Rahul Gandhi is on a 6-day visit to the US, during which he will be spending time in Silicon Valley, Washington DC and New York meeting the Indian diaspora.
Another concern voiced by Opposition parties is that the exercise sees redrawing of Assembly & Lok Sabha constituencies using the 2001 and not the 2011 Census figures.
Bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul & A.S. Oka held Monday that there was nothing 'illegal' about delimitation exercise to redraw legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in J&K.
EC has begun process of delimitation of assembly and LS constituencies in Assam on basis of 2001 Census. Previous exercise was undertaken in state in 1976 on basis of 1971 Census.
Last population-based delimitation was done in 1971 & there's a freeze until 1st census after 2026. As debate intensifies, a 2019 paper sheds light on what such an exercise could mean.
Around 50 wards, including 10 new ones, are to be named after Hindu gods, freedom fighters & other historic personalities. BJP says names kept 'keeping emotions of public' in mind.
The Delimitation Commission’s mapping of electoral constituencies for the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has reopened the communal wounds of the Dogra century.
The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.
With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.
This deployment by the Indian Navy Friday is a stark contrast to the submarine history of the last two decades that has seen the arm hit by dwindling strength, accidents and write-offs.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
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