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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new ...

GUWAHATI, India, Feb 25 (Reuters) - India's Assam state has scrapped an 89-year-old law that allowed marriage involving underage Muslims, against opposition from leaders of the minority community who ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 11 story has been refiled to clarify that India is home to the third-largest Muslim population in the world, in paragraph 8) Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of ...

India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world's largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India's independence, Muslims have often faced ...