Essence of secularism implies removing any trace of religion from family laws. A uniform civil code needs to be implemented at the earliest to keep India’s diverse moral fabric intact After the ...

An Indian state announced on Monday it had begun implementing a common civil code to replace religious laws, stoking fear among minority Muslims of a looming nationwide roll-out by the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Former vice president of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, said on Wednesday (October 6, 2024) that the time was ripe for a “Common Civil Code” that would have common laws across communities for marriage, ...

Such a scenario can be intrinsically divisive, as a nation with different civil laws in different states was never intended by the framers of the Constitution After Uttarakhand promulgated a Uniform ...

NEW DELHI: VHP said opposition to the introduction of a uniform civil code in the country was an "insult" to the judiciary, and alleged that Congress was doing so for its vote bank politics. The VHP ...

The Uniform Civil Code came into effect in Uttarakhand on Monday, with Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inaugurating a manual of rules for the code and also launching an online portal for its ...