Subject: Polity Context: Election Commission (EC) approached the Law Ministry to permit NRIs to cast their votes from overseas through postal ballots. Concept: According to a UN report of 2015, India’s diaspora population is the largest in the world at 16 million people. Registration of NRI voters, in comparison, has been very low: a little […]
Subject : Polity Context : Attorney General for India granted consent to initiate criminal contempt of court proceedings against a comic illustrator for allegedly scandalising the judiciary through her tweets and illustrations. Concept : The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, lays down the law on contempt of court. Section 15 of the legislation describes the […]
Subject : Polity Context : Farmers in delhi protest is demanding for a special session of parliament. Concept : Under Article 85, the Houses of Parliament shall be summoned in such a manner that six months shall not lapse between two sessions of Parliament. By convention, the Parliament meets in three regular sessions in a […]
Subject: Polity Concept: Article 169 The Parliament can abolish a legislative council (where it already exists) or create it (where it does not exist) by a simple majority, that is, a majority of the members of each House present and voting, if the legislative assembly of the concerned state, by a special majority, passes a […]
Subject: Polity Context: With less than two months of his tenure remaining, US President exercised his powers under the Constitution to pardon his former National Security Advisor, who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Concept: USA President: The President of the US has the constitutional right to pardon or commute sentences related […]
Subject: Polity Context: India’s first Member of Parliament to have been disqualified(Mr. Lalduhoma ) from the Lok Sabha has now been disqualified as an MLA in Mizoram. Concept: The disqualification was on the ground that he had declared himself as a representative of the Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) despite being elected as an independent candidate […]