On February 7, the Uttarakhand Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, becoming the first legislature in independent India to pass a law that proposes common rules on marriage ...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami encourages the youth to confront misinformation surrounding the state's ...

Dehradun (Uttarakhand ... promulgation of the Uniform Civil Code? you study it. Study the debates of the constitutional ...

"To assess the need for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and to prepare a draft bill for the same, we have decided to form a committee under the former judge of the Supreme Court," CM Patel said.

Titled ‘The Uniform Civil Code of Uttarakhand, 2024’, the Bill was one of the BJP’s poll promises during the 2022 Assembly election campaign. Although its applicability is supposed to be ...

The push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India, exemplified by Uttarakhand's enactment, is framed as secular progress. However, critics argue true equality requires dismantling inequities within ...

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami was honored by the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Mahamanch at a program held in Haridwar for implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Uttarakhand. This event was ...

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Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel has set up a five-member panel, chaired by retired Supreme Court ... UCC in Uttarakhand: The state government has implemented the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code Act ...