Showing posts with label Indian Constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian Constitution. Show all posts
Friday, April 28, 2023

Back to base: Editorial on assault to basic structure of the Constitution

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  The government’s attitudes, not always obviously articulated but quietly nurtured, are reflected in daily life, from cow vigilantism to th...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

People’s document

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  “ Manavta ki jaan hai, Samata pehchan hai, Bharat ki shaan hai, Samvidhan hai vo, Bharat ka Samvidhan hai   (The Constitution is the essen...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

What is delegated legislation

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  In   upholding the Centre’s 2016 decision on demonetisation , one of the key questions to decide for the Supreme Court was whether Parliam...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Anti-hate speech law gains traction; where to draw the line is contentious

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  The Nupur Sharma episode, which recently brought the country to a boil, and a Delhi High Court judge’s observations on that, threw up many...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Why does Rajya Sabha have ‘nominated’ MPs, and who gets nominated?

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  The government on Wednesday (July 6) nominated musician Ilaiyaraaja, track-and-field icon PT Usha, Telugu screenwriter V Vijayendra Prasad...
Thursday, July 07, 2022

How the Vice President of India is elected, what the Constitution says about the post

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  The Election Commission of India on Tuesday (July 5) issued the   notification for the election   of the Vice President of India. The term...
Friday, December 03, 2021

Remember how the Constitution was brought into being

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  G. N. Devy writes: Tribal communities, workers, peasants, students and the common people braved imprisonment or bullets and fought for the...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Reconsider the Seventh Schedule

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  A thorough legislative appraisal of the Seventh Schedule to keep pace with changing fiscal priorities is overdue. An expansion of the Conc...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

How the cow came to be debated in Constituent Assembly and why Article 48 was added to Constitution

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  On November 16, 1949, as the Indian Constituent Assembly was nearing its end, it made room for the inclusion of a clause in the Directive ...