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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicInterfaith Marriage

Topic: Interfaith Marriage

Maharashtra interfaith marriage panel not about love jihad, but helping women: Minister Lodha

Maharashtra’s women & child development minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha says panel was formed in reaction to Shraddha murder case, to facilitate communication between woman & her family.

‘Begged bystanders, touched feet, no one helped’, says wife of Hyderabad ‘honour killing’ victim

The family of a Dalit man who was allegedly murdered by his Muslim wife’s relatives Wednesday claims police ignored couple’s protection request. NHRC has sought report on incident.

‘Suspicious death’ of Hindu woman in interfaith marriage stokes tension in Agra

The 26-year-old woman, identified as Varsha, had married a Muslim man, Fahim, a year and a half ago. Her family has alleged that she had been facing harassment.

‘Will fight to get my wife back’ — Muslim man in Kashmir Sikh ‘conversion’ row won’t back down

Shahid Nazir Bhatt, 29, has been accused of forcefully converting a Sikh woman. But he claims she converted to Islam and married her of her free will.

Forced conversion or boomer-talk? Twitter’s verdict on interfaith marriages is one-sided

While elders are already brazen with their bigotry as they promote intra-caste and religious weddings, leading voices on social media aren't far behind.

India’s embrace of modernity is now threatened by social regression

If Indians were to truly carry out their fundamental duties, then regressive trends like laws against inter-faith marriages would be energetically countered.

SC agrees to examine UP, Uttarakhand laws regulating religious conversions due to marriage

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde however refused to stay the controversial provisions of the laws and issued notices to both state governments on two different petitions.

Interfaith couple booked for religious conversion in violation of Uttarakhand law

The woman converted to Islam without informing her parents or the district authorities prior to her marriage as required under Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act, an official said.

Interfaith couple ‘harassed’ by Hindu vigilante groups in MP, police send girl to parents

The couple had gone to Jabalpur collector’s office to register their marriage. Police say they haven’t filed a case as the girl’s mother doesn’t want to pursue the matter.

On Camera

MCD is rounding up sterilised, friendly dogs just for optics—a moral and scientific failure

Since 1982, the resident dogs of JLN Stadium have peacefully coexisted with athletes, spectators, and staff. There hasn’t been a single recorded bite in over four decades.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.