Lucknow : Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday slammed the Modi government for approving an ordinance for a third time to make triple talaq a law. The Modi cabinet on Tuesday evening ratified three ordinances, including one on triple ...
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New Delhi : The Narendra Modi government is yet to take a decision on bringing an ordinance to amend the Citizenship bill after the amendment bill failed to secure parliamentary approval, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Wednesday. ...
Read More »Keep politics out of the triple talaq issue
By Amulya Ganguli, The day before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) waxed eloquent on the triple talaq bill in parliament, saffron bullies confronted a group of Muslims offering namaz (prayers) at a park in Noida, UP. The attitude of the ...
Read More »The Anti Talaq Bill Is Passed in Lok Sabha, What’s Next?
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi, There is no disappointment if the Anti Talaq Bill is passed in the Lok Sabha today (27 Dec. 2018). The outcome was expected as the ruling party has absolute majority in the lower house of Indian ...
Read More »Triple Talaq bill introduced in Lok Sabha
New Delhi : The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, commonly known as the Triple Talaq Bill, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday despite opposition from the Congress and amid protests over the Rafale controversy. ...
Read More »RSS chief sets BJP’s electoral agenda
By Amulya Ganguli, There was never any doubt about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) anti-minority electoral gambits but the agenda has now been unambigiously and forcefully articulated by the party’s friend, philosopher and guide, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Delivering ...
Read More »Triple talaq ordinance politically motivated, unacceptable, say Muslim bodies
New Delhi : A number of Muslim organisations on Thursday slammed the triple talaq ordinance, calling it politically motivated and “unacceptable”. Jamat-e-Islami Hind President Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari in a statement said that if the government is sincere about the ...
Read More »Cabinet approves ordinance on triple talaq
New Delhi : The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved an ordinance making triple talaq a criminal offence, a bill on which is pending in the Rajya Sabha. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad gave the information to the media after the ...
Read More »Uniform civil code not necessary nor desirable: Law Commission
New Delhi : The Law Commission has suggested certain changes in marriage and divorce laws that should be uniformly accepted in the personal laws of all religions, while holding that the uniform civil code “is neither necessary nor desirable at ...
Read More »Congress MP apologises for his triple talaq remark
New Delhi : Congress member of Parliament Hussain Dalwai on Friday sparked a controversy by defending triple talaq, saying that even Lord Ram doubted Sita and abandoned her, but he later apologised for his remark. The Congress party has, however, ...
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