Shah Bano Case

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday questioned the Congress's respect for the Constitution and said Muslim women have suffered under its rule as he referred to the Rajiv Gandhi government overturning the Supreme Court judgment in the Shah Bano

The women's wing of the Trinamool Congress, led by senior ministers in the state government, on Tuesday began a 48-hour dharna against the release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano.

The Shiv Sena on Sunday questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and also asked if felicitation of rapists was "Hindu culture".

Is this the way to develop "Nari Shakti" and protect the dignity of women?

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha where the Congress-led opposition had blocked the proposed law to ban triple talaq, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave it back to Congress for trying to find faults with his government's version of the law.

Her husband said the word 'talaq' thrice on phone to divorce national-level netball player Shumaila Javed in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh, reports news agency ANI. Her fault? She gave birth to a girl.Ms Javed from Amroha, about 380 km from Lucknow, is currently staying at her parental home and wants Chief Minister Adityanath to look into the mat...

A consensus on acceptance of plurality, one can only hope, would encourage further dialogue about protecting inter-community marriages and rights of sexual minorities in the years to come.

As the Shayara Bano case reaches the Supreme Court, it is to be hoped that Rajiv Gandhi's precedent in reconciling the inviolability of Muslim Personal Law with the demands of the Constitution and ordinary decency will again inform the Supreme Court as it moves towards its conclusions in Shayara Bano's case.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday questioned the Congress's respect for the Constitution and said Muslim women have suffered under its rule as he referred to the Rajiv Gandhi government overturning the Supreme Court judgment in the Shah Bano

The women's wing of the Trinamool Congress, led by senior ministers in the state government, on Tuesday began a 48-hour dharna against the release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano.

The Shiv Sena on Sunday questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and also asked if felicitation of rapists was "Hindu culture".

Is this the way to develop "Nari Shakti" and protect the dignity of women?

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha where the Congress-led opposition had blocked the proposed law to ban triple talaq, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave it back to Congress for trying to find faults with his government's version of the law.

Her husband said the word 'talaq' thrice on phone to divorce national-level netball player Shumaila Javed in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh, reports news agency ANI. Her fault? She gave birth to a girl.Ms Javed from Amroha, about 380 km from Lucknow, is currently staying at her parental home and wants Chief Minister Adityanath to look into the mat...

A consensus on acceptance of plurality, one can only hope, would encourage further dialogue about protecting inter-community marriages and rights of sexual minorities in the years to come.

As the Shayara Bano case reaches the Supreme Court, it is to be hoped that Rajiv Gandhi's precedent in reconciling the inviolability of Muslim Personal Law with the demands of the Constitution and ordinary decency will again inform the Supreme Court as it moves towards its conclusions in Shayara Bano's case.