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Supreme Court of India reopens Sabarimala Temple case ahead of Kerala pollsThe Supreme Court begins hearing the Sabarimala Temple entry case again. This crucial hearing will decide if women aged 10 to 50 can enter ...- Live and let liveMahavir Janm Kalyanak celebrates the birth of the 24th Tirthankar, Mahavir, who pioneered principles like ahimsa (non-violence), forgivenes...
- Kunal Kamra and Amish Tripathi lock horns over 'Sati' debate, online opinions splitAuthor Amish Tripathi engaged in a heated exchange on X with comedian Kunal Kamra over Bhavish Aggarwal's comments about the historical pra...
- How Ram Mohan Roy ended sati, I stopped dynasty politics: ModiIn Etawah, PM Modi combats dynastic politics, evoking Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Messages to Mainpuri. Recalls Mulayam's blessing, emphasizing leg...
- From sati to interfaith marriages, institution of marriage has undergone sea change: SCThe Supreme Court of India has stated that the institution of marriage has undergone significant changes over time, from practices like sat...
- Social evils cropped up in Indian society due to Islamic invasion: RSS leader Krishna GopalA senior RSS functionary claimed that social evils such as child marriage and the ban on widow re-marriage emerged in Indian society due to...
- Assam initiates Atmanirbhar Asom scheme aiming to empower economically disadvantaged womenThe new scheme aims to create more than 3.72 lakh sustainable individual and 822 community assets benefitting around four lakh families in ...
- Right to enter temple not absolute, Centre tells Supreme CourtArguing for the Centre on the scope of a reference in the Sabarimala review made to a nine-judge bench, Mehta invoked Hinduism’s pluralism ...
- View: Courts cannot see Sabarimala and triple talaq in the same wayShould the state – government, legislature, or court – never intervene in religious practices? What about the banning of sati, caste discri...
- SC scoffs at Bohra claims on genital mutilationThe men also have to go through a similar practice, in his bid to point out that there was no discrimination against the women as such in t...
- Celibate nature of Lord Ayyappa of Sabarimala temple protected by Constitution, SC toldA five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was told that the only consideration was the "celibate nature of deity"...
- Ban female circumcision, centre tells Apex CourtThe CJI demanded to know if the practice could be imposed on women if they did not accept it. “If they are opposed to it can you force it o...
- Google Doodle pays tribute to 'Maker of Modern India', Raja Rammohun RoyThe doodle, created by Toronto-based designer Beena Mistry, marks his 246th birth anniversary.
- Delhi High Court rejects plea alleging glorification of Sati in 'Padmaavat'The High Court dismissed the plea saying the petitioner should have approached the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) at an appropr...
- Why the government must now hasten to enact a Uniform Civil CodeThere are myriad castes and sub-castes with their own beliefs and systems for marriage and remarriage, which is different for men and women.
- Triple talaq ban: CJI reminds government of obligation to bring in Uniform Civil CodeInterference in matters of 'personal law' is beyond judicial examination. The judiciary must, therefore, always exercise restraint: CJI.
- Government may step in if triple talaq practice not changed: Venkaiah NaiduHe recalled that laws were enacted to rid certain evil practices even in the Hindu society, like child marriage, sati and dowry.
- Supreme Court to examine validity of Muslim divorce, polygamyThe court passed the order while adjudicating a woman's plea seeking share in ancestral property of her father under the Hindu Succession A...
- Santhara is not suicide: Rajasthan HC judgment equating the two must be rectifiedRajasthan HC judgment directing santhara to be treated as suicide under IPC will hopefully, sooner rather than later, be rectified by the a...
- Date with history: Richmond Circle may have been a site for 'sati' practice in 19th centuryWhat this secluded space in to day's CBD quietly tucks away is not ust a place of worship, but 106 historical memorial stones that date bac...
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