A groom committed suicide in Bihar's Bhagalpur district after his neighbours taunted him about his bride's dark complexion, police said on Tuesday.

Rajesh Mandal committed suicide by consuming a pois

Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty, the Delhi High Court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in he

The family court is getting an increasing number of cases where marriages were conducted on the basis of false claims. In most cases, the spouses were found to be hiding facts — including marital stat

A Nagpur-based doctor has been booked by police for allegedly demanding Rs50 lakh dowry before his marriage for pursuing a higher medical course.

Dr Rahul Premchand Meshram's (33) alliance was fixed

Registration of marriages will soon become mandatory in Delhi and couples who fail to do so within 60 days of tying the knot will have to pay a fine of Rs 10,000.

The provision has been made in the

In a bid to make divorce more women-friendly, the Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its nod to few more amendments in the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, which include a clearly defined share in husban

Famed sexologist Mariela Castro, daughter of the Cuban president, said on Thursday she expected her country this year will pass a same-sex marriage law, although she said Cuba still needs to be "more

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday observed that married women should take a cue from goddess Sita, who followed her husband Lord Ram even during his exile, while hearing a divorce petition filed by a m

Cuttack police, with the help of local fire brigade personnel on Tuesday rescued a pregnant woman, who was lying on the spur of a river barrage here with her hands and legs tied with rubber tubes.

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Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too