Creating history, Uttarakhand today became the first Indian state to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, announced the launched the UCC ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uttarakhand, a Himalayan state in northern India, has become the first to pass a new law that, regardless of religion, governs the personal matters of all Indian citizens including marriage, divorce, ...

Christian and Muslim leaders have disapproved of the passing of a polarising and contentious uniform civil code by a pro-Hindu government in a northern Indian state. The Uniform Civil Code Bill was ...

Days before Uttarakhand rolls out its Uniform Civil Code, becoming the first state in the country to do so, chief minister ...

The government said the changes are meant to introduce "flexibility". The Uttarakhand government has filed a 78-page affidavit in the high court saying that a few provisions of rules under the Uniform ...

NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuters) - Authorities in an Indian state want to ban polygamy as part of a bid by the Hindu-nationalist central government to standardise the civil code across the country.