Baba Sahib, as Dr Ambedkar was affectionately called, was also remembered time and again in Parliament as the two Houses debated the Mandal report and the tragic fall-out of the Government’s decision ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its support for the Uniform Civil Code in the country while hearing a petition challenging provisions of Muslim personal law that allegedly discriminate against ...

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), the biggest political outfit of Muslims, said it would respond negatively to the Uniform Civil Code. Hyderabad: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nine months before a general election, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have dusted off a potentially divisive plan to ...

The Indian government has initiated the process to establish a uniform personal code replacing religion-based family law, but religious leaders including Christians are reticent. The Law Commission of ...

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 ...

Religious minority Christians and Muslims in the western Indian state of Gujarat have expressed skepticism after the government approved a uniform civil code bill to replace existing religion-based ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday he wanted to press ahead with a national common civil code of law, a proposal bitterly opposed by Muslim activists as an attack on their faith.

An Indian state announced Monday it had begun implementing a common civil code to replace religious laws, stoking fear among minority Muslims of a looming nationwide rollout by the Hindu-nationalist ...

Mumbai: Members of the Shia Muslim community from across the country will be meeting in Lucknow on December 28 to discuss the possibility of a common civil code in India and to demand a commission to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A Muslim man reads the Koran as he sits in front of a billboard featuring India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a ...