In Etawah, PM Modi combats dynastic politics, evoking Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Messages to Mainpuri. Recalls Mulayam's blessing, emphasizing leg...

The Supreme Court of India has stated that the institution of marriage has undergone significant changes over time, from practices like sat...

A senior RSS functionary claimed that social evils such as child marriage and the ban on widow re-marriage emerged in Indian society due to...

The new scheme aims to create more than 3.72 lakh sustainable individual and 822 community assets benefitting around four lakh families in ...

Arguing for the Centre on the scope of a reference in the Sabarimala review made to a nine-judge bench, Mehta invoked Hinduism’s pluralism ...

Should the state – government, legislature, or court – never intervene in religious practices? What about the banning of sati, caste discri...

The 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...

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was told that the only consideration was the "celibate nature of deity"...

The 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...

The doodle, created by Toronto-based designer Beena Mistry, marks his 246th birth anniversary.

The High Court dismissed the plea saying the petitioner should have approached the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) at an appropr...

There are myriad castes and sub-castes with their own beliefs and systems for marriage and remarriage, which is different for men and women.

Interference in matters of 'personal law' is beyond judicial examination. The judiciary must, therefore, always exercise restraint: CJI.

He recalled that laws were enacted to rid certain evil practices even in the Hindu society, like child marriage, sati and dowry.

The court passed the order while adjudicating a woman's plea seeking share in ancestral property of her father under the Hindu Succession A...

Rajasthan HC judgment directing santhara to be treated as suicide under IPC will hopefully, sooner rather than later, be rectified by the a...

What 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...