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PML-N top brass decides Nawaz Sharif to continue as PM
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 9 (ANI): The top Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership have decided that Nawaz Sharif will continue to role as the Prime Minister of the country and the party would use all the legal and constitutional options if needed, after submission of the Supreme Co
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KK Venugopal takes over as next Attorney General of India
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July. 3 (ANI): Senior lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and constitutional expert K.K. Venugopal on Monday officially took over as the new Attorney General of India, replacing Mukul Rohatgi.
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Meira Kumar has already accepted her defeat: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru/ New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Responding to Opposition's Presidential candidate Meira Kumar assertion that she was not a "scapegoat" in the upcoming election to the country's top constitutional post as she was fighting for an ideology, the Bharatiya Janata P
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K.K. Venugopal replaces Mukul Rohatgi as Attorney General
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Senior lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and constitutional expert K.K. Venugopal has been appointed as a new 15th Attorney General replacing Mukul Rohatgi.
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Euro MPs call for suspension of Turkey accession talks
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 20 (ANI): The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs have adopted a resolution urging Brussels to formally suspend EU accession negotiations with Turkey, due to constitutional change that grants Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with sweeping pow
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Nepal PM hints at postponing polls if it helps end deadlock
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 14 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has hinted at postponing the polls if it helps in ending the constitutional deadlock.
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'Unprecedented Constitutional violations': Two attorneys general
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], June. 13 (ANI): An unprecedented lawsuit aimed at Donald Trump alleges that the President's ties to the business empire that he built as a private citizen, violates anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution.
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Taiwan's top court paves way to legalise same-sex marriage
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], May 25 (ANI): In an historic decision, the constitutional court in Taiwan, which is country's top most court, has ruled that current law defining marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman was 'unconstitutional', thus paving way for the first same-sex m
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Triple talaq row: Cannot abolish 'Islamic process', says cleric
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi/Kanpur [India], May 13 (ANI): Criticising senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid's 'objectionable' statement on the Islamic divorce system of triple talaq being constitutionally unjustifiable, Muslim cleric Maulana Sajid Rashidi said it cannot be abolished, as it is
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Triple Talaq cannot get Constitutional validity: Salman Khurshid
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid who is the amicus curiae in the ongoing Triple Talaq hearings, said before the Supreme Court that the controversial Islamic divorce system cannot be justified whatsoever.
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Triple Talaq: Ahead of SC hearing, Centre urges for 'reform'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): A day after the Allahabad High Court condemned the controversial practice of Triple Talaq while terming it a violation of women's rights, the Centre on Wednesday called for reform while saying that constitutional law is above all.
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AIMPLB has no religious and constitutional relevance: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Retorting to the claims of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) in connection with the practice of triple talaq, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday asserted that the nation does not need such a law board which has no religious or constitutional
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