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Muslim women offer sweets to each other at a programme to celebrate the passage of the triple talaq bill by the Lok Sabha in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Triple talaq bill will be moved in Rajya Sabha today

The bill, which makes instant triple illegal with up to three years in jail for the husband, was passed by the Lower...

1 Jan 2018 10:50 PM

Muslim women offer sweets to each other at a programme to celebrate the passage of the triple talaq bill by the Lok Sabha in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Muslim women finally have freedom, says Modi

Women under the draft law can seek subsistence allowance and can claim custody of minor children.

31 Dec 2017 8:05 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the Centenary Celebrations of Patna University, in Patna, Bihar. (Photo: PTI)

Modi reiterates support for Muslim women, hails youth

Till now, women pilgrims were required to be accompanied by their husbands or Mehrams during the annual pilgrimage.

31 Dec 2017 7:26 PM

Muslim women have their hands tied while the guillotine of divorce dangles, perpetually ready to drop at the whims of their husbands who enjoy undisputed power. (Photo: PTI/Representational Image)

Spread awareness to safeguard Muslim women, don't rush to SC to change...

Contrary to popular perception, the Quran prescribes an elaborate procedure for divorce.

5 April 2018 1:02 AM

Culturally and geographically, burqa may be considered as more Indian than Western attire such as shirt-pants. Questioning its usage and that of other religious symbols is nothing else but manipulating false notions to target particular communities.

Targeting 'religious identity': Manipulated notions!

When noise is made about dress, with specific focus on its religious nature, it is important to analyse it totally.

3 April 2018 7:18 PM

Mr Sibal, supplemented by saying this (triple talaq) is something which is not permanent or immutable. (Representational image)

Ordinance on instant triple talaq is re-issued

A bill to convert the earlier ordinance, issued in September 2018, was cleared by the Lok Sabha on December 27, 2018.

14 Jan 2019 12:52 AM

President Donald Trump speaks before signing a USD 716 billion defense policy bill named for Senator John McCain Monday, in Fort Drum, New York on Monday. (Photo: AP)

2 Muslim women in US Congress make history, break a stereotype

No sooner had the clip featuring Representative Tlaib hit the contentious airwaves of American cable news that it went...

10 Jan 2019 6:59 PM

President Ram Nath Kovind (Photo: PTI)

Triple talaq criminalised; President Kovind promulgates 4 ordinances

The Ordinance will protect the rights of married Muslim women and deter the practice of divorce by triple talaq, that...

21 Feb 2019 11:26 AM

Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard outside a closed church in Colombo on April 28, 2019, a week after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.(Photo: AFP)

Sri Lanka bars Muslim women from wearing veils in public after Easter...

'The ban is to ensure national security... No one should obscure their faces to make identification difficult,' the...

29 April 2019 4:25 AM

The Supreme Court also referred to the National Crime Records Bureau Data stating every six hour a woman is raped in the country. (Photo: File | ANI)

SC to examine plea to allow Muslim women to enter mosques for prayers

'Only reason we may hear you is because of our judgment in the Sabarimala temple case,' bench said.

16 April 2019 6:10 AM

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: File)

Recognise your 'true brothers', UP CM Adityanath tells Muslim women

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath referred to the Centre's step to ban triple talaq.

10 April 2019 2:41 PM

Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

Let Muslim women decide over mosque entry, says SC

The petition was filed by Swamy Dethathrey Sai Swaroop Nath president, Kerala unit of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha.

8 July 2019 7:11 PM