Expressing concern over an increasing number of divorce cases flooding the courts, the Supreme Court on June 17 observed that the Hindu Marriages Act had done more harm to the family system in the country than strengthening it. “The Hindu Marriages Act has broken more homes than uniting,” a vacation Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and G S Singhvi observed. The apex court passed the observation while dealing with a petition filed by a divorcee for seeking his child’s custo...

The Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) Maharashtra seems to have tightened its noose around the neck of the Hindutva extremist organisations like Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) and Sanatan Sanstha (SS) for their alleged role into the Thane bomb blasts.

In the bomb explosion at the Gadkari Rangayatan Auditorium in Thane seven people were wounded. In the bombing detonator, gelatine rods and timer were used. A bomb was planted at Vinoba Bhave theatre at Navi Mumbai, which was later diffused.<...

The Tamilnadu Muslim Makkal Katchi has formally lodged a complaint with the Commissioner of Police, Chennai against the Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray for inciting Hindus to form and activate “Hindu Suicide Squads” and thus take law into their own hands and create, thereby, communal tension and rupture, said the Katchi president S.M. Pasha in a statement on June 19.

The Katchi appeals to communal, peace-loving individuals and organisations to join it ...

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray should be arrested and booked under treason law, said renowned historian Amresh Mishra in a statement issued from Mumbai.

The historian said the victims of the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat are still to get justice. This is the violation of Articles 14, 15, 16, 19 and 20, he said. Violation of an Article in the Constitution is tantamount to treason, he said. That is why he has demanded Modi be booked under the law...

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad has asked Delhi Railway Station officers to prepare all official signboards at the station in the Urdu language also. He issued orders to this effect during his unannounced visit to the station on June 22.

He met passengers of Samjhauta Express standing at the platform and checked the facilities provided for them. On the request of the passengers of that train, he ordered officials to put name plates in Urdu also. He also wished them for their ...