New Delhi: The Supreme Court on July 3 dismissed a petition by the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church in a case related to the ownership of the St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church at Kolenchery. The court ruled that the church had to be governed in accordance with the constitution ofContinue Reading
By K.M. Rakesh Kannur: A girl who took the all-India medical entrance exam in Kerala yesterday was told to her horror that the ban on candidates carrying metallic items into the exam hall applied even to the buckles on her bra. The 19-year-old was forced to remove the innerwear andContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday said Bru refugees, lodged in relief camps in Tripura after being displaced from Mizoram, should be allowed to voluntarily return to their native state. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice S K Kaul referred to the February 6 order inContinue Reading
The proposed Ram temple in Ayodhya has been one of controversial and divisive issues in the country since 1992Continue Reading
By: Mattersindia Reporter Bhopal: The Catholic Church has endorsed an Indian Supreme Court (SC) order that invalidated Church courts or ecclesiastic tribunals annulling marriage of a Catholic couple here on January 30. The president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) Cardinal Oswald Gracias said, “there is noContinue Reading
By: Flavia Agnes The Supreme Court’s dismissal of a frivolous writ petition filed by an octogenarian Roman Catholic citizen on January 19 has received undue publicity and conveys the impression that the apex court laid down a new legal precedent and clipped the wings of Roman Catholic church authorities toContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: In a rare gesture, President Pranab Mukherjee has set aside Union Home Ministrys recommendation and commuted the death sentence of four persons convicted of killing of 34 upper caste people in Bihar in 1992. The President gave a new lease of life on the New Year day toContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give legal sanctity to divorce decrees granted by ecclesiastical tribunals, popularly known as church courts. This means anyone remarrying after such a divorce decree would be committing the offence of bigamy. A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and JusticeContinue Reading
The 1995 judgment defined Hindutva or Hinduism as a “way of life” and nothing to do with “narrow fundamentalist Hindu religious bigotry”.Continue Reading
Groups campaigning for equal religious rights for women said that if the Haji Ali shrine is asked to stop discriminating against women it will set a precedent for others tooContinue Reading
