Prayagraj: Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, a judge of the Allahabad High Court, on Sunday said that the objective of the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is to promote social harmony and secularism by ensuring uniformity of laws. "The main objective of UCC is to promote social harmony, gender equality and secularism by eliminating unequal legal systems based on different religions and communities. The goal of this code is to ensure uniformity of laws not only between communities but also within a community," said Justice Yadav while addressing the provincial convention of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad 's legal cell , Kashi province and the high court unit, organized at the library hall of the high court. Justice Yadav said that the UCC, which is based on the principles of equality, justice and secularism, was an issue of debate in India for a long time. UCC refers to a common law that applies to all religious communities in personal matters such as marriage, inheritance, divorce, adoption, etc. It aims to replace various personal laws that currently govern personal matters within different religious communities. National co-convener of VHP's legal cell Abhishek Atrey emphasized the need to remain united to protect identity. He also spoke on the Waqf Amendment Act and pointed out incidents in Bangladesh. The VHP workshop was held in four sessions. The inaugural session was presided over by govt advocate at high court AK Sand. Regional convenor, legal cell, Brijendra Singh presented the outline of the workshop. Senior high court advocate and former president of high court bar association VP Srivastava spoke on religious conversions. Earlier, Arvind Kumar Mishra, a high court lawyer and convener of the legal cell, Kashi province, welcomed the guests. Co-conveners of VHP's legal cell (Kashi province) Brajesh Singh and Om Prakash Singh, co-conveners Akhilesh Shukla, Kavita Tomar, Harbans Singh, Shiv Gopal Singh, Ajay Singh, Gaurav Dwivedi and Manish Dwivedi were present on the occasion. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Junior Kyla Oldacre matched her career best with 21 points on near perfect shooting, and No. 5 Texas routed Texas Rio Grande Valley 94-35 on Sunday. Oldacre, a 6-foot-6 backup center, converted all six of her field goal attempts and 9 of 10 free throws. She also had seven rebounds and three of the Longhorns' 21 steals. Madison Booker had 14 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals for Texas (13-1). Starting center Taylor Jones had 11 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Kade Hackerott led Texas Rio Grande Valley (6-7) with seven points. The Vaqueros shot 27% from the field and committed 37 turnovers. Texas converted the turnovers into 47 points. Texas Rio Grande Valley: The Vaqueros average 16 turnovers a game but matched that by midway through the second quarter. They committed 13 while falling behind 24-5 after the first quarter. Texas: Aaliyah Moore's physical health is something to watch. Moore, a starting power forward, missed her first game this season on Sunday while resting because of tendinitis in her right knee. Moore played with that condition last season but it has been a struggle for her. Texas has only two centers and two power forwards on its roster. After Texas Rio Grande Valley sliced a 19-point deficit to 10 with less than four minutes remaining in the second quarter, Texas finished the half with a 13-1 push, eight from Oldacre, during the final 2:36. The Longhorns outscored the Vaqueros 54-12 in the paint and it could have been worse. The Longhorns missed 12 layups. Texas Rio Grande Valley is at Southeastern Louisiana on Thursday, and Texas is at No. 9 Oklahoma on Thursday. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball

Rams don't dominate, but they're rolling toward the playoffs with superb complementary footballFew unsolved crimes have gripped the country quite like this one, and it appears a recent documentary — and new claims — on it has sparked interest anew. was a 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant who was found dead in December 1996. She died in her Boulder, Colorado, home, per . The case captured the national media then and now, and that attention was largely focused on Ramsey’s family. At various points, Ramsey’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, as well as her brother, Burke Ramsey, were all suspected of the crime and faced vociferous criticism. All three were eventually cleared as suspects in 2008. (Patsy’s name was cleared posthumously, as she passed away in 2006.) But that still obviously leaves the question: Who committed the heinous crime? It’s been a for years now, so it came as little surprise when Netflix announced a multi-part docu-series about the unsolved murder, and how, as noted, its director wanted to help clear the names of the Ramsey family members who’d been dragged through the mud. “I want to give that family a measure of justice,” Joe Berlinger, director of “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey,” told the Reporter. Now, Berlinger appears to be taking that want to another level, as he has found himself embroiled in a war of words with the Boulder Police Department. “The killing of JonBenét was an unspeakable crime, and this tragedy has never left our hearts,” Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn the Reporter via statement. After stating that the “investigation will always be a priority,” Redfearn also defended his own. “The assertion that there is viable evidence and leads we are not pursuing — to include DNA testing — is completely false,” he added. Berlinger responded to the police in biting fashion, through the Reporter. “While the Boulder Police Department’s 28-year-track record does not inspire confidence, we applaud any concrete effort they are taking to solve this horrible crime,” Berlinger retorted. “Neither we nor the Ramsey family said BPD is currently ignoring viable evidence and leads. ... We said that we just don’t know if the Boulder Police Department is pursuing viable evidence or leads because they have not given any concrete information to the family.” And in a shocking claim, Berlinger further alleged that BPD has been noticeably silent despite repeated claims of wanting to help the Ramsey family. “In fact, according to the family, BPD told the Ramsey’s almost two years ago that they were going to relaunch the investigation from the ‘ground-up’ using ‘best practices’ and bring in new investigators with ‘fresh eyes.’ “According to our information, the family was also told that BPD would provide regular updates and keep them informed on all developments. To date, the Ramsey family says it has not received any meaningful updates.” Furthermore, Berlinger and the Ramsey family think the actual answer is within reach — if only the BPD weren’t seemingly sitting on their hands. “We (the filmmaking team) and the Ramsey family believe that new DNA testing can solve this crime due to the incredible advancements in DNA technology since 1997,” Berlinger wrote. “However, to our knowledge, BPD has not met with Bode Technology, Parabon Nanolabs or Othram. “Othram is now used routinely by other law enforcement agencies due to its amazing cold case track record, including recently solving the 1995 Morgan Nick kidnapping cold case with state-of-the-art DNA technology.” All three episodes of “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” are currently streaming on Netflix. We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. .

