Kathmandu: Three parties quit Nepal's Maoist-led government on Monday as the Himalayan republic slipped deeper into crisis after the prime minister called elections following the failure to agree on a new constitution aimed at ending years of instability. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has called for November 22 elections to resolve the constitutional impasse, sparking a backlash from politicians and Nepalis who have seen the country lurch from one crisis to...
10:55 AM, May 29, 2012
Kathmandu: Nepal's warring political parties said on Sunday they had failed to narrow their differences sufficiently to agree on a new constitution for the Himalayan republic before a midnight deadline, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil. A new constitution was widely seen as crucial to ending the instability that has plagued Nepal since the end of a Maoist-led civil war in 2006 and subsequent overthrow of the monarchy, but...
07:25 AM, May 28, 2012
"Read the Constitution of India with IBNLive" seeks to bring us close to the Constitution that governs us. The Indian Constitution is a living and dynamic document and we, the people of India, need to be aware of our rights and duties as citizens and to hold the government that we elect to its responsibility as enshrined in the Constitution. It is precisely because the Indian Constitution is a social...
12:10 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday passed an amendment to its constitution which will now enable party president Nitin Gadkari's term to be extended by another three years. The amendment was brought by former party president Rajnath Singh, and seconded by another former president M Venkaiah Naidu. Announcing the amendment, party's general secretary JP Nadda said it will also enable extending the tenure of district and state presidents...
01:14 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: An amendment to the Constitution is being drafted to enable the exchange of 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves in the Indian territory, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has said. "Government is committed to the earliest implementation of the Protocol and Land Boundary Agreement (between the two countries) that would result in exchange of enclaves," he said in a letter to CPI leader Prabodh Panda....
04:59 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is known to be fluent in Tamil and English, stunned the Lok Sabha on Thursday when he addressed the House in Bhojpuri, receiving praise from Speaker Meira Kumar, who comes from Bihar, for his effort. Chidambaram was replying to a calling attention motion on the need to include Bhojpuri, the native tongue of Bihar, in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution to...
03:01 PM, May 17, 2012
As citizens of India, we all have certain duties, rights and so does the government that governs us. It is all enshrined in the Constitution of India, a document with which our relationship is remote if not virtually non-existent. Many of us study it in a mechanical way in the high school and college years but the contents rarely sink in. "Read the Constitution of India with IBNLive" seeks to...
09:16 AM, May 15, 2012
Dalit MPs from Tamil Nadu have taken taken offence to a 1949 cartoon of BR Ambedkar, the architect of India's Constitution. ...
01:37 PM, May 11, 2012
Poonch: To quell "rumours" about the uncertainty over establishment of a powerful panchayati raj system in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the government will soon bring a legislation to provide Constitutional status to panchayats. "In order to do away with all rumours and speculations being circulated by some people regarding the establishment of a powerful panchayat system in the state, we will provide constitutional guarantee...
02:39 AM, Apr 27, 2012
NCPCR Chairperson Shanta Sinha said that poor children have been denied education for long. ...
01:38 PM, Apr 12, 2012
The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the State may, by law, determine. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which represents the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A, means that...
11:07 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Moscow: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday signed a draft constitution that was approved a day earlier by nearly 90 per cent of voters, the state-run SANA news agency reported. The government-backed constitution that promises an end to single-party rule and gives the green light to multi-party elections was approved on Monday with 89.4 per cent of votes in favour of the document. Though the voting turnover was put at...
05:31 PM, Feb 28, 2012
After months of violence that left more than 5,000 people dead, Syrians vote on a referendum on democracy. ...
10:00 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Damascus: Syria is all set to hold a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, even as the raging violence in the central city of Homs enters its fourth week. President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to hold elections in the country within 90 days if a new Constitution is approved. The Opposition, however, dismiss it as a charade amid an intensifying crackdown on the 11-month-old revolt against the ruling Baath...
07:22 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, addressed the nation on the eve of the 63rd Republic Day and stressed on reforms, economy, democracy and women empowerment among other subjects. Following is the text of the President's address on the occasion: Dear Citizens, On the eve of our 63rd Republic Day, I convey my warmest greetings to all of you across the country, from every walk of life and in different...
11:22 PM, Jan 25, 2012
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