CBI investigating powers inside state Subject – Polity Context – Bengal can’t bar CBI from probing crimes: Centre Concept – To know about CBI, please click here. To know about CBI and Consent of States, please click here.

    Right to privacy Subject – Polity Context – Parliamentary panel on data protection Bill suggests critical amendments for adoption in the winter session Concept – Right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 and as a part of the freedoms guaranteed […]

    Election of Deputy Speaker Subject – Polity Context – Hardoi MLA Nitin Agrawal was on Monday elected Deputy Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, which has barely five months left in its tenure. Concept – What does the Constitution say about the Deputy Speaker? Article 93 says: “The House of the People shall, […]

    Super-legislature Subject – Polity Context – Judiciary should not act as a ‘super-legislature’, says Centre Concept – A “distressed” government has taken a leaf from former United States President Franklin D Roosevelt’s speech to emphasise that the judiciary ought not act as a “super-legislature” by entertaining a challenge to the Tribunal Reforms Act. […]