Gifts to daughters-in-law are tax-free, but income from these gifts is taxed to parents-in-law due to an outdated clubbing rule. This provi...

The Supreme Court ruled that tribal daughters in Scheduled Tribes are not governed by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and must follow custo...

The Chhattisgarh High Court ruled that a married daughter is not entitled to a share in her father's ancestral land if he died before 1956....

Gujarat's chief minister announced a five-member committee to draft a Uniform Civil Code. The committee will study the matter and submit a ...

Ahead of a two-phase Lok Sabha election in Manipur on April 19 and 26, the state’s calm exterior belies the unease brewing within. Less tha...

"National integrity, safety and security and fraternity are best preserved and maintained if we maintain the diversity of our country by pe...

“The Uniform Civil Code shall require constitutional amendments, in particular, Article 13(3)(a) of the Constitution relating the status of...

Even the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) exempts the Sixth Schedule areas and the Inner Line permit areas. Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Miz...

ET visited eight industrial hubs across India, spanning several sectors, to find out what businesses want.

While examining the issue of a single code, the panel will have to keep in mind issues such as the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.

It is aware of them and makes frequent references to the need for accelerating growth through raising consumer demand and increasing invest...

Jaitley presented his third budget which took on the fiscal and physical health of the nation by setting the fiscal deficit target at 3.5% ...

Article 244 governs the administration of Scheduled and Tribal areas excepting Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

On eve of India-US diplomatic encounter, nuclear industry lobby groups and major reactor suppliers to complain about how law on nuclear lia...

As sarkari types wage a war on drinking, we recall & celebrate a parliamentary speech by an MP no one remembers now. BH Khardekar had urged...

It is unfortunate that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has joined the ranks of those critical of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

Now that Jaswant Singh is firmly in the saddle, and has taken as well as initiated several measures, he was meeting the press. There's been...