist FS Nariman, on the issue of framin...

Muslim women like men are permitted to enter mosques for offering 'namaz', the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) told the Suprem...

On November 14, last year, a five-judge constitution bench in a 3:2 majority verdict had referred to a larger 7-judge bench, the pleas seek...

The Supreme Court has refused to stay its 2018 ruling allowing women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala shrine but left it to a larger ben...

Hoyvoy, who was held for fraud and fabricating a power of attorney, will walk away with Rs14 crore as his share as part of the agreement.

She said the procedure under the 1938 personal law was exasperatingly cumbersome, involving a system akin to jury decision.

The same logic was once used by the Puri pandas to keep former PM Indira Gandhi out of the Puri temple although she was a Hindu by birth.

Women between the age group of 18 and 65 years are eligible to get trained under the scheme. There is no annual income bar.