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Muslim man has no right to refuse wife’s demand for khula divorce: Telangana High Court
June 25, 2025 10:29 pm
The Telangana High Court's judgment comes on a man's petition challenging a family court order that dismissed his demand to declare the khula nama issued to him as null and void.
Muslim men who marry non-Muslims ‘by concealing identity’ commit grave sin: UP cleric
March 07, 2023 4:29 am
Maulana Shahbuddin Razvi, of the All India Muslim Jamaat, recently hit the headlines when he termed the marriage between Swara Bhaskar and Fahad Ahmed 'illegitimate'.
Iran says Rushdie and supporters to blame for attack
August 15, 2022 1:45 pm
Freedom of speech does not justify Rushdie's insults against religion in his writing, ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani told a news briefing.
Suspect in Rushdie's stabbing showed sympathy to causes of Iran's Revolutionary Guards: Report
August 13, 2022 11:43 am
A preliminary review of suspect Hadi Matar's social media accounts showed him to be sympathetic to Shia extremism and the causes of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
Fatwa against two Bareilly women for ‘speaking out against Islamic practices’
July 22, 2018 4:58 am
On the receiving end of the fatwa are Nida Khan and Farhat Naqvi, who claimed they were “divorced” through triple talaq.
Group of Pakistan clerics issue fatwa against honour killing
June 13, 2016 8:40 pm
The clerics under the banner of Sunni Itehad Council (SIC) told a news conference in Lahore on Sunday that honour killing is kufr (infidelity).
Group of Pakistan clerics issues fatwa against honour killing
June 13, 2016 7:38 am
The clerics under the banner of Sunni Itehad Council (SIC) told a news conference in Lahore on Sunday that honour killing is kufr (infidelity).
What is a fatwa, and who is it for?
April 13, 2016 2:46 am
It pops up in the news every now and then, and people often think of it as a decree, instruction or order — or even something akin to a court farmaan.
All have right to say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai': Smriti Irani
April 02, 2016 6:39 pm
"Chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' is a matter of emotion. Every human being has the right to chant for mother or for the motherland," she told reporters at the airport in Rajkot before leaving for Dwarka.
Islamic State fatwa aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves
June 26, 2020 3:50 am
The Islamic State fatwa sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the sexual slavery of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
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