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NEW DELHI: If marriages are made in heaven, as they say, there should not be any reason for it to be governed by separate codes in different communities.

LUDHIANA: The International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO) and its political outfit, the Sikh League International (SLI), have called upon Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to declare as null and void all the ‘‘agreements’’ on river waters, by passing a resolution in the assembly, to prove that he was not handin-glove with his Haryana counterpart in this regard.

The work permit system, if implemented, will not bestow voting or state benefits — as these rights cannot be availed if a person does not make the NRC. But given that a large number of persons may not be able to establish citizenship and there are human and logistical aspects to deportation of individuals and families who have been living in India for a long period of time, the permits could be a middle road.

They said the new law should have also banned the practice of polygamy among Muslim men which, they said, was "worse than triple talaq." The same opportunity had come in 1985 when the Shah Bano case happened, but was lost by the then Central government, they claimed.

Veteran Bengali actor Manoj Mitra, aged 85, is critically ill and hospitalized due to age-related health issues. He is under close medical observation and responding to treatment. His brother Amar Mitra has refuted death rumors circulating on social media, expressing frustration over the misinformation.

Ward B, the smallest and most congested ward, is also home to an organised illegal construction racket

State parliamentary affairs minister Alam Gir Alam on Monday admitted on the floor of the assembly that the local residents’ policy introduced by the then Raghubar Das government in 2016 is still in force.

The competent authority for Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976, (Safema) last week seized three Worli buildings, worth Rs 500 crore, allegedly belonging to druglord, the late Iqbal Memon alias Mirchi. The properties will be auctioned.

With a population of 1.28 lakh packed into just 2.84 sq km, B ward is the BMC's smallest but highly populated ward. The aggressive land mafia is the stronghold of the remnants of the Dawood Ibrahim gang. Besides the fear factor, dodgy builders ensure the palms of BMC, Mhada, police officials and RTI activists are greased to keep the lid on their illegal doings.

With a population of 1.28 lakh packed into just 2.84 sq km, B ward is the BMC’s smallest administrative ward but with the highest population density

Several petitions, including those by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, were filed in the Supreme Court on Friday challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.

Although gang wars are now a thing of the past in Gorakhpur, with the death of six-time MLA and former minister, Hari Shankar Tiwari, curtains are formally drawn on the 'mafia raj' in east UP. His journey through the world of crime and politics will be remembered for a long time.

Opposing the contentious triple talaq bill, parties like Congress, TMC, SP, AIADMK and DMK on Tuesday demanded in Rajya Sabha that the proposed legislation be sent to select committee for further scrutiny.

At its recent plenary session in Delhi, the Congress finally broke its silence on the Emergency. In 1985, Rajiv Gandhi had tried to come clean on the E-word but he backed out at the last moment. B N Uniyal tells the inside story.

Your kid loves the guitar riff, the drums’ roll? Or the sound of his Robert Plant vocals? Don’t force him to do maths. India is slowly but surely opening up to a career in rock music