For decades, Muslim women in India have lived with the possibility of their husbands ending their marriages instantaneously by muttering one word, talaq, three times. But now, India's highest court ...

Following the news of Shoaib's third marriage with Sana Javed, Sania's father told news agency PTI that Sania had given Shoaib a unilateral divorce. "It was a 'khula'," he told PTI. A few hours later, ...

India’s Supreme Court proscribed the controversial Islamic divorce practice of “triple talaq” on Tuesday, August 22, in a landmark judgement for gender equality and Muslim women’s rights in the ...

On Tuesday, India's Supreme Court ruled the controversial Muslim practice of "instant divorce" unconstitutional in India, something which women's rights advocates and organizations have been fighting ...

India's Supreme Court banned the controversial Islamic divorce practice known as "triple talaq" in a landmark ruling announced Tuesday. India's Supreme Court banned the controversial Islamic divorce ...

Over a million Muslims from across India, the majority of them women, have signed a petition to end the controversial divorce practice of triple talaq. Triple talaq is an Islamic practice where a man ...

The recent hearing on Benazeer Heena vs Union of India has reopened India’s long-standing debate on personal law and gender ...

The Modi government cleared an ordinance on instant triple talaq last week which was quickly referred to as the “greatest reform for the empowerment of Indian Muslim women”. Welcoming the move, most ...

The Telangana High Court on Wednesday ruled that a Muslim woman's right to seek Khula, a form of divorce initiated by the wife, is absolute and does not require her husband's consent or even the ...

Muslim men in India will no longer be able to terminate their marriages in a matter of moments, after a split decision by the country's Supreme Court overruled the practice of "triple talaq." ...

The practice of 'triple talaq' is "fatal for the social institution of marriage" and "makes Muslim women's condition very pathetic", the government argued Monday in an affidavit filed before the ...