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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicFamily court

Topic: Family court

Wife ‘dreamt of high-society life’, wouldn’t adjust to financial limitations — Delhi HC upholds divorce

Delhi HC bench was hearing the wife’s appeal against divorce granted by family court in 2019 on basis of alleged mental cruelty towards husband, including taunts & abuse of their child.

Family courts aren’t safe for children. They need waiting rooms, counsellors & Mickey Mouse

Without a safe space for children, family courts become an extension of their homes that have turned into battlegrounds for their mums and dads.

Husband not paying maintenance despite court order? HC says civil suit can be filed for arrears

Arrears of maintenance pending for over a year can be recovered through civil suit, even if recourse under Section 125(3) of CrPC before magistrate isn’t available anymore, says court.

Nuclear families ‘less familiar with Indian values’, which leads to more divorces, says BJP MP

BJP MP Saroj Pandey made these comments during a discussion on Family Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2022, passed by Rajya Sabha Thursday.

What if roles are reversed? Debate on court ordering man to give sperm to estranged wife

A court in Maharashtra’s Nanded brought up a woman's ' reproductive rights' while granting a wife's plea to have a child through IVF with her estranged spouse.

Court orders man to donate sperm to estranged wife, who says no time for 2nd marriage

Husband’s lawyer says will challenge Maharashtra family court order because 'no person can be compelled to have sex, directly or indirectly'.

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India’s services exports touching $400 bn—a quiet engine offsetting trade deficit

In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit. 

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.