Afreen, Shayara, Ishrat, Gulshan - and countless others. These are among the women who stood at the heart of India's historic legal battle against triple talaq - the much-debated Islamic practice that ...

It wasn’t an easy feat to ban the practise of triple talaq (divorce). The battle against instant talaq by Indian Muslim women was hard-won and deeply significant. At that time, the practice of triple ...

Petitioner Shayara Bano welcomes Supreme Court's triple talaq verdict, says bring a law on the practice as soon as possible ...

Heeramandi Characters Seem To Come Out Of Some Very Basic Research Which Got Lost In Translation!(Photo Credit –Facebook) Finally, the weekend is over, and we assume most of us have watched Sanjay ...

A day after the Allahabad high court observed that Islamic laws on divorce “inflict tyranny and suffering” on women, Shayara Bano, who initiated a legal battle against the contentious practice, called ...

Indian Muslim women are in the midst of creating history. Perhaps for the first time since the controversial Shah Bano case of 1985, a growing movement for the legal rights of Muslim women in matters ...

The fight against triple talaq, though supported by a number of women’s rights activists and constant media attention, was led by the victims themselves. Shayara Bano, a 35-year-old woman from ...

Shayara Bano, who has campaigned against triple talaq, spoke to NDTV. Shayara Bano, the woman who first approached the top court after receiving the divorce through speed post said that senior clerics ...

KASHIPUR, India — More than a year ago, the letter carrier handed the soft-spoken Shayara a letter that would not only change her life but trigger a national storm about the rights of Muslim women in ...

After seventy years of pussy footing on an issue that militates against the core values of our Constitution, the Union government has made a series of unambiguous assertions in its affidavit before ...

As the Supreme Court hearings on the Shayara Bano case pick up momentum, media attention also returns to the 1985 Shah Bano case. The two cases have apparently little in common. For Shah Bano's plea ...

Shayara, who will now commute between Kashipur to Moradabad for MBA said that she had anticipated a positive response from the court but did not know that it would deliver such an overwhelming verdict ...