In his speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra reiterated two contentious issues the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems determined to push. One was the proposal to hold simultaneous elections throughout the country, including the centre and the states. The other was to impose an infeasible Uniform Civil …
The Assam Cabinet decided Friday night to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriage and Divorce Registration Act, 1935, taking the first step towards a Uniform Civil Code in the state, a fortnight after the Uttarakhand Assembly became the first in the country to show the green light to the UCC. Announcing the Assam Cabinet decision on …
Essentially, the Bill seeks to equate heterosexual live-in relationships to the status of a marriage. A separate chapter in the proposed Code deals with live-in relationships, defining them as a “relationship between a man and a woman” (partners) who “cohabit in a shared household through a relationship in the nature of marriage, provided that such …
UCC refers to a common set of laws that are applicable to all the citizens of India New Delhi: The Uttarakhand Assembly will take up the final draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) today, days after it was approved by the state cabinet. If the bill is passed and the law gets implemented, Uttarakhand …
A state government-appointed panel to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) on Friday submitted the document to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. The draft was handed over to the chief minister by the five-member committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai. A meeting of the state cabinet has …
Exempting tribal communities from the purview of the proposed legislation, prioritising women’s equality, banning practices like polygamy, and arriving at a uniform marriage age across religions are among the recommendations of the five-member expert committee that submitted a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday, The …