Source – firstpost.com What is marriage? What is divorce? These two questions are at the heart of the debate the country is having over triple talaq. The matter is in front of the Supreme Court, which will decide if this practice is or is not in line with fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution. But there

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The lawyers representing Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan today claimed that a representation has been made to the president seeking suspension of the Supreme Court order sentencing him to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.However, the president’s office said, “It was not aware of any such representation.” The lawyers said

Source – edition.cnn.com New Delhi (CNN)India’s Supreme Court decided Thursday to defer decision on the controversial Islamic divorce practice known as “triple talaq.” The practice, that stretches back over a thousand years, allows a husband to divorce his wife by simply saying the Arabic word for divorce, talaq, three times. India’s Supreme Court has convened

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Heated exchanges were witnessed between Union Minister Arun Jaitley and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday during the former’s cross-examination in a defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The recording of Jaitley’s statement in a civil defamation suit of Rs 10 crore filed by

Source – indiatoday.intoday.in After India scored a victory over Pakistan in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called up External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj where he lauded veteran lawyer Harish Salve’s effort in the International Court of Justice. Salve, was also part of the team that successfully argued at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against

Source – huffingtonpost.in LUCKNOW — The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government not to interfere in the functioning of a vocational training centre run by the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Amethi.This may be seen as a setback to Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, who had alleged that the land in Jais

Source – dnaindia.com MUMBAI, May 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Banning Muslim men in India from saying “I divorce you” three times to leave their wives won’t protect women from destitution and women need education about economic rights, a leading women’s rights lawyer said on Thursday as a landmark case ended. India’s top court has spent

Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com SRINAGAR: The goods and services tax (GST), which is set to be rolled out on July 1, is likely to have a benign effect on household budgets with finance minister Arun Jaitley declaring that its impact “will not be inflationary” and in some instances, prices are even likely to drop. A host of

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court today directed the Gujarat government to give 50 per cent reservation to the in-service candidates for admission to post-graduate medical diploma courses as per the regulations of the Medical Council of India. The apex court directed the state government to grant the reservation to these candidates in the second

Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a plea of the income tax department whether the Noida is a corporation established by the Uttar Pradesh government under the state industrial development law or not. A bench of Justices RK Aggarwal and AM Sapre has said it will look into the appeal