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Constitutional culture may be understood as the interactions between the citizens and officials of a State concerning the meaning of the Constitution. It refers to the belief that the exercise of State power is limited by the Constitution, a document which derives its legitimacy from the will of the people. Legal challenges to legislation – such as public interest litigations – and public engagement with the legislative process through petitions and protests may all be considered as examples of constitutional culture. The Supreme Court has noted that “mere existence of a Constitution … does not ensure constitutionalism or a constitutional culture. It is the political maturity and traditions of a people that import meaning to a Constitution, which otherwise merely embodies political hopes and ideals.”

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area, in the last few weeks has witnessed a drastic increase in attacks against the Pakistani security forces, with Baloch rebels having caused heavy casualties to the state forces in different operations. Baloch insurgents are usually involved in scattered target killings, small ambush, and roadside bombings. Now we’re seeing inghimasi and skilled attacks on military camps in which rebel fighters are storming the security forces camps and inflicting heavy casualties.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekara Rao is emerging as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nemesis, not the soft-spoken Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray nor the fire-breathing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee—‘KCR’, as he is called, is an adversary with the ability to get under the skin.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stand for a stronger Centre is well known by now, and also how these are undermining and weakening the very provision of federalism in the Constitution of India, both in letter and spirit. We also have examples when the Modi government was not able to legally undermine the elected opposition led state government, it changed the very definition of the ‘government’ against the spirit of the Constitution of India. The proposed Chief Ministers meet by the Chief Minister of Bengal Mamata Banerjee to be held in Delhi soon is thus significant.

The social media tweets and Instagram/Facebook posts sent out by dealers and outlets of some top order multinational consumer brands in Pakistan in support of ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ and ‘Right to Freedom’ are simply shocking and deserve universal condemnation. Such posts by dealers of those popular MNC brands expose, if anything, their thoughtless marketing misadventure in business extremism. They mock at the 21st century’s most famous marketing strategy ‘think local, act local’ promoted by Coca-Cola’s former global CEO Douglas Daft in 2000 AD and management thinker Theodore Levitt’s provocative classic ‘The Globalisation of Markets’ published in Harvard Business Review so many years ago.

New Delhi: Rattled by Saturday's shock defeat to France, India pumped in all their pent up frustration on South Africa thrashing the hosts 10-2 for the second time in the FIH Hockey Pro League on Sunday at Potchefstroom.

Chennai: Agra teenager Shahan Ali Mohsin clinched the premier MRF F1600 category title in Indian National Car Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Sunday.

The first fully democratic nation with assured independence for living and for pursuit of religious beliefs is now caught in a torrent political controversy only because few conservatives in the political group of young pretending to be serving the old religious norms are insisting on denial of independence to few. India was hailed in 1950 with her constitution assuring full freedom and voting rights to all regardless of their gender or economic status. Even America had not granted voting rights to women or economically not independents though accepted as citizens for 450 years.

New Delhi: High flying India came down with a thud as they lost to France 2-5 in their 2nd leg match of the FIH Hockey Pro League in Potchefstroom (SA) on Saturday.

New Delhi: Delhi Capital acquired the Australian opener David Warner along with compatriot Mitchell Marsh on Day 1 of the Tata IPL 2022 Mega Auction in Bengaluru on Saturday.