Family

In what is touted as a historic move, the All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) on Sunday unveiled a new nikahnama (marriage agreement) which gave Shia women the right to seek divorce on many more grounds than they enjoyed earlier. In a radical departure from previous Muslim convention, it also gave women the right to maintainence after divorce until they became self-dependent. The AISPLB said Shia women could ask for ... [full story]

With the infertility rates at an all time high abroad, a large number of foreigners are coming to India to seek surrogate mothers. Other factors include demand for Indian genes and its absolute lack of laws on surrogacy and the low cost of treatment. Anoop Gupta, medical director, Delhi IVF and Fertility Research Centre, "We have delivered about 100 surrogate children. I receive six to 10 ... [full story]

Prompted by a rapid decline in this community’s size, the Catholic Church in Kerala has called upon its followers to have more babies, if they are economically well off. The advice comes in a pastoral letter, read out in some 2,000 parishes on Sunday. The pastoral letter written by Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithayathil tells Christians to have more children, in order to save the reportedly dwindling community. According to Cardinal ... [full story]

A British court has awarded 35,000 pounds compensation to one Gina Satvir Singh (26) after bringing a landmark legal case against her mother-in-law who treated her like a servant. Gina Satvir Singh (26) had an arranged marriage with Hardeep Singg Bhakar (28) and went to live with his family in Essex but her mother-in-law Dalbir Kaur Bhakar, 52, would not give her daughter-in-law a house key, and was not even ... [full story]