Since 2015, more than 11,000 women married to Indians abroad have approached India’s foreign missions with complaints of domestic crises. Many cases involve allegations of fraud and abuse. But in most instances, overseas officials are able to do only so much to help.
Polygyny or the practice of having more than one wife is legal in India only for Muslims, but National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data shows it is almost as prevalent in other communities, though on the decline in all.
The children of unwed mothers and rape victims can live in this country with the fundamental rights of privacy, liberty, and dignity, the Kerala High Court has said and allowed a person to include his mother’s name alone in the birth certificate, identity certificates and other documents.
It was the tragic death by suicide that has laid bare the daily trauma of the three sisters from a landless household married to an affluent family with demands for dowry from impoverished parents.
Days after a 33-year-old woman allegedly killed herself in southeast Delhi's Jaitpur, having been "forced to undergo abortion 14 times" by her live-in partner in a span of eight years, police have booked the man on charges of rape, forced abortion, and abetment of suicide.
Since India’s independence, population stabilization has been one of the prime concerns in its development agenda.
He was on the run for the last one month after causing death of a 27-year-old woman
An Act to protect the rights of married Muslim women and to prohibit divorce by pronouncing talaq by their husbands and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The objective of the