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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicLove jihad

Topic: love jihad

TV channels spent the week teaching viewers how to wear a mask and what ‘love-jihad’ is

Anchors on NDTV India, NDTV 24x7 and India Today, like Rajdeep Sardesai, were distinctly uncomfortable with the UP government’s move.

Day after UP’s ‘love jihad’ ordinance, MP follows suit with 10-year jail term 

Shivraj Chouhan govt had earlier proposed 5 yrs in jail for ‘love jihad’ but has now made it 10 yrs. State also to punish maulvis & priests who conduct the ceremonies with 5-yr jail term. 

UP doesn’t need a new anti-conversion law. But India needs a stronger Special Marriage Act

Yogi Adityanath’s anti-‘love jihad’ ordinance can deprive women of their agency. Ambedkar had always warned against that.

Why ‘secular’ Shivraj has embraced aggressive Hindutva on ‘love jihad’, cow and more

Shivraj Chouhan’s govt has proposed stringent law against ‘love jihad’, started legal proceedings against Netflix for ‘A Suitable Boy’ temple kissing scenes.

The real threat in Yogi govt’s anti-conversion law lies in its ambiguity

Reports on Allahabad High Court’s judgment in Salamat Ansari-Priyanka Kharwar case wrongly suggests a constitutional death-knell against UP’s 'love jihad' ordinance.

Yogi govt approves ‘love jihad’ ordinance with 3-10 years of jail term, Rs 50,000 penalty

The ‘Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion Bill 2020’ provides that interfaith couples, who want to get married, will need to inform district magistrates two months in advance.

Allahabad HC says earlier verdict, which CM Adityanath cited for ‘love jihad’ law, incorrect

The HC ruled that two of its earlier verdicts, which said religious conversion solely for the purpose of a marriage was prohibited, do not lay down good law.

Vaccine for ‘love jihad’ and Rahul Gandhi, the ‘denier-in-chief’

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VHP asks Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini to meet Hindu families & caution them against ‘love jihad’

Vinod Bansal, VHP national spokesperson, says Hindu families have to be first informed about ‘love jihad’ as there are certain patterns that are followed to lure young innocent women.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?