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- India
Samajwadi Party MLA challenges Maha govt order tracking inter-community marriages
Mumbai: A Samajwadi Party MLA has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court challenging the Maharashtra government’s order setting up a Family Coordination Committee (FCC) to monitor inter-faith and inter-caste…
- 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
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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…