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 What Was Shah Bano Case | Maintenance For Divorced Muslim Women  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3po8_uBKRU
10 Jul 2024 #ShahBanoCase #MuslimWomenRights #MaintenanceForDivorcedWomen
In the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict on maintenance for divorced Muslim women, we take a look at the Shah Bano case that laid the ground for Muslim women’s fight for equal rights in matters of marriage and divorce in regular courts. The Indian Express’ Charulata Biswas explains.

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‘Men will now abandon, not divorce’ – Muslims divided over Supreme Court alimony verdict.https://theprint.in/feature/men-will-now-abandon-not-divorce-muslims-divided-over-supreme-court-alimony-verdict/2169851/ 

Even for people who wholeheartedly welcome the verdict, a reservation loomed large at the back of their minds. 

“The Supreme Court should not interfere in religious matters, whichever community it is. Muslims follow very balanced laws. You are (SC) making things difficult. Men might choose to abandon her instead of divorce her,” said Asma Zehra Tayeba, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.

Agnipath: 'Degrades Military's Combat Effectiveness; Agniveers are Barely Trained, just sentries’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-yti2u6WPg  10 Jul 2024 Agnipath scheme will degrade combat effectiveness; Agniveers are "barely trained" and only fit "for sentry duties"; military is not a laboratory for social engineering and reform: former Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash

Uttarakhand gov’t snatches forest conservation funds, outsources policing and royalty collection from riverbed miners to private players https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/uttarakhand-violates-sc-orders-on-river-mining
Ignoring the conflict of interest, the BJP government has encouraged tax-collecting private companies to also mine the rivers in the ecologically-fragile Himalayan state. All done in the name of preventing disasters. The state has gone a step further, establishing by regulation, what many experts believe is a classic case of conflict of interest. Any private company that wins the rights to collect taxes from riverbed mining will also be given priority over others to mine the rivers. In other words, a mining company could now be collecting taxes from other miners and also be in charge of preventing illegal extraction of boulders, sand and gravel from the state’s rivers. 

the Uttarakhand government has continuously violated the Supreme Court order which requires the state to plough the money from riverbed mining in forests into conservation – a face saver device to compensate for the damage caused to forests by ecologically harmful activities like river mining. T