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The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Central government and asked the Attorney General for India to assist it in the matter.

Redrawing Assembly, Parl seats NEW DELHI, Feb 13: The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging the Government’s decision to constitute the Delimitation Commission for redrawing the Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. A bench of Justices S K Kaul and A S Oka delivered the verdict on a plea filed by two Kashmir residents. While pronouncing the verdict, Justice Oka said nothing in this judgement shall be construed as giving an...

NEW DELHI, Feb 13: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the government’s decision to constitute the delimitation commission for redrawing the legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. A bench of Justices S K Kaul and A S Oka delivered the verdict on a plea filed by two Kashmir residents. While pronouncing the verdict, Justice Oka said nothing in this judgement shall be construed as giving an imprimatur to the [&hellip...

The petitioners had challenged the increase in the number of seats from 107 to 114 in the Union Territory.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a PIL questioning non-fulfilment of post of Deputy Speaker in Lok Sabha and state assemblies of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand.A bench, headed by Chief Justice ...

The bench observed that issue of validity of the exercise of power relating to Article 370 is subject matter of petitions pending before the apex court

SC had on December 1 last year reserved its verdict on the plea challenging the govt's decision to constitute the delimitation commission

With an average of 9 percent, representation of women in the state Legislative Assemblies in India is far from comforting.  In the state of Nagaland, since the first general elections were held in 1964, there has not been a single women representative in

It is up to Parliament to examine amendments to the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday submitted that it is for the Parliament to consider amendments to the Constitution and Representation of the People Act (RPI) for simultaneous elections to be conducted in the country.