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

A Hindu marriage is often imagined with fire, mantras, and the seven sacred steps known as Saptapadi. The couple walks around the holy fire, promising to share life, faith, and duty for seven ...

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 ...

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 ...

US Vice President JD Vance has said that he hopes his Hindu-raised wife, Usha Vance, will one day be "moved" by the Catholic Church and embrace Christianity while addressing a Turning Point USA event ...

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 ...

In the Vishwambhar v. Sow Sunanda case, the Bombay High Court ruled that the granddaughter who sought a partition of and claimed a share in her maternal grandfather’s ancestral properties, could only ...

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.

In a significant judgment, the Odisha High Court has recently held that under Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, children born from both first wife (valid marriage) and the second wife (voidable ...