Wearing a huge smile and holding a copy of the Constitution, Safiya P M says, “I support a secular Uniform Civil Code (UCC)”. A 51-year-old resident of Kerala’s Alappuzha district, Safiya is an ...
In a number of countries with sizable Muslim and Jewish populations, we asked Muslim and Jewish adults for their views on religion and governance – specifically, whether religious law should be the ...
The petitioner has sought a declaration that the persons who do not want to be governed by the Muslim personal law must be allowed to be governed by the secular Indian Succession Act, 1925 both in ...
Amid a nationwide debate on a Uniform Civil Code, the Supreme Court has asked the Centre if a person born in a Muslim family can follow secular laws in matters of property or is bound to abide by ...
Despite having a Muslim majority, Indonesia is not an Islamic state; it is constitutionally a secular country that officially recognizes six religions. Meet man, who is set to become first Indian ...
Her petition demands that individuals who choose to step away from Islam be permitted to follow the secular laws of the land for matters of succession. The Solicitor General has described the case as ...
Yet, modern day pseudo secular countries particularly in the West want Sri Lanka to discard its primordial ... They had an Inquisitorial mindset shaped by events commencing in Europe in the 15 th ...