The bill allows the removal of the PM, CMs, or other ministers if arrested for serious offences. A Joint Parliamentary Committee will examine it, including 2 more similar bills.
Socialism and secularism are obviously ideas that BJP leaders are ready to neither gulp down nor spit out. That explains the party’s rather clumsy attempt to come up with its own versions.
Both nations crafted their First Amendments as defining moments, while America’s was a shield for individual liberty, India’s became a tool for social justice.
On Wednesday, Union Cabinet approved ‘one nation, one election’ proposal, accepting recommendations of report by high-level committee led by former President Kovind, submitted on 15 March.
The opposition’s debate over the Constitution (First Amendment) Bill in 1951 was a far cry from the kind of brawling that led to 12 RS members being suspended from Parliament.
In 1978, Parliament passed a constitutional amendment to prevent abuse of provision for preventive detention. Group of 100 ex-civil servants says delay in enforcement 'unconscionable'.
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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