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Amendments of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969

  The Union Cabinet today approved the introduction of a Bill in the Budget Session of Parliament to amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 to include registration of marriages as well, so that the existing administrative mechanisms will be able to carry ..

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National Consultation on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 and the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961

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Misuse of Section 498A

  In the cases Preeti Gupta v. State of Jharkhand (decided on August 13, 2010) and Ramgopal v. State of M.P. (Order dated July 30, 2010) relating to Section 498A, the Supreme Court of India has observed that complaints are not always bona fide and are ..

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Compulsory Registration of Marriage

  The States of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Tripura have already t..

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Hindu woman entitled to equal property rights: SC

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Compulsory Registration of Marriages

The Supreme Court vide its judgment dated 14.02.2006 in Seema Vs. Ashwani Kumar (AIR 2006 S.C 1158) has directed the State Governments and the Central Government that marriages of all persons who are citizens of India belonging to various religious denomination sh..

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Amendment of Anand Marriage Act

The Central Government was considering the proposal to amend the Anand Marriage Act, 1909 so as to provide for registration of Sikh Marriages therein. However, pursuant to the direction of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Seema Vs. Ashwani Kumar, rep..

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Child Adoption Process being simplified and made online

  The Minister of Women & Child Development Smt. Krishna Tirath has stressed upon simplified administrative and legal process for adoption. Reacting to Media on a recently held workshop on Inter-country ad..

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Proposal to amend the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961

  The Government of India is mulling over a proposal to review/amend some provisions of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.Replying to a question in Lok Sabha today the Minister of Women and Child Development Smt. Krishna Tirath st..

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Child adoption process being further simplified

  The Government is making all efforts to facilitate the child adoption process both on legal as well as social front. The Minister of Women and Child Development Smt. Krishna Tirath stated in Lok Sabha in reply to a questio..

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Parental intrusion ruining couples' marital life:Delhi high court

Parental intrusion ruining couples' marital life:Delhi high court     st1:cit..

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Temple Authorities act as Marriage registrar

In Tamilnadu on 18.12.2010 the Tamilnadu Government announced that the Hindu temple authorities (endowment board, mutts) can register the marriages  as per the HIndu marriage registration Rules.  After the registration of marriages the registers will be handed over the concerned Sub-registrar and has to get acknowledgement . The certified copies can be obtained from the sub-registr..

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Mentally husband confine to one month jail to pay maintenance

  Ms Amandeep K. Chauhan, JMIC, Patiala, Punjab has ordered one month sentence for payments of interim allowance without warrant and confine to custody the mentally ill husband under treatment since year 2007 from Fortis Hospital, Mohali on the same da..

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Impeachment of Judge

  NEWS FLASH     Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court has been found guilty of corruption by a parliamentary committee. Parliament will now begin the process to impeach him.  /o:p..

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Death penalty should be given to those killing for dowry: SC

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