She was married off when she was only an infant yet, but coming of age the 16-year-old Rajasthani girl now wants that marriage annulled and freedom of choice to be educated and working restored to her

A civil engineer from Punjab, employed in Lebanon and wanted by the Punjab police for polygamy, was detained at the Chennai airport on Saturday.

Immigration officials detained 44-year-old Sadam Varm

Registration of marriages is to be made compulsory irrespective of religion - largely to prevent the harassment of women in divorce cases - under two bills approved by the cabinet on Thursday.

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The Karnataka High Court has ruled that life sentence can be a ground to grant divorce.

Rejecting a Miscellaneous First Appeal by a husband serving life in a murder case, a division bench, headed by

Kazi Ashraf Hossain's work colleagues always told him he had a talent for getting couples together, so when he was forced to quit his job as a crane operator, he set up as a matchmaker.

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Madras High Court (HC) has come down heavily on the male chauvinist Indian concept that a woman’s domain is the kitchen and she should not look beyond satiating the husband, rearing his children and d

Suyamvarams for the differently-abled are likely to become a regular feature and will be taken to their doorsteps, well almost, if a plan by the Tamil Nadu Differently Abled Welfare Association (TNDAW

Increasingly fed-up with ‘sex-starved’ marriages, more and more couples were seeking divorces these days. This was observed by the Delhi High court while upholding a man’s plea for divorce on the grou

An Islamic marriage guide advising men on 'the best ways' to beat their wives has sparked outrage in Britain, especially among moderate Muslims who say that it encourages domestic violence.

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Wilful denial of sex, including that on the first night after wedding, by either of the spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for dissolution of the marriage, the Delhi High Court has ruled.