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Delimitation & women reservation bill: Southern states backs 50% seat hike, seeks share status quoWith the introduction of the two bills - one on delimitation and another an amendment bill for delinking implementation of women's reservat...
No plan to remove 'socialist', 'secular' from Constitution: Govt informs Rajya SabhaResponding to a question by RS MP Ramji Lal Suman, the Union Minister said in a written reply in the upper house on Thursday that "the gove...
Siddaramaiah slams Hosabale’s comments, says Congress will not allow rewriting of ConstitutionChief Minister Siddaramaiah has strongly criticized the RSS for questioning the inclusion of "socialist" and "secularism" in the Constituti...
Ordinance raj during Emergency: 48, including 5 to amend MISA, promulgatedDuring the Emergency in India, the Indira Gandhi government issued numerous ordinances, including amendments to the MISA, granting broad de...
Adding more fuel to the polarisation fireThe Karnataka assembly recently passed a bill introducing a controversial 4% reservation for Muslims in public contracts, sparking a signif...
BJP MPs did not mention Indira herself voted to remove many provisions of 42nd Amendment: Jairam RameshCongress MP Jairam Ramesh criticized Prime Minister Modi and his colleagues for omitting key facts during a parliamentary debate on the 42n...
SC in Preamble's socialist, secular case: Can't say what Parliament did in emergency all nullityThe Supreme Court of India is deliberating on petitions challenging the inclusion of "socialist" and "secular" in the Constitution's Preamb...
Secularism held to be part of basic structure of constitution: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court reviewed petitions challenging the inclusion of 'socialist' and 'secular' in the Indian Constitution's Preamble. Petition...
SC to hear Subramanian Swamy's plea in April to delete 'secular' & 'socialist' from the preambleSwamy in his petition had said that the two words, inserted in the Preamble through the 42nd Constitution Amendment Act of 1976 during the ...
Can Preamble of Constitution be amended without altering the date? asks SCA bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta posed the question to former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy and lawyer Vishnu Shanka...
Asian Champions Trophy 2023: Indian hockey team beat Malaysia 5-0Hosts India returned to winning ways with a 5-0 victory over Malaysia in their Asian Champions Trophy match here on Sunday. The city's Kart...
'Anti-national' inserted in Constitution in 1976, removed a year later: GovernmentOwaisi also asked whether the Supreme Court has prescribed any guidelines to deal with crimes relating to 'anti-national' activity. "The wo...
Shiv Sena backs Rajnath Singh, says Congress indulging in 'dirty politics'The party said that the dalit population has over the years realised that Congress has used the 'divide-and-rule formula' to serve its "sel...
Let land bill be passed first, amendments may be made later: Rajnath Singh to oppositionHe said the welfare of farmers and development of villages were very much necessary for the country as without comprehensive development of...
I&B ministry directed to use image of 'amended' Preamble onlyRow had erupted over Republic Day ad carrying picture of Preamble to Constitution as it appeared before 42nd Amendment, without words 'secu...
Only 'secular' Preamble in government adsThis comes on the back of a row over the exclusion of the words "secular'' and "socialist'' in the Preamble which was used in R-Day adverti...
Poke Me: The sham and dangerous ‘secular debate’The Union Minister for Telecommunications has said that “we should have a debate” on whether ‘secularism’ should stay in the Preamble.