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U'khand cabinet grants final nod to UCC rules; implementation on R-Day
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|January 21, 2025
The Uttarakhand Cabinet has granted its final nod to the draft rules of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
This has cleared the deck for likely implementation of the UCC on January 26.
This story is from the January 21, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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