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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicUttarakhand UCC

Topic: Uttarakhand UCC

Uttarakhand UCC gives live-in couples more burdens. There are very few returns

The UCC’s part on live-in relationships, added almost as an afterthought, introduces a novel unwanted concept of “parental consent” into consensual adult intimacy.

Uttarakhand UCC implementation panel plans mobile app, web portal to register live-in relationships

UCC makes it mandatory for those in live-in relationships to notify registrar under whose jurisdiction they live, stipulates jail term of up to 3 months, or fine up to Rs 10,000 or both.

Uttarakhand UCC doesn’t reform Indian family law. Gender equality was never its intention

It discriminates between the parents of a child on matters of guardianship, does not provide equal rights to children born outside marriage, and fails to reform the outdated Hindu law on adoption.

160-yr-old law on wills for modern India? Uttarakhand’s UCC has just copy-pasted it

The colonial-era law governing wills is bulky, overly prescriptive, and inaccessible. It should be simple and pithy. Most countries follow this format.

Uttarakhand UCC delivers status quo for wives & mothers, while promising ‘gender justice’

Uttarakhand's Uniform Civil Code claims to ensure gender justice by abolishing discriminatory practices among Muslims, but fails to address other unjust laws.

Uttarakhand UCC Bill does a lot of things. Achieving true ‘uniformity’ is not one of them

The Uttarakhand UCC Bill has failed to achieve its intended goal of uniformity. Instead, it appears to be an exercise in shoddy replication of existing laws and selective criminalisation.

Uttarakhand UCC resembles colonial South African law. Kasturba Gandhi fought against it

Like the Uttarakhand UCC, the Esop judgment in 1913 South Africa was supremacist and demeaning to the customs and practices of minorities.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.