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,”…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday emphasised the crucial role that Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar, must play in safeguarding the Constitution and democracy. Both leaders have extended their support to the BJP-led NDA government, which has secured its third consecutive term in…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge termed the results a mandate against PM Modi and a “very big and damaging political and moral defeat” for him and BJP as “he sought votes in his own name everywhere he went”. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said, “the main message in this election is that people have unanimously…
NEW DELHI: Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi addressed a press conference here on Tuesday evening in the presence of Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi. “We have always said that this was a fight between Modi versus the people. We humbly accept the people’s mandate,” Kharge said. He described the gains made by INDIA bloc…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC on Friday struck down Haryana govt’s policy of assigning additional marks based on socio-economic criteria while evaluating job aspirants, terming the system a violation of constitutional safeguards against discrimination.The division bench of Justices Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Sudeepti Sharma was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the criteria entitling a…
