Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has promised to replace existing religion-based civil codes with a common law to govern marriage, adoption, divorce and inheritance norms for ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - An Indian state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party is set to introduce contentious new common personal laws that will apply across religions next week, a ...

The idea of introducing a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India, replacing religious and customary laws regarding marriage, divorce and inheritance, is sparking debate with proponents advocating for ...

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 ...

At the Justice Ministers Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, India's Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal outlined ...

With Washington DC having eased out the regulatory hurdle in the form of the 810 authorisation, the ball is now in New Delhi’s court to push through the two Indian legislations seen as an impediment ...

A Delhi court has dismissed a plea challenging a civil judge’s order that had rejected a suit seeking that the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Ayodhya case be declared “null and void”. The district ...