Paris: France's constitutional council has rejected a challenge by conservative lawmakers to the country's new gay marriage law, saying the law was constitutional.
That means France could see its first gay marriages by the end of May. France's Parliament passed the law legalizing gay marriage in April after a wrenching national debate.
Opponents led by the conservative UMP party immediately challenged the law in France's Constitutional Council, which rejected their motion on Friday.
The gay marriage law must now be published in the official journal. President Francois Hollande, who made legalising gay marriage one of his campaign pledges in 2012, has promised to see the law published as soon as possible....
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12:46 PM, May 18, 2013
Alipurduar: One person was killed while at least 59 others were injured when a train rammed into a minibus carrying a marriage party at an unmanned level crossing in Coochbehar district late on Monday night. The condition of two persons is stated to be serious. The minibus, carrying over 60 wedding guests, was crossing the tracks between Alipurduar and Baneswar when it was hit by Kamakhyaguri Intercity Express in Bokali...
01:42 AM, May 14, 2013
Hong Kong: A transsexual woman won an appeal in a Hong Kong court on Monday to marry her boyfriend, forcing the government to rewrite marriage laws in the city. The Court of Final Appeal, by a majority of four to one, ruled that the appellant, identified only as W, was entitled to be included as a woman and was therefore eligible to marry a man. "This is a victory for...
04:00 PM, May 13, 2013
London: Actress Jennifer Garner is reportedly worried that her actor-director husband Ben Affleck will cheat on her. The 41-year-old has been married to Affleck since 2005 and the couple has two daughters and a son together, reported Showbizspy. "Jen really doesn't trust Ben. She's going to Cleveland for two weeks this month to begin shooting a new film. While she's away, she's pulling the kids out of school in Brentwood...
01:20 PM, May 13, 2013
Purulia: Every second girl in India is married underage, according to UNFPA data. The UNFPA also says that India has the highest number of child brides. Nearly 47 per cent of girls are married under the legal age of 18. The agency adds that nearly 140 million child marriages may take place between 2011 and 2020 across most developing nations. This means that on an average, 39,000 child marriages will...
04:54 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: More delay expected in the law to give women an equal share in property after divorce as Union Cabinet failed to clear amendments to the Marriage Act following differences between the Law Ministry and Ministry of Women and Child Development. A Group of Ministers will take up the proposed amendments now. At the Cabinet meet on Wednesday, there were sharp differences between the ministries over the question of...
03:24 PM, May 01, 2013
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Government on Wednesday decided to change the rule which makes those getting married before attaining the required age ineligible for government job. The decision was taken by the state cabinet at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal. "Child-marriage is arranged by the parents because of the prevailing customs; the children (who get married) have no role in the decision and they unnecessarily...
01:55 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Hyderabad: The daughter of a legislator in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday approached a court, alleging that her father "detained" her at home for four years and also tried to get her re-married after she married her lover against his wishes. The father dismissed the claims. E Ramya, daughter of ruling Congress party legislator Eeli Nani, approached the Legal Services Authority in Guntur, claiming that she was kept under "house arrest"...
05:42 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Contract marriages are on the rise in Hyderabad, claimed women's rights groups as a teenager blew the lid off India's underground culture of Islamic sex tourism involving men who paid for 'wives' for four weeks, according to a report in the daily 'Telegraph'. The paper claimed that minor escaped after her parents pressurised her to consummate a forced marriage to a middle aged Sudanese man who had paid...
03:01 PM, Apr 23, 2013
London: Troubled stars Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen were seen getting cosy on the Hollywood premiere of their upcoming film 'Scary Movie 5.' Sheen, 47, and Lohan, 26, reunited for the film to play a dysfunctional couple with legal problems, reported Daily Mirror. Lohan showed up late for the red carpet when the event was scheduled to close and just before the movie was about to start. She also got...
03:00 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Dharmapuri: In a shocking incident, a 23-year-old man on Monday hacked a woman to death when she refused to marry him, at a bus-stand in Dharmapuri, police said. The two had an affair while studying at college but the woman's parents had objected to the relationship and asked her to stop seeing the accused, they said. The man, who had left for Coimbatore in search of a job some months...
01:55 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood couple Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Khemu are likely to tie the knot soon. As soon as Soha's brother Saif Ali Khan married Kareena Kapoor last year, there were rumours about her and Kunal's marriage. "As of now we have not made any actual plans for marriage. But yes, if everything goes well then it (marriage) will be soon," Kunal said. Both the actors have been dating since...
02:14 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Madrid: The Spanish government has raised the minimum legal age for marriage from 14 to 16 years. Spain's Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality Ana Mato on Friday said that change was aimed at "improving the well being and quality of life of youngsters", reported Xinhua. Until now, people as young as 14 years could marry with permission from a judge or their family. ...
02:20 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Girls from the desert villages in Rajasthan, which infamous for female foeticide and child marriages, are benefiting, thanks to residential education camps. From would be child brides, they are now looking at financial independence. ...
10:36 AM, Apr 02, 2013
A 27-year-old North Texas man, who was one of the first to receive a full face transplant in the US, has married another burn patient, transforming their pain into bliss. Dallas Wiens married Jamie Nash, 29, on Saturday at a Texas church where a severe electrical accident destroyed his face and eyesight in 2008 as he was making repairs to a window, The Dallas Morning News reported. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 31, 2013
A woman, who had deserted her husband, has been asked by a Delhi court to rejoin him at her matrimonial home on the ground that she has failed to fulfil her "marital obligations". ...
03:55 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu is tired of being constantly questioned about her plans to settle down in life, saying that the media is more worried about her marriage than her own mother. ...
06:34 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Odisha Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty resigned from his position on Friday after his daughter-in-law filed a dowry case against him, his son, his wife and his daughter. Raghunath Mohanty met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and submitted his resignation. ...
09:36 AM, Mar 15, 2013
A dowry case has been filed against Odisha's Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty by his daughter-in-law Barsa Swony Choudhary. Barsa has filed the complaint against her husband, mother-in-law and sister-in-law as well. ...
08:17 AM, Mar 15, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took jibes at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on his comments that becoming Prime Minister is not his priority, saying he has realised that there is no chance of his becoming the PM. "Rahul Gandhi has realised that he will not become the Prime Minister as BJP-led NDA will form the government after the next elections," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters in reply to...
05:42 PM, Mar 06, 2013
