Constitution

Ensuring justice reach all priority of govt: PM Modi

Modi keeps up attack on Cong on issue of Article 370

2:26 pm October 18, 2019

Gohana (Sonipat): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at the Congress on the issue of Article 370, saying parties like it can neither understand sentiments of people nor respect sacrifices made by brave jawans. Addressing a rally here, his fourth one for the October 21 polls, Modi while referring to abrogation of Article […]

Pak’s parliament blocks bill allowing non-Muslims to become PM, Prez

12:44 pm October 4, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan’s parliament has blocked a bill seeking an amendment in the Constitution to allow non-Muslims to become Prime Minister and President of the country. Dr Naveed Aamir Jeeva, a Christian lawmaker from the Pakistan Peoples Party, wanted to move a bill on Wednesday to amend article 41 and 91 of the constitution to allow […]

Differences should not become disputes: Jaishankar tells China on Kashmir

3:32 pm August 12, 2019

Beijing: India on Monday told China that it is important to ensure that any bilateral differences should not become disputes, as Beijing said it is “very closely” following the Indo-Pak tensions over Kashmir and its “ramifications” and asked New Delhi to play a “constructive role” for regional peace and stability. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, […]

Ambedkar’s depiction in cartoons is ‘No Laughing Matter’

3:18 pm August 4, 2019

New Delhi: A cartoon by K Shankar Pillai in 1949 showed Jawaharlal Nehru whipping a snail-borne Bhimrao Ambedkar, alluding to the perceived slow pace of framing the Constitution. While it didn’t stir a controversy back then, it did so in 2012 when the cartoon was included in a school textbook causing an uproar in the […]

Congress is not worthy of an alliance: H D Kumaraswamy

Resign and go home, BJP tells Kumaraswamy

2:38 pm July 22, 2019

Bengaluru: The BJP Monday asked Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy “to resign and go” if he has faith in the Constitution and people of the state, as the confidence motion moved by him in the Assembly dragged on for the third day. The BJP said Kumaraswamy himself moved the confidence motion but the trust […]