TOKYO: Japan’s top court on Wednesday upheld a law that requires married couples to have a common surname, sparking criticism from activists who complain the rule is sexist and outdated...
In a separate but also highly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court said a six-month waiting period for women remarrying after divorce was excessive and should be reduced...
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to start pre-marriage screening of would-be couples for thalassaemia and hepatitis on voluntary basis to apply brakes on the rapidly increasing incidence of both preventable ailments...
The move is aimed to pave way for enforcement of Preventive Health Act, 2009 and Muslim Family Law Act, 1962 in a phase-wise manner...
GUJAR KHAN: A mass marriage ceremony of 30 couples from different parts of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir was organised by a charity organisation in the Daultala town of Gujar Khan on Sunday...
Sheikh Sajid, a UAE-based businessman and the president of Suleman Foundation, endowed household dowry and bore other expenses of the couples...
TAXILA: A total of 12 couples tied the knot at a mass wedding at a local hotel on Sunday...
This was the sixth mass wedding organised by the Minhaj Welfare Foundation’s Wah Cantt chapter, which the wedding organisers said has arranged weddings in which 70 couples have been married...
NEW YORK: Hundreds of couples poured into New York’s Times Square on Friday to re-enact the famous photograph of a kiss between a sailor and a woman celebrating the end of World War II...
The photo, known as “V-J Day in Times Square” for Victory over Japan, shows an American sailor kissing a woman in white, full on the mouth as her right foot rises off the ground...
Explore: For lower-caste Hindus, a Soneri cup symbolises deep-rooted bigotryWithout a law, Hindus say women in their community are easy targets of rape and forced marriage, and face problems in proving the legitimacy of their relationships before the law...
Even in daily affairs, moving forward with any other activity which involves documentation — from opening a bank account to applying for a visa — becomes next to impossible for a...
Pakistani dramas have a reputation for following typical storylines with the same old run-of-the-mill characters...
Five such couples I spotted on television are:Relationship status: First cousins hopelessly in love, without really knowing anything about each otherFunnily enough, it was Mahira Khan's Bin Roye that kick-started this discussion; this seems to be a pattern...
KARACHI: Drumbeats greeted a throng of relatives as around 60 Hindu couples tied the knot at a mass wedding at the YMCA Lawns on Sunday...
The entire place was designed in a circle and within it a sitting area was reserved for each couple with six seats and enough space for a ceremonial fire also known as a mandap...
A mass wedding ceremony of around 45 couples was held in the Chief Minister’s House for the first time here on Tuesday...
Some five couples from a religious minority would be marrying soon after Easter...
Dozens of US couples donned crowns and cradled guns at a controversial ceremony in a Pennsylvania church on Wednesday, forcing a nearby school to close and angering protesters...
The incongruous event in Newfoundland, part of rural Pennsylvania that voted 68 percent for President Donald Trump in 2016, underscored the gulf between those who fiercely defend the US constitutional right to bear arms and advocates of greater gun control......
Couples and alleged sex workers found guilty of breaking Islamic law were publicly whipped in Indonesia's Aceh on Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors...
The three men and five women — who included several college students — were found guilty of violating religious law by either showing affection in public or for offering sexual services online, officials said...
Lawmakers were informed that it was the last day of the assembly to do legislation as it would finally meet on Monday for farewell rituals...
The bill was presented by the parliamentary party leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, Nand Kumar, who said after the passage of the legislation the Hindu community would benefit as a whole, particularly women and children who had been denied those rights for decades in the absence...
The Karachi police chief has discouraged cops from harassing couples and asking them to prove that they are married...
In a notification dated Oct 9 newly appointed Additional Inspector General of Police Amir Sheikh noted: "There is a general complaint that policemen in mobiles and motorcycles harass and humiliate couples by asking them to show 'nikahnama' to prove their credentials as husband and wife...
A case has been registered against a trio of Punjab police constables accused of harassing, filming and blackmailing couples in Lahore for money...
The case had first become public knowledge last month when the said police officials had accused Punjab Minister for Housing Mahmoodur Rasheed's son and his friends of kidnapping them, snatching their weapons, torturing them and hurling threats...
The officials said the couples, residents of Gahlan village, Chak-9, had got married nearly two months ago...
Victims’ relatives, Pattoki residents stage protest on National Highway against Pakistan RailwaysFollowing the accident, the train remained stranded for around two hours, while relatives of the victims and local people gathered on Multan Road near Pattoki bypass and blocked traffic to vent their anger over the loss of lives,...