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No-confidence motion: PM calls for constructive, disruption-free debate
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Hours before the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government will face a no-confidence motion moved by former ally the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged fellow MPs to "rise to the occasion and ensure a constructive, comprehe
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'Registration numbers needed for vehicles of President, VP'
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ruled that vehicles of India's top constitutional authorities will need to have registration numbers.
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PM Modi hopes for a fruitful monsoon session
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): Ahead of the first day of Monsoon Session of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all the political leaders to allow the session function smoothly.
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Cow vigilantism: SC bats for new law
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Condemning increased instances of violence due to cow vigilantism and lynching across the country, the Supreme Court on Tuesday urged Parliament to consider a new law to prevent such incidents, and underscored that violence can't be allowed in the name of vi
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Cow vigilantism: No mobocracy can be allowed, says petitioner
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Hours after Supreme Court gave its verdict on pleas seeking directions to formulate guidelines to curb cow vigilantism, the petitioner in violence by vigilante groups case Tehseen Poonawalla on Tuesday said that no mobocracy can be allowed.
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SC urges Parliament to frame law against lynching
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Parliament to see whether a new law can be framed to combat the menace of cow vigilantism.
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Kolkata court summons Tharoor over 'Hindu-Pakistan' remark
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 14 (ANI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was on Saturday summoned by a Kolkata Court over his controversial 'Hindu-Pakistan' remark.
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Govt affidavit solely about privacy: Swamy on Section 377
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): A day after the Centre put the onus on Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality of Section 377, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy clarified that the government wanted the court to only decide if homosexual activities in private wo
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Rajya Sabha members can speak in 22 scheduled languages
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jul 11 (ANI): From the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament, Rajya Sabha members can speak in any of the 22 languages listed in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution.
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SC to decide constitutional validity of Section 377
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): The Centre will leave the matter of the constitutionality of Section 377 to be decided by the Supreme Court.
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Section 377 arbitrary, unconstitutional: lawyer Menaka Guruswamy
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): As the Constitution Bench of Supreme Court continues to hear the pleas seeking scrapping of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalises homosexuality, lawyer for one of the petitioners Menaka Guruswamy on Wednesday said that the section
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SC hearing on Section 377 to continue today
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday will continue hearing a batch of petitions against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which criminalises homosexual activities.
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