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"Why don't we hold weddings in our own country?": PM Modi urges people to
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
PM Modi, while addressing the nation in the latest edition of his monthly radio broadcast 'Mann Ki Baat on Sunday urged people to give importance to products made in India only during shopping for weddings.
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Sima Taparia Awarded Elite Most Influential Indian Award at Statue of Libe
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 22: Sima Taparia, the renowned matchmaker and star of the hit Netflix show "Indian Matchmaking," has been honored with the Elite Most Influential Indian Award at a prestigious event held at the Statue of Liberty in New York. The award serves to recognize her signi
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MEA asks Law Commission to examine, and strengthen framework for NRI marri
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
According to the MEA, it has received a large number of complaints pertaining to marital issues from Indian women married to overseas Indians.
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Protesters outside European Parliament raise chants on abuse of blasphemy
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The European Pakistani Christian Action Committee held a protest outside the European Parliament, raising issues including the abuse of blasphemy laws, a culture of impunity, discrimination, incitement of violence in the name of religion, coerced faith conversions and forced child marriages
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Justice S Ravindra Bhat retires from the Supreme Court of India
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
In his speech at the SCBA farewell, Justice Bhat began by expressing his deep gratitude for the privilege of serving as a member of the bench of the Supreme Court. He said, "I count myself to be among the lucky people to have ended my career here, as a member of the bench of the highest cour
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"While Supreme Court has shut one door, it has opened another door": Advoc
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud ruled in a 3:2 verdict against giving constitutional validity to same-sex marriages. The top court said it is for Parliament to formulate legislation on it.
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Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi welcomes SC's decision on same-sex marriage
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to recognise the right of same-sex couples to enter into marriages or have civil unions and left it to the Parliament to decide the issue. A five-judge Constitution bench unanimously said it cannot strike down the provisions of the Special Marriage Act (S
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CPI MP expresses disappointment over SC verdict on same-sex marriages
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam on Tuesday expressed his disappointment over the Supreme Court judgement concerning same-sex marriages and said the court has pushed the ball in the government's court issue "which is unlikely to take up the rights of the
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"Govt may want to address operational issues...": Advocate Sai Deepak afte
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud ruled in a 3:2 verdict against giving constitutional validity to same-sex marriages. The top court said it is for Parliament to formulate legislation on it.
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"Rights of queer citizens must be protected...": Advocate Karuna Nundy aft
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"There were four separate judgements. The Chief Justice and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul together elucidated some very important sets of legal and jurisprudential principles. They said that there is no fundamental right to marriage but there are various aspects of the right to marriage locate
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Disappointed but will keep fighting, say activists after SC verdict on sam
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The activists and the people belonging to the LGBTIQA+ community were hoping for a decision in their favour.
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"SC shouldn't give recognition...not consistent with Indian values": Top c
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
As the five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice DY Chandrachud, held a crucial hearing on a batch of pleas seeking recognition of same-sex marriage, Muslim cleric Maulana Sajid Rashidi said urged the apex court not to recognise such
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