Countering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s allegation on April 24 that the Congress governments meted out a “step-motherly” treatment to villages, the Congress reminded him and the nation that it was a Congress government that gave constitutional status to panchayats by way of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment. Speaking on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day in Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Modi …
Uzbekistan has announced a month-long state of emergency in an autonomous republic where rare protests forced President Shavkat Mirziyoyev into a reversal on certain constitutional reforms. President Mirziyoyev’s press secretary Sherzod Asadov wrote on Telegram on Saturday that the state of emergency in the Republic of Karakalpakstan would run from just after midnight on Sunday to August 2. A rally …
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of various provisions of the Waqf Act, 1995.Filed by six petitioners on behalf of Advocates Hari Shankar Jain & Vishnu Shankar Jain, the petition contends that stipulated provisions of the Act grant special status to Waqf properties while no such safeguard exists for Trusts, Mutts, Akharas &. …
