The Constitution is a 'living document', it requires deliberate efforts to keep its principles relevant. We can't afford complacency; democratic freedoms, once lost, are difficult to recover.
The programme was organised at Samvidhan Sadan on occasion of 75th Constitution Day. Digital version released in Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Bodo, Kashmiri, Telugu, Odia, Assamese.
At joint sitting of Parliament, the Vice President also invoked Ambedkar, who had questioned whether Indians would place the country 'above their creed' or vice versa.
At Constitution Day event, the ex-officio RS chairman says Parliament ‘reflective of will of people’ & incursion into its legislative domain amounts to ‘constitutional aberration’.
Addressing Constitution Day celebrations organised by SC, she said 'more varied representation of India’s unique diversity on bench and bar helps serve cause of justice better'.
On 25 November 1949, Dr BR Ambedkar delivered his last speech to the Constituent Assembly, which formally adopted India’s Constitution the following day. Ambedkar’s speech, outlining three warnings for an independent India, holds importance even today.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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