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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
Mosque loudspeaker impedes yoga, puja, govt duties: UP Minister
Uttar Pradesh minister Anand Swaroop Shukla writes to Ballia district magistrate, asking volume be fixed according to High Court order
Pay five-months salary or we stop work: JNU sanitation workers
Members of the AICCTU condemned the college authorities for failing to pay employee dues as well as failing to provide them basic necessities such as identity cards
Gradual, unannounced but continuous dismantling of Constitutional mechanisms since 2014:Anuradha Bhasin
The Executive Editor of Kashmir Times delivered the 40th JP Memorial Lecture
Chhattisgarh: 5 police personnel killed, 14 injured in alleged Maoists attack
Victims were travelling in a bus Kadenar and Kanhargaon villages, and were hit by an improvised explosive device
RJD MLAs evicted, assaulted, as Bihar Assembly passes Special Police Bill
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BJP’s election manifesto in Assam promises “corrected” NRC, end of “Love Jihad”
The deeply communal content is all that there is in this ‘Sankalp Patra’ that is otherwise full of old promises that the government has failed to deliver upon in the last five years
Bom HC: Two petitions filed seeking probe into corruption allegations against Maha gov’t
Both petitions seeks independent probe into corruption allegations by Mumbai’s ex-top cop against the Home Minister
Martyrdom Day brings together Jawaans and Kisans
Farmer leaders thank young leaders and participants for supporting the country’s peasants by promising solidarity to the movement
30 Assam election candidates face serious criminal cases: ADR
The ADR reports for Assam Assembly Elections shows concerning number of candidates involved in criminal cases while nearly 21 percent of the analysed group were declared as crorepatis.
No Bharat Ratna for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Please!
Demands are often made to the government for posthumous conferment of India’s highest civilian honour upon Dr. Lohia
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