Ninety First Amendment News Today

It might be several years before reservation for women becomes applicable — mainly because it has been made contingent on the delimitation exercise. What is delimitation, and how does it work?

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the exception to legislators from “disqualification on ground of defection” in case of merger of political...

Maharashtra Politics may witness some more surprises before Lok Sabha polls By Arif Ayaz Parrey and Gursimran Kaur Bakshi Monsoons are supposed to be the harbingers of new life in a parched, thirsty subcontinent. But, for the second year in a row, the rains have brought along a political storm in Maharashtra. Eknath S. Shinde

Mangaluru, May 25: Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha and Abhinava Bharath Sanghatane leaders have challenged Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel to contest as an independent candidate without using the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, and win at least 10% of votes that Arun Kumar Puthila won. 

Mangaluru, May 25: Mangalore University has approved and introduced job-oriented diploma, certificate, and undergraduate courses during its first academic council meeting for the year 2023-24 on Monday.

Bengaluru, May 25: BJP leader and Mysore-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has called for a statewide protest from June if the Congress does not fulfill its poll guarantee of providing 200 units of free electricity to the people of Karnataka.

Karwar, May 21: For the first time, India's indigenously-built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on Saturday berthed at the strategically key Karwar naval base in coastal Karnataka. 

Mangaluru, May 16: Disheartened over his two consecutive defeats from Bantwal constituency in Karnataka Assembly polls, Congress leader and former minister B Ramanath Rai has announced his retirement from electoral politics.

New Delhi, May 11: The Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgment, effectively opened the doors for the disqualification of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for defection from the Shiv Sena party while holding that the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari’s call for trust vote, which led to the resignation of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government, was illegal.

As per the Tenth Schedule, which does not recognise a split but allows a merger, the Eknath Shinde faction MLAs can avoid disqualification only by merging with another party.