Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed government in 2014, it has been acting on several priorities set by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), including, among others, the revision of family ...

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. By Erica L. Green Erica L. Green covers the White House and reported from Washington. In ...

The renewed push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), with Uttarakhand becoming the first state to enact one, is being projected as a step toward national unity through secularism. But this framing ...

Uttarakhand became the first state in independent India to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), whiUttarakhand became the first state in independent India to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), ...

Such has been the intensity of dialogues surrounding the idea of a “uniform civil code” that one may be well advised to refrain from commenting in its favour, lest they be labelled “communal’.

Justice Kumar said that the Uniform Civil Code is mentioned in Article 44 of the Constitution, and only by implementing it can equality and justice be guaranteed to citizens.

Enact law on Uniform Civil Code to give justice to women irrespective of caste and religion, Karnataka High Court requests Parliament and State Legislature ...

"The country needs a Uniform Civil Code in respect of Personal Laws and religion," the Court on April 4 observed, "only then the object of Article 14 of the Constitution of India will be achieved." ...

The Uniform Civil Code is in line with the wishes of the framers of the Constitution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed in Parliament on Thursday. “Some people must be thinking as to what ...

Uniform Civil Code in line with visions of Constitution makers, says PM Modi in Rajya Sabha Some people must be thinking of what this UCC is. Those who will read about the Constitution debate will ...

The Uniform Civil Code refers to a common set of personal laws that apply to all citizens of India, irrespective of their caste, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel has set up a five-member panel, chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Desai, to draft the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for the state. The committee will submit its ...