The name ‘Bharat’ wasn’t there in the first draft of India’s Constitution introduced by the chairman of the drafting committee, BR Ambedkar, on November 4, 1948. Although some members flagged the omission of a native name, the debate on this took place almost a year later when the work on ...
A five-judge Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai and Surya Kant on Tuesday ordered the conclusion of arguments on scrapping Article 370 and bifurcating J&K into two UTs in 2019 after hearing rejoinders from petitioners' counsel Kapil ...
The UK is working to help India land a joint communique at the Delhi summit, but reaching a consensus would be difficult, said British high commissioner Alex Ellis, while citing that the 2022 G20 Bali Declaration, which was issued after a last-minute consensus on the Ukraine war, was not an ...
This weekend, 20 specially trained security members will be on duty at the G20 venues. Karan, Google, Zorro and their colleagues will be equipped with specialised gear such as night vision glasses, cutely called doggles, even walkie talkies. And every time they sniff out hidden explosives or neutralise hostage takers, ...
President Droupadi Murmu’s invite to G20 delegates for a dinner along with an official communication identifying Narendra Modi as the “Prime Minister of Bharat” sparked speculation on whether the government was moving to drop “India” as the country's name.
Holding that governments cannot resort to preventive detention as a “tool for enforcement of law and order”, the Supreme Court has ruled that a habitual offender cannot be put under detention because of his “habituality” of committing offences but only when he is seen as having the potential to cause ...