“If Goa was merged, then Uniform Civil Code would have not been applicable here. It would have been a small region of Maharashtra. UCC is now on the agenda of BJP government at Centre, they give ...

Mumbai: The people of Goa have “as a whole” accepted a version of the Uniform Civil Code that the state has had for over a century, Goa Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai said Monday, at a time ...

Mumbai: Only those who have multiple wives, have an issue with Uniform Civil Code, said Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, pressing for a nation-wide implementation of UCC. At the ninth global ...

Goa women’s groups have sought more time to deliberate and then share their views on the UCC. (Shutterstock) The groups comprising several NGOs working for women’s welfare have expressed ...

UCC is not based on caste and religion." "It is upto the centre on when to implement the Uniform Civil Code," said Chieg Minister Pramod Sawant. He said that he is very proud since Goa is the ...

Panaji/Bicholim: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that after Goa and Uttarakhand, the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) needs to be extended to all states of the country. Speaking at the Nari ...

President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday hailed Goa’s "common civil code" in Goa, voicing in favour of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) that the Union government has been proposing for the country.

Amid the debate over the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that UCC is already in place in the state of Goa and everyone is living happily there. Amid the debate over the ...

follow their own customary laws While the Supreme Court in 2019 hailed Goa as a “shining example” of an Indian State which has a functioning UCC, experts point out that the ground reality in ...

Currently, UCC is applicable only in Goa, while a bill is under discussion in Uttarakhand. Western countries, such as the US and France, already have UCCs in place, while countries such as India ...

The BJP recently implemented a Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand. Gujarat and Assam are considering adopting a UCC. Goa, a former Portuguese colony, had followed the UCC based on Portuguese law ...