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For complexion to dowry, Triple Talaq nightmare continues
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Rampur/ Gonda (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 7 (ANI): Even as efforts are being made to end the practice of instant triple talaq, Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh continue to face ire of the malpractice.
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SP scoffs at BJP over saffronisation of Haj house
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 5 (ANI): The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Friday scoffed at the ruling dispensation in Uttar Pradesh after the exterior walls of a Haj house in Lucknow were painted in saffron colour and said if this continued, then one day everything would be painted in saffro
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Govt hurting Muslim sentiments: Maulana of saffron-painted Haj house
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 5 (ANI): The maulana of the Haj house, whose exterior walls were painted in saffron colour in Lucknow, has averred that the government should not do anything that hurts the sentiments of the Muslim community.
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More than 48,000 babies will be born in B'desh in 2018
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Cox's Bazar [Bangladesh], Jan 5 (ANI): More than 48,000 babies will be born in Bangladesh within this year, according to an NGO, 'Save the Children'.
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Triple talaq victims say Congress ditched Muslim women again
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 5 (ANI): Scores of Muslim women on Friday protested against the Congress party for stalling the proceedings of the triple talaq bill in winter session of the Parliament, outside its premises.
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Bhima-Koregaon Gram Panchayat denies existence of casteism in region
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Jan. 5 (ANI): Days after Maharashtra witnessed massive protests and outrage following the death of a youth in Bhima-Koregaon violence, a member of the Bhima-Koregaon Gram Panchayat, said that there is no conflict on the basis of caste in the village and people liv
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Muslims divided over fatwa against marrying bankers
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 5 (ANI): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday condemned the prominent Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband's new fatwa directing Muslims not to marry into families earning money through banking and related jobs drawing income from in
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Fatwa bans Muslim women from marrying into families of bank employees
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan. 05 (ANI): The largest seminary in the country, Darul Uloom Deoband, has issued a fatwa asking Muslim women to not marry into a family whose members work in banks, citing that the income from banking jobs is considered 'haram' (forbidden) earnings.<
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Triple Talaq petitioner Ishrat Jahan's lawyer joins BJP
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jan 4 (ANI): Nazia Elahi Khan, an activist and lawyer of Triple Talaq victim Ishrat Jehan, on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata.
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Fatwa issued against Muslim girl for reciting Bhagwad Gita
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 4 (ANI): "Islam is not so weak that we will be dismissed from it just for reciting Bhagwad Gita or wearing a particular kind of costume," said 15-year-old student, Alia Khan, on Thursday, after she was issued a fatwa (religious decree) by Dar-ul-uloom of D
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Jamiat leader says Centre using triple talaq bill for own benefit
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 3 (ANI): As the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017 was tabled in the Rajya Sabha amid huge uproar, Muslim cleric and general secretary of the Muslim organisation - Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Maulana Mehmood Madani, on Wednesday accused the Centre of us
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Triple talaq bill likely to be tabled in Rajya Sabha today
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 3 (ANI): The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017 seeking to criminalise instant divorce, triple talaq, is likely to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
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