Subject: Acts Context: Supreme Court is looking for validity of a Kerala law that prohibits animal sacrifice for appeasement of deity in temples. Concept: The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 prohibits any person from inflicting, causing, or if it is the owner, permitting, unnecessary pain or suffering to be inflicted on any animal. […]
Subject: Polity Context: Recent defection trial in Rajasthan has brought to light importance of anti-defection law. Concept: A constitutional challenge to the Tenth Schedule was settled by the apex court in KihotoHollohan case. The principal question before the Supreme Court in the case was whether the powerful role given to the Speaker violated the doctrine […]
Subject: Polity Context: A former legal advisor to the Election Commission (EC) has red-flagged the Centre’s order to set up a Delimitation Commission for Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland and called it “unconstitutional” and “illegal”. Reasons In the last delimitation exercise, completed in 2008, Arunachal, Manipur, Assam, Nagaland were kept out due to apprehensions over use […]
Subject:IR Context: QUAD grouping is gaining attention in view of growing assertiveness of China in south China sea. Concept: The grouping consists of Japan, India, United States and Australia. All four nations find a common ground of being the democratic nations and common interests of unhindered maritime trade and security. The idea was first mooted by Japanese […]
Subject: Economy Context: During BIS’ annual general meeting last month, it discussed actions taken by central banks in various countries in response to pandemic. Concept: The Basel Committee – initially named the Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices was established by the central bank Governors of the Group of Ten countries at the end […]
Subject: Governance Context: A government committee headed by Kris Gopalakrishnan has suggested that non-personal data generated in the country be allowed to be harnessed by various domestic companies and entities. Concept: Non-personal data is any set of data which does not contain personally identifiable information. This in essence means that no individual or living person […]
Subject: Science and tech/ Economy Context: Farmers all over India are severely affected by pests. Concept: The continuous onslaught of desert locusts swarms has ravaged his early-stage bajra crop. The pesky invaders from Iran and Pakistan have also seriously damaged moong and guar fields. As if the locust’s menace, which is the worst since 1993, […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Reliance plans to build home-grown 5G network solution based on an open source telecom platform called Open RAN. Concept: A radio access network (RAN) is the part of a telecommunications system that connects individual devices to other parts of a network through radio connections. A RAN resides between user equipment, such as […]
Daily Prelims Topic Radio Access Network: Pest Challenge Non-Personal Data BIS and Basel norm QUAD Delimitation Kihoto Hollohan VS Zachillhu And Others (1992) Prevention to cruelty act Daily Mapping Chabahar port Delaram–Zaranj Highway Daily Facts Cyber-attacks: There has been a 260 per cent increase in cyber-attacks since the lockdown began. Daily Supreme Court Judgements […]