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Topic: Divorce

Sunita Ahuja is the Bollywood wife we don’t know how to process. She’s messy, flawed, unsettling

Sunita Ahuja’s appeal lies in that lack of PR training. She contradicts herself, forgives, laughs about things that hurt her. It is not hypocrisy, it is what complicated relationships look like from the inside.

Can micro-divorces save marriages?

Marriages and relationships are not meant to be without friction. It is about companionship. The beautiful, often irritating, ordinary experience of building a life with another person.

Wife’s maintenance claim can’t be defeated by man’s charge of disputed earlier marriage—HC

Punjab and Haryana HC says Savitaben Bhatiya precedent can’t be applied mechanically, leans on SC ruling to hold that years of cohabitation cannot be brushed aside on technicality.

How courts are dealing with spousal privacy as call records, phone chats become evidence in divorce cases

Legal experts say the recurring conflict between privacy and evidence is rooted in the continued relevance of the fault theory in Indian matrimonial law. 

Divorce, adultery & call records: SC affirms privacy not absolute, but high courts have been at odds

Supreme Court refused to interfere with Delhi HC order that allowed a woman to obtain husband’s call records, noting that husband’s right to privacy was not absolute in this case.

Why Delhi HC sought Interpol Red Notice against UK-based OCI for dodging child maintenance

Hearing a contempt petition by his ex-wife, HC sentenced him in absentia to six months of imprisonment and asked him to pay Rs 2,000 fine.

How do you know it’s time to divorce your partner? Look for these 7 red flags

In ‘Hitched or Ditched’, Paromita Bannerjee examines how personal relationships influence professional life.

SC strengthens financial autonomy of divorced Muslim women. They can recover wedding gifts from husband

After 14-year legal ordeal, divorced Muslim woman granted money & gold which were given to couple at time of their wedding. SC says aim of Muslim Women Act is to give dignity to women after divorce.

Talaq-e-Hasan under SC lens: A look at Muslim divorce practices & how courts have ruled before

SC quashed instant triple talaq in 2017 but left other forms of unilateral divorce, including Talaq-e-Hasan, untouched. Latter now under scrutiny for its place in ‘civilised society’.

‘Strikes at core of informed consent’: Marriage voidable if marital history concealed, says Delhi HC

Four kinds of marriages are considered voidable under Hindu Marriage Act: voidable due to impotency, legal defects, defect of consent due to fraud, or pre-existing pregnancy by another spouse.

On Camera

Marathi boys have a newfound love—Anand Shinde’s old racy songs

If the recent trend is anything to go by, regional Marathi subcultures are beginning to assert themselves. Singers such as Anand Shinde are now an undeniable part of the Marathi mainstream.

Wall Street piles on rate-hike bets as Warsh renews hawkish tone

The dollar rallied and gold fell, while 30-year Treasury yields were little changed, signaling confidence that the Fed will act to contain inflation and keep long-term borrowing costs in check.

India eases defence export rules, cuts procedural burden, expands licence window

At the centre is OGEL framework—a standing, one-time export authorisation that allows eligible defence exporters to generate authorisations for multiple consignments without applying separately for each.

Pakistan’s most embarrassing secret is internationalised. Now cricketing world is looking out for Imran

Given how arrogant and self-loving Imran is, he may not be capable of introspection even in the isolation of Adiala jail. The harsh truth is, he played the same game when it suited him.