Lucknow, Dec 10 (IANS) Islamic scholars have said that Muslim personal law mandates that women -- mother, sister, wife, daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, stepsister, grandmother and great-grandmother -- should get shares in inheritance as directed by holy Quran.
Seoul, Dec 9 (IANS) A recent court victory for South Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery was confirmed on Saturday after Japan decided not to appeal the earlier ruling, sources said.
London, Dec 7 (IANS) Rishi Sunak, 42, the Indian-origin British Prime Minister, is fighting with his back to the wall to save his premiership as well as his political career.
New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has ruled that criminal proceedings cannot be quashed on the basis of a compromise between alleged kidnappers and parents of a minor child.
Dubai, Dec 6 (IANS) The COP28 Presidency on Wednesday joined with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28, and Bloomberg Philanthropies to call on housing, urban development, environment, and finance ministers to back the ‘Joint Outcome Statement on Urbanisation and Climate Change.’
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS/101 Reporters) Tanuja (38), a Dalit student from Maharashtra, worked single-handedly as a health researcher to do the primary study of the subject, planning and the actual research in a span of four years. However, when time to publish the research study came, her name was dropped. The institution simply refused to give her credit as an author.
Dubai, Dec 4 (IANS) In a powerful demonstration of global solidarity, governments, businesses, investors and philanthropies have announced over $57 billion across the climate agenda in just the first four days of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28).
Dakshina Kannada, (Karnataka) Dec 4 (IANS) BJP leader Malavika Avinash asserted that Hindu young women who marry a Muslim would lose their rights.
London, Dec 3 (IANS) British Indian former Home Secretaries of the UK have been accused of operating a secret policy to deny 1,600 victims of trafficking their right to live in the country, according to a media report.
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and Manipur government to look into a plea filed by a group of students, displaced due to ethnic strife in the north-eastern state, seeking accommodation in different Central universities in the country to prevent loss of one academic year.
