The Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh home secretary to appear before it in person, taking exception to the state’s failure to respond to a 16-year-old’s contention that Mohammedan law ...

Yogi Adityanath’s administration has allowed a pilgrimage to interfere with people’s private lives, ordering hotels and marriage halls in Allahabad city to cancel all bookings for weddings during ...

When his mother Rabri Devi and brother Tejashwi Prasad Yadav are battling the government in the legislature, Tej Pratap Yadav is at an undisclosed location counting down to divorce proceedings.The win...

Abhishek Mishra, a vocalist of Indian Idol (2007) fame from Dhanbad, performed the roles of driver, singer and dancer, on his wedding day, to demonstrate the importance of social-distancing and eco-fr...

Couples getting married usually promise to stay hitched till death does them part. While partners may not always be earnest about their marriage vows, a zoo in Changzhou, China, has taken the oath a b...

The Lok Sabha on Thursday took up for consideration the contentious bill to make the practice of instant triple talaq illegal with up to three years in jail for the husband. Moving the bill for consid...

The Dhubri District Child Welfare Committee, along with local police, rescued a teenager from being married off on Tuesday and arrested her brother and the prospective groom. Rehana Khatun, 17, is a r...

My 11-year-old comes back home from school and announces that her class is studying the status of women in the late Vedic age in history. I ask her what she has learnt. She answers that the status of ...

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