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Parliamentary sovereignty, also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy, is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies.It holds that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty and is supreme over all other government institutions, including executive or judicial bodies.
The Parliamentary committees are established to study and deal with various matters that cannot be directly handled by the legislature due to their volume. They also monitor the functioning of the executive branch. [3] The Parliamentary committees are of two kinds – standing or permanent committees and ad hoc committees. The former are ...
The amendment's fifty-nine clauses stripped the Supreme Court of many of its powers and moved the political system toward parliamentary sovereignty. The 43rd and 44th Amendments reversed these changes. [18] Article 74 was amended and it was explicitly stipulated that "the President shall act in accordance with the advice of the Council of ...
This is a chronological and complete list of acts passed before 1861, by the Imperial Legislative Council between 1861 and 1947, the Constituent Assembly of India between 1947 and 1949, the Provisional Parliament between 1949 and 1952, and the Parliament of India since 1952. Apart from Finance Act, there are 890 Acts which are still in force as ...
On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by an Islamic terrorist group. The perpetrators were Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists. The attack led to the deaths of five terrorists, six Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Security Services personnel, and a gardener, which totaled 14 fatalities.
The East India Company Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. c. 52), also known as the Charter Act 1793 , was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which renewed the Charter issued to the British East India Company (EIC).
Maintenance of the unity and integrity of India. The sovereignty of the country. Justices Hegde and Mukherjea, in their opinion, provided a separate and shorter list: The sovereignty of India. The democratic character of the polity. The unity of the country. Essential features of individual freedoms. The mandate to build a welfare state.
A midnight session was convened on 15 August, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of India's independence. Leader of Opposition party Atal Bihari Vajpayee moved the motion to consider the state of Indian democracy and its democratic institutions, economic situation, position of infrastructure and potential in the field of science and technology ...