marriages
- India
SC to hear pleas challenging laws regulating conversions due to interfaith marriages
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear on February 3 a batch of pleas challenging controversial state laws regulating religious conversions due to interfaith marriages. A bench comprising…
- India
Delhi HC sends to SC pleas to recognise same-sex marriages
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday sent to the Supreme Court a batch of petitions seeking to recognize same-sex marriages under various laws. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra…
- India
Muslim groups in Dhanbad ban DJs, dance, fireworks in marriages
Ranchi: A total of 55 Muslim organisations in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad have announced a strict ban on DJs, fireworks, and dancing in the marriage’s Baraat procession, warning if this was violated, then no…
- India
SC clubs, transfers to self all pleas before HCs on same-sex marriages
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday clubbed and transferred to itself all petitions pending before different high courts across the country on the issue of grant of legal recognition to same-sex marriages.…
- Telangana
Telangana: Aadhaar mandatory for Muslim marriages
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has decided to take strict action against the Qazis who perform marriages of young Muslim girls. The Waqf Board has been instructed to enter the details of all…
- Andhra Pradesh
Six of marriage party killed in Andhra road accident
Amaravati: Six members of a marriage party were killed and 22 others injured when a tractor carrying them overturned and fell into a ditch in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district. The accident occurred…
- India
Delhi HC defers petitions seeking recognition of same-sex marriages
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday deferred petitions seeking recognition of same-sex marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act. The batch of petitions will be heard…
- Featured News
Extravagant marriages: Islamic scholars decide to cut the Gordian knot
Hyderabad: There is no dearth of issues facing the Muslim community. But the biggest and most vexatious of them seems to be marriage. For many, tying the knot is getting knotty by…
- World
Afghans marrying off young daughters to avoid forced marriages with Taliban
Kabul: Since Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls — a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to…
- Delhi
No way state can prohibit inter-faith marriages, says Delhi HC
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday observed that there is no way that the state can prohibit an interfaith couple to marry while dealing with a plea of two inter-faith…
- India
Maha: Muslim man held for rape, forced conversion; booked under SC/ST Act
Latur: A man was arrested for allegedly raping a woman on a false promise of marriage and forcing her to convert her religion in Maharashtra’s Latur city, police said on Friday. The…
- Offbeat
MP: Groom prefers bulldozer over horse or car for marriage procession
Betul: While bulldozers are more in news these days over their use for razing the properties of rioters in some states, a groom here in Madhya Pradesh chose it, instead of a…
- Middle East
24 hours to 47 years: How couples in UAE divorced in 2021
A couple in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) divorced just one day after tying the knot, making it the shortest marriage recorded in the emirates, last year. Another couple filed for divorce…
- Hyderabad
Muslim marriages becoming occasions for one-upmanship
Hyderabad: There is an urgent need for Muslims to wage a campaign against the extravagance of one-upmanship in marriages. There are many Islamic rituals that lead to extravagance such as “Mahendi” “Sanchak”…
- India
Marriages can be registered in virtual presence of parties: Delhi HC
New Delhi: Marriages can be registered in the virtual presence of parties, the Delhi High Court has ruled, saying that in the present times, citizens cannot be prevented from exercising their rights because…
