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Overall List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes Population 2/221 CIA World Factbook Total Population(July 2015) 1,251,695,584 Population density 30/238 Countries of the World (2013) Derived from the  CIA World Factbook  figures for population divided by area List of sovereign states and dependent territories by fertility rate 79/223 CIA World Factbook TFR Ranking 2.58 in 2012 English-speaking population 2/133 Census of India 10.35% (125,226,449) English speakers out of 1,210,000,000 eligible population Population Density 31/241 Economist Intelligence Unit 382 people per km 2  as of 1 March 2011 Human Development Index 130/187 United Nations 2015 report Literacy rate 168/234 Census of India 2011 Economy Globalization Index 107/184 ETHZ  KOF Index of Globalization  2016 World Competitiveness Scoreboard 32/59 IMD International   2011 Fm Global Resilience Index 119/130 FM global 2015 Index of Economic Freedom 124/179 The Wall Street Journal 2011 Quality-of-li

Kesavananda Bharati v. The State of Kerala and Others (AIR 1973 SC 1461) is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of India. It is the basis for the power of the Indian judiciary to review, and strike down, amendments to the Constitution of India passed by the Indian parliament which conflicts with or seeks to alter the constitution’s ‘basic structure’. The judgment also defined the extent to which Parliament could restrict the right to property, in pursuit of land reform and the redistribution of large landholdings to cultivators, overruling previous decisions that suggested that the right to property could not be restricted. The case was a culmination of a series of cases relating to limitations to the power to amend the Indian constitution. The 42nd amendment is thought to be the immediate and most direct fall out of the judgement. Apart from it, the judgement cleared the deck for complete legislative authority to amend any part of the constitution except when the amendments are

We know that India and Pakistan boundary was fixed by Sir Radcliffe and the line was called Radcliffe Line. However, some disputes arose because of the erroneous depiction of the maps by the Radcliffe Award. One of such disputes was Berubari Dispute. This dispute rose due to an omission in the written text. Radcliffe had divided the district of Jalpaigudi between India and Pakistan by awarding some thanas to one country and others to the other country. The boundary line was determined on the basis of the boundaries of the thanas. In describing this boundary, Radcliffe omitted to mention one Thana. Berubari Union No. 12 lies within Jalpaigudi thana which was awarded to India. However, the omission of the Thana Boda and the erroneous depiction on the map enabled Pakistan to claim that a part of Berubari belonged to it. This dispute was resolved by Nehru-Noon Agreement of 1958, whereby half of Berubari Union No. 12 was to be given to Pakistan and the other half adjacent to India was to b