The Supreme Court on Friday sought to know which law gives legitimacy to children born outside a formal marriage, be it void or voidable. A voidable marriage is one that can be rendered invalid by the husband or wife through a decree, while a void marriage is invalid at the very inception. A bench of…
Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Friday expressed his dissatisfaction after the Farrukhabad Lok Sabha seat went to the Samajwadi Party (SP) while finalising the seat-sharing deal with the grand old party for the upcoming parliamentary elections. While expressing his disgruntlement, he asked how many times he would have to prove his relationship with the constituency…
A medical board of the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Friday informed a special court that private medical reports of Jet Airways founder Naresh Mr Goyal suggest that he is suffering from “malignancy”, but it needs to carry out further tests. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has arrested the businessman in a money laundering…
With a power-sharing deal already inked, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party are moving ahead with plans to form a coalition government by March 2 and hold the presidential election before March 9, according to a media report on Friday. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by three-time Prime minister Nawaz Sharif…
Less than three weeks after Uttarakhand became the first state in independent India to pass legislation on a Uniform Civil Code, Assam has taken its first step towards a similar law and decided to repeal the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Registration Act. Making the announcement on Friday, Assam Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said the decision…
The Bosch group said Friday it would axe 3,500 jobs at its BSH home appliances subsidiary by 2027, the latest in a series of cuts among German manufacturers as they struggle with rising costs and weaker demand. The company had to “reduce complexity and costs” in order to “safeguard its competitiveness” in a challenging economic…
The Patiala House Court of Delhi on Friday granted 20 more days to Delhi Police to complete the investigation against Prabir Purkayastha, founder and Editor-in-Chief and Amit Chakravarty, HR Head of the news portal in the case registered under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, following allegations that News Portal NewsClick received…
The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) has filed a 4th supplementary chargesheet against six more accused in a case relating to terror funding, taking the total toll of accused to 18, police said on Friday. According to an official Jammu and Kashmir police release, “Mohd Sharief Chechi, Farooq Ahmad Jungal, and Saif Din…
A fresh demand for the grant of special category status to Bihar was raised inside the assembly on Friday by a key aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is now in the BJP-led NDA. Power Minister Bijendra Yadav, while presenting his department’s budget before the House, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the…
The Allahabad High Court has held that a property purchased by a husband in the name of a wife, who is a homemaker and has no independent source of income, is a family property. Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal said that it is common and natural for Hindu husbands to purchase properties in the name…