The Indian government has initiated the process to establish a uniform personal code replacing religion-based family law, but religious leaders including Christians are reticent. The Law Commission of ...

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), the biggest political outfit of Muslims, said it would respond negatively to the Uniform Civil Code. Hyderabad: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul ...

After Uttarakhand promulgated a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a few other BJP-ruled states decided to follow suit. Gujarat has set up a committee to draft its code, which held its first sitting on Tuesday ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nine months before a general election, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have dusted off a potentially divisive plan to ...

The Assam government has firmed up plans for enacting a uniform civil code (UCC). Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently announced that the state cabinet had discussed the uniform civil code and ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday he wanted to press ahead with a national common civil code of law, a proposal bitterly opposed by Muslim activists as an attack on their faith.

In a landmark move that has sent ripples through India's complex social and legal landscape, Uttarakhand has become the first state to implement a common civil code since independence, marking a ...

After Uttarakhand promulgated a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a few other BJP-ruled states followed suit. Gujarat has set up a committee to draft its code, which held its first sitting on Tuesday. Uttar ...

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today termed BJP's manifesto as “mere sloganeering” and said issues like Common Civil Code, Ram temple and Article 370 are handles for the ...