Pakistan’s Supreme Court will decide this Thursday (October 13) whether to approve the execution of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who is has been convicted of blasphemy. Release International, which supports persecuted Christians around the world, is calling on Pakistan to release her and for Christians to redouble their prayers forContinue Reading
A Hindu son can divorce his wife for the cruelty of trying to pry him away from his “pious obligation” to live with his aged parents and provide shelter to them, the Supreme Court has held. A woman becomes a part of the husband’s family and cannot seek to separateContinue Reading
The Centre has urged the Supreme Court to ban a 500-year-old temple ritual in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu where Dalits roll over food leftover by Brahmins to apparently cure skin diseases, solve marriage problems and infertility. The social justice ministry called the practice “inhuman and superstitious” and said it affectsContinue Reading
Teachers work as personal assistants or personal secretaries to lawmakers Continue Reading
Senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam contended that there was “no accountability” in case of human rights violationsContinue Reading
New Delhi: In a document justifying “triple talaq” divorce, the top decision-making body of Muslims in India today said the Supreme Court cannot interfere in religious freedom and “rewrite personal laws in the name of social reform”. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board told the court that the “validityContinue Reading
New Delhi : The Indian embassy in Qatar is making preparations for an appeal to the country’s Supreme Court on behalf of two Indians on death row and a third serving a life sentence in Qatar, the government said on Thursday. While Subramanian Alagappa and Chilladurai Perumal have been sentencedContinue Reading
After three years of litigation, a Delhi man’s family realised on Friday that breaking a marriage alliance after enjoying the engagement party made them liable to reimburse the cost. In 2012, a government doctor finalized the marriage of his son, who was in the real estate business, with a girlContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court issued notice to six states on a PIL seeking discharge of more than 300 patients who have been cured of their mental ailments but are still lodged in hospitals with those under treatment. The bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thkaur and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar issuedContinue Reading
Many see it as a big blow for the federal governmentContinue Reading