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ATLANTA — On Jan. 20, 1981, after suffering a landslide defeat, former President Jimmy Carter returned home to rural Plains to what he called “an altogether new, unwanted, and potentially empty life.” By 1982, he had such a low profile that Time magazine called him “virtually a non-person, a president who never was.” But Carter would rewrite his legacy by turning to his implacable faith. It was, to him, an enduring source of comfort and inspiration, continuously helping guide him even through the most stunning setbacks — from losing elections to marital woes, an interminable hostage crisis in Iran and health crises in later life. His hometown of Plains wasn’t just Carter’s childhood home — it was his spiritual center. Upon his return after his presidential defeat, Carter, a third-generation Baptist, maintained his lifetime habit — teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church. He made a cross that stood for years above the altar in his wood shop. As an active member, he took his turn cutting the church’s grass. And he applied his love-your-neighbor ethic to his work at the Carter Center. “He is not some pie-in-the-sky Christian. He is a down-to-earth Christian who sees the everyday challenges and applies his faith to practical problems,” said civil rights hero the Rev. Joseph Lowery in an October 2010 interview. “There is no question his commitment to peace is based on faith. His commitment to help the poor, his commitment to housing, you can attribute that to his faith. It was Christ’s challenge to serve the poor and he’s done that. I admire him for that.” In his 1996 book “Living Faith,” Carter wrote openly about problems in his marriage. Getting involved in the church in Plains helped him and his wife work though communication woes. “We found we could communicate through discussions of our religious faith better than we could without it,” he said. When they had problems in their marriage, they would kneel together, pray to God and both would tell their sides of the story. It was as if they used God as the ultimate marriage counselor, according to E. Stanly Godbold, a Carter historian and author of the book, “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924 to 1974.” Faith played a role in 1978 when Carter held peace meetings between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Carter believed the common thread of religion helped bring the two sides together. “At Camp David, for instance, this is one of the main themes of Anwar Sadat, we had so much in common worshipping the same God that we could form a common foundation for peace,” Carter told the AJC in a 1996 interview. Break with Southern Baptists When Carter was running for president, he was an appealing candidate to Southern Baptists and other evangelicals — a small-town guy in the Bible belt, still married to the same woman and the first U.S. presidential candidate who self-identified as a born-again Christian. That terminology was new for swaths of America and resulted in news articles across the nation examining and explaining, often poorly, conservative Christian beliefs. It was also an early sign of the development of the political-religious organizations such as the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority that followed. The evangelical Christian vote helped elect Carter. But in just four years, the most famous face of the Baptist religion was at odds with the increasingly conservative-leaning Southern Baptist Convention. The nation’s largest Protestant denomination also was undergoing its own cultural changes. Through the 1980s, theologically and politically conservative leaders rallied voting members of the convention to sweep out moderates from leadership roles in churches, seminaries and colleges over their theological “liberalism.” Carter’s views on hot-button issues such as supporting women as leaders in the church made him increasingly unpopular among many Southern Baptists and other evangelicals. He later showed support for civil unions, and by 2018 for marriage of same sex couples. But in 1979, many of the conservatives who voted for him the first time deserted him for Ronald Reagan. In 2000, Carter severed ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, saying parts of its “increasingly rigid” doctrines violated the “basic premises of my Christian faith.” Carter went on to play a role in helping start an alternate association for progressive evangelical Black and white churches whose memberships and leaders were more moderate in their thinking and actions, such as installing women into pulpits and key church roles, and focusing on goals such as fighting poverty, and advocating for the environment and social causes. Carter used his weight to get the New Baptist Covenant and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship off the ground. In 2008, he helped bring together 20,000 Baptists representing more than 20 million church members for an Atlanta event designed to bury differences and work together. The tension was deep. The Southern Baptist Convention’s news service, Baptist Press, did not carry a news article about Carter winning the Nobel Peace Prize. “Carter didn’t change,” said Nancy T. Ammerman, a sociologist of religion at Boston University and author of “Baptist Battles.” “The definition of what it meant to be Southern and Baptist changed.” “One of the characteristics of being Baptist is this that you have to make decisions about how your life is going to go,” said Ammerman. “No priest can do it for you. There’s this deep-seated notion of individual freedom and individual accountability, and (that) gave him this fierce ability to be independent that has shaped his personality and career and has given him a strong commitment to democracy, various human rights issues and religious liberty.” An abiding faith Carter’s faith can be traced back to his childhood, a time when Sunday was devoted to church and biblical teachings. In his hometown of Plains, no stores were open on Sunday. Going to a movie theater or even playing cards on Sunday was out of the question. That devotion never faded. Well into his 90s, he was behind the pulpit teaching multiple Sundays every year to classes filled with people from around the nation and world who would drop in to hear the former president. One Sunday, Carter counted 28 nations represented in the pews. He would talk about God and loving your enemies, and then sprinkle stories of traveling around the globe, building houses and eradicating disease. He and Rosalynn would pose for pictures with visitors at the little church, a quintessential Jimmy Carter experience. Even as he contemplated his demise, he looked to his faith for guidance. In “Living Faith,” he wrote: “We can face death with fear, anguish, self-torment and unnecessary distress among those around us. Or, through faith and the promises of God, we can confront the inevitable with courage, equanimity, good humor and peace. Our last few days or months can be spent in a challenging and exhilarating way, seeking to repair relationships and to leave a good or even noble legacy, in an atmosphere of harmony and love.” ©2024 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Visit at ajc.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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