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एक समय की बात है, एक छोटे से गाँव में एक बड़ा मेला आयोजित हुआ। मेले में लोगों ने अपने अलग-अलग शैली में नृत्य, गाना, खेलना, और प्रदर्शन करने का मौका पाया। लेकिन एक व्यक्ति ने बिना किसी प्रदर्शन के …

  “विश्व कछुआ दिवस” एक उपलब्धि हो सकती है, जिसका उद्देश्य कछुए या संबंधित प्रजातियों की संरक्षण और संरक्षण के महत्व को जागरूक करना हो सकता है। यह एक अवसर हो सकता है जब लोग अपने क्षेत्र में अपने कछुओं …

WHY do babies have 70 more bones than adults? New-borns tend to have about 270 bones, most of which are tiny. This makes the skeleton more flexible and helps the baby get through the birth canal and grow quickly. As …

WHY are Japanese suicide bombers called kamikazes? The Mongol Khan Kublai twice planned an invasion of Japan, and both times he was prevented by violent typhoons. The Japanese saw this as help from above and called them “kamikaze,” which means …

Introduction While submitting the Draft Constitution, Dr. Ambedkar, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee, stated that “although its Constitution may be federal in structure”, the Committee had used the term “Union” because of certain advantages, These advantages, he explained to …

Nature of the amending process THE nature of the amending process envisaged by the makers of our Constitution can be best explained by referring to the observation of Pandit Nehru (quoted under ‘Reconciliation of a written Constitution with Parliamentary Sovereignty), …

Introduction These were added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976. The list was created on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee. They are influenced by the USSR constitution. None of the democratic countries except Japan have fundamental duties as …

Introduction PART IV of the Constitution (Arts. 36-51) contains the Directive Principles of State Policy. They are of the following classes : Certain ideas, particularly economic, which, according to the framers of the Constitution, the States should strive for. Certain …

Individual Rights and Fundamental Rights The Constitution of England is unwritten. Hence, there is, in England, no code of Fundamental Rights as exists in the Constitution of the United States or in other written Constitutions of the world. This does …

The population of a State is divided into two classes – citizens and aliens. While citizens enjoy full civil and political Citizenship rights, aliens do not enjoy all of them. Citizens are members of the political community to which they belong. …

Introduction In 1950, there was a fourfold classification of states: Part A, B, C, and D. In 1948 there was a demand for a linguistic basis to create states, particularly from south India. Commissions The Dhar Commission was appointed to study …

Territory of India As has been already stated, the political structure prescribed by the Constitution is a federal Union. The name of the Union is India or Bharat [Art. 1(1)] The expression ‘Union of India’ should be distinguished from the …

Introduction It shows the general purpose behind the provisions of the Constitution. However, it is non-justifiable and non-enforceable by courts. It is derived from the Objectives Resolution proposed by Jawaharlal Nehru in the constituent assembly. It was amended once by …

OUTSTANDING FEATURES OF OUR CONSTITUTION his extraordinary bulk of the Constitution is due to several reasons The framers sought to incorporate the accumulated experience gathered from the working of all the known Constitutions and to avoid defects and loopholes that …

Off the top of your head, do you know how many teeth you have? Did you just attempt to count your teeth using your tongue? As much as we use our teeth daily for things like chewing and speaking, many …

EVERY Constitution has a philosopHy of its own. For the philosophy underlying our Constitution, we must look back to the historic Objectives Resolution of Pandit Nehru which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on January 22, 1947, and which inspired the …

Introduction The demand that India’s political destiny should be determined by the Indians themselves had been put forward by Mahatma Gandhi as early as 1922 “Swara] will not be a free gift of the British Parliament; it will be a …

The very fact that the Constitution of the Indian Republic is the product not of a political revolution but of the research and deliberations of a body of eminent representatives of the people who sought to improve upon the existing …

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