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Rajya Sabha approves Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill,
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): The government on Tuesday scored a major victory in the Rajya Sabha on the back of cracks in the opposition when the House passed the triple talaq bill after rejecting the opposition demand to refer it to the select committee and to remove the criminality cl
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Refer Triple Talaq Bill to Select Committee for further scrutiny: Oppositi
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): Opposition parties on Tuesday termed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage), Bill, 2019 as "unconstitutional" and stressed that the Bill needs to be referred to a Select Committee of Parliament for further scrutiny.
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AIADMK opposes Triple Talaq Bill, stages walkout in Rajya Sabha
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituent AIADMK on Tuesday termed the Triple Talaq Bill "unconstitutional and illegal" and later staged a walkout in the Rajya Sabha protesting against it.
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Govt bringing law on triple talaq for empowerment of Muslim women: Naqvi i
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): The BJP government is bringing the law on triple talaq for the social, financial and constitutional empowerment of Muslim women in the country, said Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
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JDU stages walkout in RS protesting Triple Talaq Bill
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): BJP ally Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday staged a walkout in Rajya Sabha protesting the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 which criminalises instant triple talaq among Muslims and attracts a jail term of three years for the husband.
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Triple Talaq Bill introduced in Rajya Sabha
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019, popularly known as the Triple Talaq Bill, was introduced in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
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Sena lawmaker compares Modi to Lord Krishna, calls him Muslim women's savi
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 25 (ANI): Shiv Sena lawmaker Vinayak Raut on Thursday compared Narendra Modi to Lord Krishna, terming the Prime Minister a saviour who is guarding Muslim women from the menace of Triple Talaq.
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Country's only religion is Constitution: Lekhi during discussion on Triple
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Hitting out at the previous Congress-led governments for appeasement of Muslims, BJP lawmaker Meenakshi Lekhi on Thursday said that the Modi government showed the courage to bring a law against the practice of Triple Talaq, while adding the only religion of
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Telangana: Muslim women inspired by Modi govt's stand on 'triple talaq' ta
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 24 (ANI): Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's stand on triple talaq, a large number of Muslim girls and women on Wednesday took membership of BJP here in Hyderabad.
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Hardliners afraid of Muslim women becoming a part of Hindustani culture: S
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): Hardliners are afraid of Muslim women becoming a part of Hindustani culture, said national spokesperson of Rashtriya Muslim Manch (RMM) Syed Yaser Jilani on Thursday, while attacking them for getting offended by BJP leader Ishrat Jahan's attending a Hindu re
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Bihar Women Commission takes cognizance of Bhagwanpur incident
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Bihar [India], June 27 (ANI): The Women Commission of Bihar on Thursday took cognizance of the Bhagwanpur incident wherein heads of a woman and her daughter were tonsured by a group of men in Bihar's Vaishali allegedly after they protested a molestation attempt.
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Bihar: Mother-daughter duo's heads tonsured for protesting molestation, 2
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Vaishali (Bihar) [India], June 27 (ANI): In a shocking incident, heads of a woman and her daughter were tonsured by a group of men in Bihar's Vaishali allegedly after they protested a molestation attempt. Two men involved in the act have been arrested by police.
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