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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Topic: Constitution

The idea of a new Constitution is extremely dangerous. India doesn’t want dictatorship

This writer would like to make the case that the fact that our Constitution has an element of being a colonial legacy is not all that bad.

New book looks at India’s formative years post Independence

Published by Penguin India, ‘1947-1957, India: the Birth of a Republic’, will be released on 28 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Indians must rise like tsunami, uphold Constitutional morality–IIC Public Policy Debate Series

There were mentions of the violence in Manipur and Haryana’s Nuh, three proposed criminal laws and more at the first lecture of the ‘Public Policy Debate Series’ in Delhi.

Mayawati slams EAC-PM chair Debroy’s call for ‘new Constitution’ — ‘open breach of jurisdiction’

Taking to social media platform ‘X’, BSP chief says Constitution 'a guarantee of humanity and egality for the 140 crore poor, backward and neglected people' in the country.

UCC can strengthen country, but BJP raising it to cover up its failures, says Mayawati

BSP chief says UCC should be implemented with awareness & general consent, not by force. Later in the day, former NDA ally SBSP too endorsed a Uniform Civil Code.

Opposition is wrong in resisting UCC. It’s poor politics, runs against Constitution spirit

The whole point of reviving this proposal is to push the opposition into a photo-op with the conservative leadership. And the opposition is stepping into this trap.

Nehru’s amendment to the Constitution was a revolution. Made sedition an invalid law

Speaking at the launch of his book on freedom of speech, SC lawyer Rohan J Alva stressed that the reasonable restrictions in Article 19 (1)(a) is different from sedition.

‘Elements of marriage protected by Constitution’, says SC as it hears same-sex marriage pleas

Procreation is not a condition for social acceptance of marriage or its legal validity, says Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud while hearing a batch of petitions.

As milestone Kesavananda Bharati judgment completes 50 years, SC starts one-stop webpage to learn all about it

Kesavananda Bharati judgment postulated the basic structure doctrine. It held that certain fundamental features of the Constitution, such as democracy, can’t be amended by Parliament. 

The events that led up to Indian courts declaring sedition law ‘unconstitutional’ in 1950

In 'A Constitution to Keep', Rohan J Alva explores why, under the Constitution, ‘sedition’ as defined in Section 124A is unrelated to 'public order'.

On Camera

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.