New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Union Minister of State under the Ministry of Defence, Ajay Bhatt on Tuesday lauded the efforts of the parliamentarians for passing the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Lok Sabha and said that and a historic bill
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar has said that the constitution amendment bill passed by Lok Sabha on Tuesday will empower states to prepare and maintain their own list of socially and educationally backward classes (SEBCs) and provi
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): The debate on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021 saw wide participation with many opposition members raising demands for caste-based census and removing the 50 per cent ceiling on reservation.
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): The Census 2021 exercise, when carried out, will enumerate only those SCs and STs that were notified through the constitutional orders of 1950, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai informed Parliament on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], August 9 (ANI): The Lok Sabha on Monday passed three bills without discussion -- the Limited Liability Partnership (Amendment) Bill, 2021, the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2021, and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amend
New Delhi [India], August 9 (ANI): Amid the ruckus by the Opposition, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr Virendra Kumar introduced the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Lok Sabha on Monday, proposed to give back power to states to
New Delhi [India], August 9 (ANI): Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said that all Opposition parties will support The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021 being introduced in Parliament today to give back power to States to identify s
New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): A Petition has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking to strike down of Section 44(1)(c) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 stating it manifests arbitrary, unreasonable and is violative of the petitioner's rights under Articles 14,19 and 21
New Delhi, [India], August 5 (ANI): On the day of the second anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, Communist Party of India's Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, Binoy Viswam on Thursday said that the Article should be reintroduced and the special status of Jammu
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 28 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has distorted the face of Jammu and Kashmir by destroying the Constitution and said that the abrogation of Article
New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Tuesday, in a written reply to Lok Sabha over the inclusion of Khasi language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, said that it is difficult to fix any criteria for languages, whether to distinguish
New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): Amid the border tensions between Assam and Mizoram that took several lives, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday demanded an enquiry and said the incident reflects a failure of the constitutional machinery of the states.