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SC asks petitioner to approach State HC regarding his plea challenging ant
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday allowed advocate Vishal Thakre to withdraw his petition and granted him the liberty to approach Madhya Pradesh High Court in connection with his plea challenging the recent law in the state prohibiting religious conversion of
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SC adjourns for two weeks plea challenging prohibiting religious conversio
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it is adjourning for two weeks, the batch of petitions challenging the Ordinance passed by Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand prohibiting religious conversion for marriages.
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Why raise age of marriage when girls are ready for reproduction by 15? ask
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): Former Madhya Pradesh minister and Congress leader Sajjan Singh Verma on Wednesday asked why the minimum age of marriage for girls should be increased when girls are ready for reproduction at the age of 15 years.
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HC issues notice to Delhi govt, others on plea challenging child marriage
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 12 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to Delhi Government and others on a petition filed by a woman, who was married at the age of 16, challenging her marriage and seeking to declare child marriages performed in the state of Delhi as void-ab-initio
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Supreme Court refuses to stay anti-conversion laws in UP, Uttarakhand
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay laws enacted by Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments concerning marriages based on religious conversion.
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'Right To Live On Her Terms': Allahabad HC reunites interfaith couple
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 29 (ANI): The Allahabad High Court has ruled in favour of an interfaith couple, mentioning that the woman "has a choice to live her life on her own terms" with her husband.
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SC dismisses plea seeking to set aside Allahabad HC order over religious c
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking to set aside an Allahabad High Court order, which held that conversions just for the sake of marriage are invalid.
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U'khand govt transfers social welfare officer over inter-caste, inter-fait
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], December 2 (ANI): The government on Tuesday transferred a state government officer Deepankar Ghildiyal, a week after Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat ordered a probe into a matter relating to a scheme for promoting inter-caste and interfaith marriages.
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No big weddings in Indore due to Covid-19 guidelines; those associated wi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], November 26 (ANI): In view of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in Indore, the district administration decided to limit the number of guests to 250 for marriage functions in the city. It has raised concerns for people associated with the wedding busines
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Uttarakhand CM orders probe into case relating to inter-caste and interfai
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], November 23 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday ordered a probe into a matter relating to a scheme for promoting inter-caste and interfaith marriages mentioned in a press release by the Tehri Garhwal district social welfare office
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Love and jihad don't go hand in hand, says TMC MP Nusrat Jahan
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 23 (ANI): Amid the uproar over 'love jihad', Trinamool Congress (TMC) Member of Parliament (MP) Nusrat Jahan on Monday said that love and jihad don't go hand in hand and people come up with certain topics like this just before elections.
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Love jihad law is for conspiracies behind inter-religion marriages: Kailas
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], November 23 (ANI): Slamming Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel for his statement on the love jihad law, National General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday said that that law was targeted at inter-religion marriag
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