The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is a set of common laws that apply to all people, regardless of religion. Goa is the only Indian ...

With Uniform Civil Code, BJP can now claim to have delivered on another component of its ‘core’ agenda after the construction ...

Sushil Kutty Uttarakhand the other day announced the Uniform Civil Code and the impact was felt in an OIC country, with media ...

He also cited example of Goa, the only state with UCC law and said that it is a 'partisan and prejudiced' law, where Hindu men have certain advantages over their Muslim and Christian peers.

SynopsisUttarakhand has become the first state in India to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) after Goa, which brings a common set of laws to all the citizens of India regardless of their religion.

No state has officially implemented the UCC. However, the Goa Civil Code is in force since Portuguese times and is considered a Uniform Civil Code. On Monday (January 27), Uttarakhand will become ...

Mr Modi, too, had said that UCC is already in place in the state of Goa and everyone is living happily there. He further asserted that even the Indian Constitution has mentioned the implementation ...

Following the lead of Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) government in Gujarat has also initiated the process to ...

The discretionary power of a faceless state bureaucrat to legally intrude into the private decisions and personal morality of ...

Noting that the UCC in Goa allows a Hindu man to marry a second time if the first wife does not bear a son, the Hyderabad MP wanted to know whether this was Gogoi’s vision of the UCC.

Uttarakhand will enforce a Uniform Civil Code today, laying a framework for uniform marriage, divorce, property, inheritance and adoption laws for all citizens. It will become the second state after ...