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U arakhand Assembly passes UCC Bill; becomes India's
first state to implement Uniform Civil Code
A day after Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami
introduced the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, the state Assembly
passed it on Wednesday. With the House nod, Uttarakhand
became the first state in the country to implement a Uniform Civil
Code, which presents common law for marriage, divorce,
inheritance of property, etc.
The UCC Bill, which will now become an Act is based on the draft
submitted by a high-level committee formed by the Uttarakhand
government under the chairmanship of retired Supreme Court
judge Justice Ranjana P Desai.
The implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand
comes months ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The reports have claimed that the Union
Government is planning to bring a similar law at the national level and BJP-ruled states like Gujarat and
Assam are already in the process of passing UCC law in their respective states.
Pakistan elec on: Final results give Imran Khan-backed
candidates lead
The final results in Pakistan's general election have put
independent candidates backed by jailed ex-PM Imran Khan's
PTI party in the lead.
Independents won 101 of the National Assembly seats. BBC
analysis shows 93 of them went to PTI-backed candidates.
That puts them ahead of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif's PMLN who
won 75 and it is unclear who will form a government.
As wrangling continues, independent candidates who did not
win have flooded courts with vote-rigging allegations.
Both the PTI, which was blocked from taking part in the
election, and Mr Sharif's PMLN say they want to form the next
government.
The result was a surprise as most observers had expected Mr Sharif's party - widely seen as having the
powerful military's backing - to win, given Mr Khan had been jailed on charges ranging from corruption to
having married illegally and his party was barred from the ballot sheet.