WAYANAD: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday emphasised that the primary struggle in the country today is to protect and preserve the Constitution. “The protection that we get, the greatness of our country, all emerged from the Constitution,” the Lok Sabha MP said while addressing a corner meeting in Mananthavady as part of campaign for…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on whether an accused is entitled to get at the pre-trial stage documents which are in possession of Enforcement Directorate but not relied upon by the agency in money laundering cases and questioned the agency on the justification for taking a “rigid approach” by denying such documents…
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No political party in power took this short step despite SC goadingNEW DELHI: When the Constitution was just a year-old, law minister B R Ambedkar had stoically met the charge that the Hindu Code Bill, 1951, was communal in nature as it aimed to codify the personal law of one religious community leaving aside the…
BENGALURU: Some state governors are doing things they shouldn’t and not doing things they should, Justice BV Nagarathna of Supreme Court said while delivering the keynote address at a National Law School of India (NLSIU) conference in Bengaluru Saturday.The SC judge highlighted the importance of governors maintaining neutrality, quoting Durgabai Deshmukh, a member of the…
NEW DELHI: The BJP launched a fresh attack on the Congress on the eve of the budget session in Parliament, claiming that the pocket-version of the Constitution frequently displayed by Rahul Gandhi and other leaders highlights the opposition party’s disrespect for the document.BJP MP Anurag Thakur asserted that if Rahul Gandhi studies this copy, he…
NEW DELHI: For the first time, Supreme Court will test the constitutional validity of immunity from criminal proceedings accorded to the President and governors.On Friday, it entertained the plea of an woman ex-employee of Kolkata Raj Bhavan who said the constitutional provision (Article 361) had prevented police from probing her charge of sexual harassment against…
NEW DELHI: “Bharat” and “India” will be used interchangeably in NCERT textbooks, aligning with the terminology in the country’s Constitution, according to Dinesh Prasad Saklani, director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).Saklani’s comments are significant following a recommendation from a high-level panel on the social science curriculum to replace “India” with…
NEW DELHI: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) will use “Bharat” and “India” interchangeably in its textbooks, aligning with the country’s Constitution, according to NCERT director Dinesh Prasad Saklani.This decision follows a recommendation from a high-level panel working on the social science curriculum that suggested replacing “India” with “Bharat” in school textbooks…
NEW DELHI: A day after Tamil Nadu chief minister claimed that INDIA bloc‘s ‘moral victory’ in the Lok Sabha polls prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bow down to the Constitution, BJP’s state president and firebrand leader K Annamalai on Sunday hit back , accusing the DMK of hypocrisy and “utter disregard for the Constitution,”…
