The petition challenged the legality of adding the words 'Socialist' and 'Secular' to the Preamble through the 42nd Constitutional Amendment in 1976, arguing that including these words exceeds the Parliament's power to amend the Constitution under Article 368.
The petition contended that Dr BR Ambedkar had rejected the incorporation of these words as the Constitution cannot thrust upon the citizens certain political ideologies by taking away their right to choose.
The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Centre and asked the Attorney General to assist the court in the matter of an "ex-Muslim" woman, who moved the apex court seeking a secular succession law.
Former Kalaburagi zilla panchayat member Gurushant Pattedar said he had announced the "bounty" because Hegde's comment had pained Dalits, Muslims, backward classes and secular people.
Ananth Kumar Hegde said that those who consider themselves secular and intellectual do not have "their own identity" and they were also unaware of their parentage.
India on Thursday said it is a secular state with no state religion and safeguarding the rights of minorities forms an essential core of its polity.
Holding that elections are secular exercise, the Supreme Court on Thursday said Parliament has done nothing in the last two decades to stop misuse of religion for electoral gains.
Ratlam (MP): A tehsildar has courted a row with her social media post in which she purportedly appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch a "suicide scheme" in name of former premier Rajiv Gandhi
PM Narendra Modi has been the victim of "secular syndicate" and "intolerance" for the last 20 years but that will not affect the pace of development which he is carrying out in the country, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said today.
Hyderabad: Noting that secularism reflected the “character” of India, Communist Party of India national general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy on Saturday decried the cropping of the word “secular” from the Preamble of Constitution and demanded
Mumbai:v Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says that he has not been asked by the Narendra Modi government to be part of its ad campaign that stresses the need to rise above caste and religion.He took to
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Rampur (UP): Suggesting that Muslims have contributed to Narendra Modi's victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, SP leader Azam Khan, who had indulged in a vitriolic attack on the BJP leader, said they had
What kind of a deal the Congress struck with Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari in Delhi is not known. But the gist of what transpired in the meeting between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bukhari is
New Delhi: The chief of the powerful Jamiat Ulema Hind, the all India organisation of ulemas (Muslim clerics), Maulana Mehmood Madani today said, so-called secular parties should refrain from raising any bogey to get Muslim
In an interview with MiD DAY editor Abhijit Majumder, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan solidly defended his role in promoting Gujarat, and went to the extent of saying that the chief minister Narendra Modi was secular.
CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday made a distinction between Congress and BJP, describing the former as a secular party and the latter as representing majority communalism and said a third alternative was not
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