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 ...

The story so far: Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, Gujarat on October 29 joined the list of BJP-ruled States that have called for implementing the Uniform Civil ... Code, and the Contract ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena on Saturday strongly advocated the need for a uniform civil code in the country ... The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 1996, introduced by the BJP's ...

MUZAFFARNAGAR: With the Uttarakhand government tabling the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the assembly, president of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Maulana Arshad Madani, currently in Bangladesh ...

Further, the SC recommended that a uniform civil code be set up. The then government under pressure passed the Muslim Women’s (Right to Protection on Divorce) Act (MWA) in 1986, which made ...

With the commencement of the special Uttarakhand Assembly session on Monday, the stage is set for Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s government to table the Uniform Civil Code (UCC ...