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Politics

Triple Talaq bill is all about establishing gender equality, correcting a historic wrong: Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2019

PM Modi's name will go down the history in the same league as social reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar who fought for women's rights

News Reports

TMC leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury refuses to accept the Triple Talaq Act, says it is attack on Islam

OpIndia Staff - 1 August, 2019

"we cannot follow the law", TMC leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury refuses to accept Triple Talaq Act

Opinions

Hate crimes against Hindus and how Muslim women and minors are often equal participants: Here are some examples

K Bhattacharjee - 12 July, 2019

A disturbing pattern that has emerged in such crimes is the participation of women and minors of the Muslim community.

Law

In stark contrast to Sabarimala case, SC rejects PIL demanding Muslim women entry into Mosques, ban purdah system

OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2019

Supreme Court upheld the Kerala High Court's orders questioning the locus standi of the petitioner while dismissing the petition demanding entry for women into mosques for praying

News Reports

Aligarh: Muslim woman allegedly assaulted and asked to vacate home by landlord Sultan and family after she joined BJP

OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2019

A woman named Gulistana from Aligarh has alleged that her landlord Sultan had asked her to vacate the house after she joined BJP. Sultan's family is also accused of assaulting Gulistana.

Crime

Hzar khan poses as doctor, marries woman, converts her, then forces her to file rape cases against people so he can extort money

OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2019

A complaint was registered against Hzar Khan for extortion, unnatural sex, fabrication of evidence and criminal intimidation following his wife's complaint.

Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Shabir thrashes and gives triple talaq to his wife for asking Rs 30 to buy vegetables

OpIndia Staff - 1 July, 2019

The victim’s father said his daughter had a strained relationship with her husband since the time she got married. He said that Sabir had previously also thrashed Zainab and hit her with a stick on her head.

News Reports

Baby ‘Narendra Modi’ is now Aftab, the mother blames her journalist cousin for convincing her to pull off the ‘fraud’

OpIndia Staff - 30 June, 2019

The mother has blamed her journalist cousin, Mushtaq Ahmed, a journalist with Hindi daily Hindustan in Gonda, for allegedly convincing her to pull off the ‘fraud’

News Reports

Muslim mother changes child’s name from ‘Narendra Modi’ to ‘Mohammed Altaf Modi’, claims pressure from family and community

OpIndia Staff - 29 May, 2019

Mainaz Begum in UP's Wazirganj had stated that the child was born on 23 May, the day PM Modi won a second term, so she had named her child as Narendra Damodardas Modi.

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