The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Central government on a fresh plea that challenged the constitutional validity of the practice of polygamy and 'nikah halala' among Muslims in India, and referred the matter to a constitution bench to hear it along similar petitions.


SC seeks Centre's response on plea against polygamy, refers matter to constitution bench


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The Uttarakhand High Court on Monday asked the Union government whether the Badrinath shrine can be declared a national heritage site.


Can Badrinath shrine be declared national heritage: HC to Centre


Even as political parties in Pakistan busied themselves with the last day of campaigning on Monday, minority groups are all set to boycott the elections alleging non-inclusion in the electoral process, and religious hardliners dominating the election agenda.


Religious minorities to boycott Pakistan polls


The Congress on Monday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of lynching of a Muslim man in Rajasthan's Alwar, triggering protests from the ruling BJP and others.


Congress raises Alwar lynching case in Lok Sabha


The Kerala High Court on Monday granted bail to Father Johnson V. Mathew, one of the four priests accused in a rape case of a woman parishioner.


HC gives bail to Kerala priest accused of rape


Goa's Mangueshi temple priest who was booked for molesting two women, has claimed that one of them fabricated the charges against him after he refused to allow the unmarried woman into the sanctum sanctorum.


Goa priest booked for molestation, denies charges


A new batch of 1,208 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the Kashmir Valley to perform the Amarnath Yatra, an official said.


1,208 pilgrims leave for Amarnath Yatra


The 'Bahuda Yatra' or the return journey of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra was on Sunday celebrated at Mayapur, the global headquarters of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Nadia district here along with other parts of West Bengal.


Lord Jagannath's 'Bahuda Yatra' celebrated across Bengal


The police have stepped up protection to a convent near here which is home to a nun who had alleged that she was sexually abused by a Catholic bishop.


Police security up for convent where nun who alleged rape lives


Another batch of 1,561 pilgrims on Sunday left Jammu for the Kashmir Valley to perform the Amarnath Yatra, officials said.


1,561 pilgrims leave for Amarnath Yatra


A court here on Saturday granted interim bail to a priest at the iconic Mangueshi temple who has been accused of allegedly molesting two women inside the temple premises.


Goa temple priest accused of molestation granted interim bail


Attacking the Narendra Modi-led government, Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi on Friday said that the Prime Minister's way of dealing with every problem relating to the problems of the country's people is "polarisation".


Modi's answer to everything is Hindu-Muslim: Trinamool


The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on a plea by Muslim litigants seeking that the hearing on the batch of petitions challenging the 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict directing the splitting of the disputed site at Ayodhya be heard by a larger bench.


SC reserves verdict on plea for larger bench to hear Ayodhya title suit


Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday inaugurated the seven-day long "Kharchi Puja" at Puran Habeli, seven km from the state capital.


Tripura CM inaugurates traditional 'Kharchi Puja'


Goa Police has started a probe into allegations of molestation raised against a priest attached to the popular Mangueshi temple in south Goa, after a victim filed an FIR, an officer said on Friday.


Goa's Mangueshi temple priest booked for molestation


Two persons have died and three others have been buried in rubble on a hillside after a cloud burst triggered heavy rains in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, an official said on Friday.


2 dead in Uttarakhand cloud burst


From pizza to flapjacks, and pasta lasagne to fried noodles, besides a plethora of mouth watering Indian delicacies of varied tastes like pakodas, sabzi, dal and rasamalai are among the "mahaprasad" or food offered to Lord Jagannath daily during the ongoing Ratha Yatra (chariot festival) at the global headquarters of ISKCON here in West Bengal's Nadia district.


MahaPrasad with international flavour at ISKCON Mayapur during Rath Yatra


Karnataka's Shiroor Mutt seer Lakshmivara Theertha Swami passed away on Thursday at a private hospital in Manipal, with doctors attributed the death to suspected poisoning. He was 55.


Karnataka's seer dead, doctors suspect poisoning


The Travancore Devaswom Board on Thursday defended the ban on the entry of females in the age group of 10 to 55 years to the famed Sabarimala temple in Kerala but insisted that it was not a discriminatory practice.


Devaswom justifies ban on entry of women into Sabarimala


Secularisation coupled with respect and tolerance for individual rights such as abortion, divorce and homosexuality can boost a country's economic growth, reveals a study.


Secularism, individual rights can bring economic prosperity: Study


An audio clip, broadcast by a Malayalam television channel on Thursday, purpotedly revealed that the head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church had lied about not knowing that a nun had been sexually abused by a bishop, but the Church argued that the conversation had been "wrongly interpreted".

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