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Royal Matrimony celebrates 17 years of successful matchmaking: Reflecting
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI/ATK): Lab le kudi koi! Or Jassi tees ki hogi si, koi samjh nhin aanda ehnu! Have your parents started to pester you like this already to find a partner, get married, and settle down? Perhaps that makes you worried, thinking that arranged marriages are risky, an
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Assam, Andhra and Rajasthan opposed legalising same-sex marriage: Centre t
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Central government on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan have opposed the legal recognition of same-sex marriages in the country.
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Foreign judgments on same-sex marriage cannot influence decision-making pr
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Foreign judgments relating to same-sex marriages are delivered in the context of the socio-cultural environment of the relevant country, and in specific factual contexts. Therefore, they cannot influence the decision-making process in India, Sibal submitted before a Constitution Bench hearin
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"UCC needs to be implemented to stop system of four marriages": Himanta Sa
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code is important in the state for ending the system of men making "four marriages" and women being made "child producing machines".
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Special Marriage Act deals with inter-faith, inter-caste heterosexual marr
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Attorney General of India R Venkataramani on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the Special Marriage Act deals with inter-faith, inter-caste heterosexual marriages.
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Special Marriage Act deals with inter-faith, inter-caste heterosexual marr
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Attorney General of India R Venkataramani submitted before a five-judge constitution bench that the multifaceted dimensions of the issues, though rooted in the conception of marriage, are not to be addressed only through the prism of the Special Marriage Act, but by a comprehensive stand-alo
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"Hope to see legal stamp on rainbow marriages of our children": Parents of
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The letter written by the parents of Indian LGBTQIA+ children from a group named Sweekar - The Rainbow Parents, stated, "We desire to see our children and our children-in-law find legal acceptance for their relationship under the Special Marriages Act in our country. We are certain that a
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Plight of women in Pakistan deteriorates amid forced marriages, conversion
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As women in Pakistan continue to bear the brunt of forced marriages and conversions, some have also succeeded to escape, bringing such incidents to light.
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SC directs Centre to file status report on steps taken to implement Child
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The apex court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Society for Enlightenment and Voluntary Action contending that girls below 18 years of age are being married off despite child marriages being outlawed almost a century ago and a new law enacted in 2006.
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Local Panchayat along the Indo-Tibet-China border passes resolution to ban
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
On the occasion, the Vice-Pradhan of the Sumra village Panchayat Tsering said, "This resolution was passed by the Panchayat to save the outside cultures which had started invading our marriage ceremony in the religion and it pollutes the local culture and tradition".
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Same-sex marriage: Telangana Markazi Shia Ulema Council in SC opposes plea
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Telangana Markazi Shia Ulema Council has moved an intervening application in the Supreme Court in various petitions seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages.
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DCPCR files intervening applications in petitions for legal recognition of
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
DCPCR, in the application, submitted that from a psychological point of view, multiple studies on same-sex parenting have demonstrated that same-sex couples can be good parents, or not, in the same manner, that heterosexual parents can be good parents or not.
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