The Assam government has firmed up plans for enacting a uniform civil code (UCC). Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently announced that the state cabinet had discussed the uniform civil code and ...

The Indian State of Uttarakhand passed the first-of-its-kind Uniform Civil Code Wednesday, which imposes common rules for all communities on marriage, divorce, inheritances, land, property and live-in ...

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 ...

India, July 4 -- 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 ...

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 — where ...

Pakistan’s parliament has passed the eagerly awaited Islamabad Capital Territory Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2025 restricting marriage below 18 years of age, meanwhile, the Council of Islamic ...

Uttarakhand boasts the creation of 26,000 government jobs in four years, aiming for 36,000 by next year. The state, marking its silver jubilee, highlights the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code, ...

In a landmark move that has sent ripples through India's complex social and legal landscape, Uttarakhand has become the first state to implement a common civil code since independence, marking a ...

On Uniform Civil Code, Former Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, said, "The Constitution expresses the desirability of a Uniform Civil Code. I said that it is important for us, at least 75 years ...

Delhi High Court has asked the Indian government to legislate a uniform personal law to govern all citizens regardless of their religion — a move Christians and Muslims have been opposing for decades.

It is the third state after Uttarakhand and Gujarat – all ruled by the Hindu nationalist BJP – to take steps toward a common civil law for all religious groups. It has enacted legislation to implement ...