Creating history, Uttarakhand today became the first Indian state to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The Chief ...

Uttarakhand scripted history by becoming the first state in India to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) on Monday. Chief ...

It is a controversial issue in Indian politics as minorities and opposition parties see it as a vehicle for Hindu majoritarianism. Earlier this month, a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ...

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Last week, on 9 th ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Uttarakhand, a small northern Indian state governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party, passed a bill to replace religion-specific civil laws with a ...

The Telangana High Court has corrected gender-based inequality rooted in religious personal laws — an inequality that contradicts Article 15 of the Indian Constitution, which forbids discrimination on ...

While hearing a divorce case for a heterosexual Hindu couple a few days ago, the Delhi High Court opined that the time had come for the Central Government to introduce a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for ...

DY Chandrachud on Saturday hailed the Constitution as the force offering stability to nation. Former CJI D Y Chandrachud praised the Constitution for national stability and unity He stated the ...

NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuters) - Authorities in an Indian state want to ban polygamy as part of a bid by the Hindu-nationalist central government to standardise the civil code across the country.