CHENNAI: Holding that mere absence of any ceremony for conversion from Muslim to Hindu religion cannot be a ground to dismiss ...

The HC observed that the key question in such cases is how the marriage was solemnised, and not just the community status of ...

The petitioner claims there was a Panchayati divorce between the parties, though no decree by a court of competent ...

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and INDIA bloc’s Chief Ministerial face for Bihar Tejashwi Yadav said that The Waqf (Amendment) Act would be “thrown in the dustbin” if his party comes to power in ...

Three weeks after a 32-year-old UPSC aspirant’s charred body was recovered after a fire in north Delhi’s Timarpur, the Delhi Police arrested three people, including the deceased’s live-in partner, in ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that members of the Scheduled Tribes are entitled to inherit properties based on local tribal laws, not on the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (HSA). A bench of Justices Sanjay ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced a major initiative to help candidates who reached the final stages of the UPSC examinations but did not qualify to become civil servants, enabling both ...

With the news that the Supreme Court has been asked to consider a case that would revisit the issue of same-sex marriage, hyperpartisan liberals are working overtime to try to sow fear and discontent.

THE ACT has promised a "vigorous" defence of its same-sex marriage laws in the High Court. The Abbott government's decision -- foreshadowed in The Weekend Australian last Saturday -- triggered ...

LABOR has backed the ability of the states and territories to legalise same-sex marriage ahead of a High Court test case. Opposition legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus yesterday accused the ...

The Delhi High Court has said that the provisions of the SC/ST Act relating to wrongful occupation or dispossession of land belonging to people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes cannot be ...

ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher says if same-sex laws fail in the High Court, it is up to the federal parliament to end discrimination. The court is scheduled to hand down its decision on a ...