Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar dismissed the possibility of a Uniform Civil Code, stating that India's ...

Amid a nationwide debate on a Uniform Civil ... secular laws in matters of property or is bound to abide by the Sharia, the Muslim personal law. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv ...

Christian and Muslim leaders have expressed dismay after the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand adopted a common civil code ... all follow their own civil laws, influenced by religious texts and ...

Senathirajah, a veteran politician and stalwart figure in Tamil nationalist politics, passed away in Jaffna last week, aged ...

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India has emerged as the third-most common country for FCPA enforcement actions since 2010, with its complex regulatory environment and ...

Shiva Ganesh is one among thousands of people born in Sri Lanka who sought refuge in India during the civil ... law in Sri Lanka that had profound consequences for the Indian Tamil community.

It is most refreshing, most reassuring and so also most rejuvenating to learn that the Supreme Court in a most learned, ...

It derives common rules and regulations from ... a British scholar and administrator who codified Hindu law for use in the civil law courts of the East India Company in the 19th century.

The protests were driven by the fear that the law could be used, along with the nationwide National Register of Citizens, to render Indian Muslims stateless. The Uniform Civil Code is a common set ...

With BJP’s decisive victory in the Delhi Assembly elections, the saffron party has received a shot in the arm to push its ...