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 ...

No political party in power took this short step despite SC goading NEW DELHI: When the Constitution was just a year-old, law minister B R Ambedkar had stoically met the charge that the Hindu 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 ...