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It was a sultry day on July 3, 2021, and the political temperature in the hill State of Uttarakhand was equally hot as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was set to announce a new Chief Minister, third one in the past four months. Names of bigwigs were making rounds in the political corridors and…
Guwahati: Uttarakhand has become the first state in the country to implement UCC, but the Chief Minister of another hill state has ruled out a similar step. The implementation of Uniform Civil Code is neither practical nor appropriate, given the country’s diverse cultural and tribal communities, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said today. He, however,…
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Underscoring that the Uniform Civil Code or UCC will strengthen the spirit of democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday hailed it as “Secular Civil Code”, a day after Uttarakhand became the first state to implement the law. “Yesterday, Uttarakhand became the state to implement the Uniform Civil Code…I congratulate the Uttarakhand government for this. It…
New Delhi: Uttarakhand will implement a Uniform Civil Code from January 27, laying a framework for uniform marriage, divorce, property, inheritance and adoption laws for all citizens. It will become the second state after Goa to have a uniform legal framework for citizens. Implementation of the Code comes almost a year after the Bill was…
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Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister’s secretary Shailesh Bagoli said that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will be implemented in Uttarakhand on January 27, a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival in Dehradun. CM Pushkar Singh Dhami will also launch the UCC portal on the same day. The UCC portal will be launched at 12:30 pm…
Dehradun: The Pushkar Singh Dhami-led Cabinet approved the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) manual during a meeting at the state secretariat on Monday, with the dates for its implementation to be announced soon. The Cabinet approved the manual after making partial amendments to the rules recently prepared for implementing the UCC. The amended rules, examined by…
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Bareilly: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday highlighted the various initiatives undertaken in the state, reaffirming the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the “Devbhoomi” this month. Uttarakhand is the first state in the country to have UCC Act, which seeks to establish a uniform and an equal set of rules…
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Amit Shah also asked Congress that why UCC has not been implemented yet. New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday accused the Congress of appeasement politics, saying the party has not been able to bring a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and asked the party to spell out if there should there be a…
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Law Minister asserted that “no guidelines were issued to states for implementing the uniform civil code”. New Delhi: The government on Friday rejected suggestions that it has issued guidelines to states to implement a uniform civil code. In a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha about “guidelines issued by the government for…
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Dehradun: Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Sunday that religious conversion, encroachment, “land jihad and thook (spit) jihad” will not be allowed in ‘Devbhoomi’ Uttarakhand. He also called upon the educated people to come forward to stop such things. At a felicitation ceremony in Udham Singh Nagar district’s Kichha, the chief minister said that…
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