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Christian and Muslim leaders in India have expressed concern and disappointment after the northeastern state of Assam implemented a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), describing the move as divisive and ...
News India » Assam » Religion: India’s Assam State to Introduce Uniform Civil Code
The Assam government has firmed up plans for enacting a uniform civil code (UCC). Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently announced that the state cabinet had discussed the uniform civil code and ...
News India » Assam » Religion: Indian State Moves to Criminalize Praying for the Sick
A proposed ban on “magical healing” is the latest government initiative targeting Christian practice and evangelism in Assam. State lawmakers in India are seeking to curtail evangelism with a ban on ...
News India » Assam » Religion: Assam CM Hemanta Biswa Sarma vows to end 'invasion' by 'one religion'
GUWAHATI: Assam has reclaimed from illegal Muslim settlers 160sq km of forest and other government-owned land, constituting an area larger than size of Chandigarh and almost 75 per cent of Guwahati, ...
News India » Assam » Religion: Indian state strikes down controversial colonial-era law that allowed Muslim child marriage
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File image: Brides attend a mass Islamic marriage ceremony organised by the Gujarat Sarvajanik Welfare Trust in Ahmedabad on 4 ...
News India » Assam » Religion: Amb. Stephen Rapp on How the Ground Is Being Prepared for Ethnic Cleansing in India
“The non-stop incitement and conduct of anti-Muslim violence, in the absence of any accountability for perpetrators, has resulted in the normalization of persecution.” Screenshot of a now-deleted ...
News India » Assam » Religion: India's Assam scraps colonial-era Muslim marriage law
GUWAHATI, India, Feb 25 (Reuters) - India's Assam state has scrapped an 89-year-old law that allowed marriage involving underage Muslims, against opposition from leaders of the minority community who ...
News India » Assam » Religion: Aakar Patel | Inter-religion Sale Of Houses: New Laws From Guj to Assam
New India has come upon us at such a rapid pace that it is important to step back occasionally and assess where we have arrived. On August 28 last year, the BJP in ...