A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna & R Mahadevan asked govt to respond to the PIL on women's reservation law without waiting for the conduct of a fresh delimitation exercise.
Former RBI governor Duvvuri Subbarao writes in FT about how southern states may face political & economic consequences of their successful population control.
NDA ally Chandrababu Naidu’s stance, as told to ThePrint, diminishes possibility of population-based redrawing of Lok Sabha constituencies—a sore issue for southern states.
Up until 1976, seats in the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, and state assemblies were reallocated to maintain nearly equal population representation. But the 42nd Amendment froze the number of seats until the 2001 Census.
On 22 December 1952, during a debate on the Delimitation Commission Bill in Rajya Sabha, legislator and freedom fighter K Rama Rao criticised India's electoral representation structure and called for deeper reforms.
‘This delimitation issue has stirred strong emotions in the South. You have MK Stalin telling people to make more babies’, said political commentator Neerja Chowdhury at the Delhi launch of Ravi K Mishra’s new book, 'Demography, Representation, Delimitation'.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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