Daily Newsletter | Friday, December 08, 2017
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| Wife’s religion does not merge with husband’s after marriage: SC |
| “[The] Special Marriage Act was enacted so that a man and woman professing different faiths can marry and retain their religious identity after marriage. There is no question of merger of woman’s religion with that of her husband’s. Only she on her own volition can give up her religion,” the bench observed. |
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| Cong suspends Aiyar after ‘neech’ jibe at Modi |
| Congress suspended Mani Shankar Aiyar after the former Union minister described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “neech aadmi”. Aiyar blamed the derogatory remark on his poor Hindi. “My Hindi is not very good. Yes, I called Modi ‘neech’ but did not mean it as a low-born; I meant it as low,” he said. |
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| What’ve we come to: Bombay HC on Padmavati row |
| The Bombay high court on Thursday asked where the country was headed while alluding to “open threats” made to stall the release of the film Padmavati and the announcement of a reward to “kill” its lead actress Deepika Padukone. |
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| AAP rejects Lalu’s wishes to unite with party |
| NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party rejected the overtures of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav who wishes to be a moderator to forge a union of opposition parties by bringing AAP, Congress and other leading opposition on a single platform before 2019 general elections. |
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| HWL Final: Argentina set up semi-final date with India |
| Argentina held off late England charge to record a 3-2 win in the Hockey World League Final on Thursday and booked a semi-final date with host India on Friday. Vila (21′), Pardes (29′) and Gilardi (34′) scored for the Olympic champions while Condon (29′) and Dixon (60′) scored for England in the quarter-finals. |
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| $1 bn SAIL-Mittal deal due next week: Sources |
| The much-delayed collaboration to make automotive-grade steel is nearing realisation after legal teams from SAIL and ArcelorMittal finalised a joint term-sheet in talks mediated by a government think-tank in the past two weeks, the sources said. |
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