Union Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, which seeks to remove central & state ministers with chargesheet against them.
At the same time, the bills say that nothing can prevent them from being subsequently appointed as prime minister, chief minister or ministers on their release from custody.
This was after Centre, through Rashtrapati Bhavan, sought review of SC’s 8 April ruling in which it held that governors cannot sit over bills passed by state legislatures.
Earlier this week, SC set timelines for Governors to decide on state bills in its ruling in TN govt's case against Governor RN Ravi. The timeframe for President comes in the same order.
In additional affidavit filed in top court, Kerala chief secretary gives details on how Arif Khan-Pinarayi Vijayan tussle played out. SC has sought reply from Centre, Raj Bhavan.
Document detailing each bill sent to Governor R. N. Ravi’s office was placed before CJI-led bench hearing Tamil Nadu govt’s petition accusing Ravi of sitting on bills passed by assembly.
Tamil Nadu assembly has passed a formal resolution urging the Union govt and President Droupadi Murmu to fix a time limit for 'governors to give assent to bills passed by legislatures'.
Vivek Rae committee highlighted the deficiencies that persist even today: Fragmented authority, weak accountability, and the absence of dedicated acquisition cadres.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
In a chat with ThePrint newsroom, French Ambassador Thierry Mathou indicated talks are on between French firm Safran & Indian govt for joint design & manufacture of AMCA engine.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
Quite funny. When the then smuggler god father Haji Mastan wanted to stand for elections to the parliament from Mumbai, ruling Congress was alarmed. Until then they were happy to get Mastan’s money for the party and enjoy his hospitality. But when the ace smuggler wanted to sit with them in the parliament, they passed the COFEPOSA Act (1974) in record time. Recently, the Act was invoked against Ramya Rao.
Similarly, the Act that is being presented in the parliament appears to alarm many sitting crooks in the parliament.
When something has been amended 130 times, it suggests poor quality of the original. I would like to see a new capitalist constitution for the Capitalist Republic of India.
Quite funny. When the then smuggler god father Haji Mastan wanted to stand for elections to the parliament from Mumbai, ruling Congress was alarmed. Until then they were happy to get Mastan’s money for the party and enjoy his hospitality. But when the ace smuggler wanted to sit with them in the parliament, they passed the COFEPOSA Act (1974) in record time. Recently, the Act was invoked against Ramya Rao.
Similarly, the Act that is being presented in the parliament appears to alarm many sitting crooks in the parliament.
When something has been amended 130 times, it suggests poor quality of the original. I would like to see a new capitalist constitution for the Capitalist Republic of India.