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NEW DELHI: More than 20 years after her marriage, Rousanara Begum finally heard the words she had waited for when the Supreme Court recently ruled that a divorced Muslim woman can reclaim the wedding gifts her parents gave her at the time of marriage.Now nearly 45, she told TOI on Saturday: “It started two decades…
NEW DELHI: Noting that inherent patriarchal discrimination is still the order of the day, Supreme Court has said gifts given by parents not only to their daughter but to the bridegroom at the time of marriage have to be returned to her if it ends in divorce.Applying a provision of the Muslim Women (Protection of…
Zeeshan Ayyub married Rasika Agashe in 2007 despite family opposition to their interfaith union. They met at NSD, bonded deeply, and eloped to Goa before wedding under the Special Marriage Act. “She wants to live as Hindu, I as Muslim,” he said, avoiding religious interference. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub wed Rasika Agashe back in 2007. The…
SRINAGAR: BJP, VHP and Bajrang Dal have objected to admissions of Muslim students, mostly from Kashmir, to Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College in Katra after freshers from the community formed the bulk of the institution’s first batch.This marks a potential new Jammu versus Kashmir political row as J&K’s governing National Conference (NC) and opposition PDP…
A high court in Pakistan has ordered authorities to stop harassing a Sikh woman who converted to Islam and married a local Muslim man after meeting him on social media, news agency PTI reported. CHANDIGARH: A high court in Pakistan has ordered authorities to stop harassing a Sikh woman who converted to Islam and married…
NEW DELHI: Early trends of the Bihar assembly election results on Friday indicated significant gains for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in several Muslim-dominated seats.According to the initial trends, the NDA appears on track to secure at least 16 such seats. Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) seems to have benefited the most within…
NEW DELHI: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a two-judge bench’s order directing Maharashtra to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT), comprising police officers belonging to Hindu and Muslim communities, to probe two crimes related to the 2023 communal riots in Akola. Appearing for Maharashtra, solicitor general Tushar Mehta told…
A major political and religious row erupted on Monday after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that singing Vande Mataram would be made mandatory in all educational institutions across the state.Speaking at the Ekta Yatra and Vande Mataram singing event in Gorakhpur, Chief Minister Adityanath said the decision was intended to instil national pride…
Former actor Zarine Khan, wife of Sanjay Khan and mother of Sussanne Khan and Zayed Khan, passed away on November 7 at her Mumbai residence. She was 81 and had been battling age-related ailments.Born Zarine Katrak in a Parsi family, she later married into a Muslim household. However, her son Zayed Khan performed her last…
It finally happened! New York just elected a Muslim, African-born, democratic socialist mayor. Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old son of immigrants, toppled political heavyweights Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa to become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century. To millions of progressives, it’s a historic breakthrough. To MAGA-world? It’s basically a full-blown red alert.Because…
