Bhasker and SP leader Fahad Ahmad registered their marriage on 6 January, 2023 in a court – three years after they first met at an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest in Mumbai.
Kerala HC Wednesday allowed couple to solemnise marriage virtually under Special Marriage Act. Bride's in India, groom is in UK & couldn't travel for 23 Dec wedding owing to Omicron restrictions.
Court was hearing petitions by 17 interfaith couples seeking protection from family and police harassment. It also gave rulings related to UP's anti-conversion law.
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.
The govt's response comes in light of a plea by an inter-faith couple challenging the provision of issuing a public notice to invite objections to marriages under the Act.
1954 Act deals with inter-caste & inter-religious marriages, and allows people to get married without giving up religion. Read the full judgment of Allahabad HC here.
The court was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by one Abhishek Kumar Pandey alleging that his Muslim wife’s father is not allowing her to stay with him.
There is a strong justification for the call for assimilation into local values and culture. The Kannada way of life has been a key factor in shaping Bengaluru into the city it is today.
A working paper, published by Economic Advisory Council to PM, shows that UP & Bihar used to be ‘powerhouses’ of India’s economy around 60 yrs ago, but that's no longer the case.
Manipur represents BJP’s unique ideological approach to governing Northeast by playing identity politics jiu-jitsu. It hasn’t gone well yet, is getting worse, but the party insists on continuing.
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