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NEW DELHI: British Prime Minister Theresa May is embarking on her maiden visit to India from Today.. “May has a busy schedule during her three day-long visit on as she will participate in as many as five events soon after arriving in New Delhi,” a protocol officer told IANS here. May and Modi will likely address the prospects for business cooperation at a high-profile technology summit in New Delhi on Monday. But, behind closed doors, Indian officials are expected to sound her out on the terms of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union and what it will mean for Indian firms that treat Britain as a gateway to Europe. India has struggled for years to strike a free trade deal with the EU, with officials saying the bloc is a difficult partner to deal with because its leaders tend to deliver contradictory messages and often strike a tone they see as moralising. Bilateral trade in goods and services has moved sideways in recent years, totaling 19 billion pounds ($23.7 billion) in 2014, when Britain ran a deficit of 1.5 billion pounds. The potential for growth is immense.. The issue of triple talaq is not a fight between the state and the Muslims in India because the Muslim community is itself divided on the subject. The Sunday Guardian reached out to common men and women from different Muslim households to ask for their reasons for either demanding or resisting a ban on triple talaq. While all of them unanimously agreed that giving talaq thrice in a single sitting (Talaq-e-biddah) is not only unjust to a woman and her family, but is also a practice that even though permissible is detested by Allah, there was no consensus on how the problem should be solved. While some believe that the state law should bring in reform, others see it as an interference with the Shariah i.e. Islamic law.
Those who agree that Talaq-e-biddah should not be practiced but are against state intervention argue that Islam has a solution to this problem and therefore the religion and its followers should themselves create awareness and bring in reforms that are in line with the Shariah.
Khursheedul Hasan, exsenior officer in the Ministry of Railways, explained why he does not support state intervention in triple talaq,