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The Supreme Court Constitution Bench of 7 Judges led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud today reserved its decision on the issue of granting minority status to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). The bench...

On the final day of hearings of the 7-judge Constitution Bench on the issue of granting minority status to the Aligarh Muslim University, the bench and petitioners dwelled to see whether the Amendment...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2024? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Polity and Governance.

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2024? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Polity and Governance.

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2024? Check your progress and revise your topics through ours quiz on Polity and Governance.

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The a Amendment mandated the reservation of seats for women in Panchayati Raj institutions and in urban local bodies.

Issues relating to ensuring greater representation of women in politics had been discussed even prior to Independence, and in the Constituent Assembly. In independent India, the issue got momentum only in the 1970s.

Please ask yourself, are we working the Constitution or wrecking the Constitution?

The Union government’s grounds of review against the May 11 judgment of the Supreme Court camouflages its contentions as “errors apparent on the face of the record”.