The Cooling-off period for retired Bureaucrats Subject: Polity Section: Civil service Context: Archana Goyal Gulati, an 1989-batch official of the Indian Posts and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service (Indian P&TAFS), has joined Google as Chief of Public Policy after taking voluntary retirement from the civil service. As she completed the one-year cooling period that is […]
HC seeks report on relief in sexual offence cases Subject: Polity Section: Right issues Context: The Delhi High Court has called for a detailed report from the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) to share details of cases where compensation has been paid and cases where compensation is yet to be paid to […]
Mercy Petition Subject: Polity Section: Executive Context: President has no role to play in Perarivalan’s plea, says SC Observation of Court: Supreme Court disagreed with the Central government’s suggestion that the court should wait till the President took a call on Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A.G. Perarivalan’s mercy plea referred to him […]
Anti-Defection Law Subject: Polity Section: Parliament Context: Recent report by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) says that close to 90 per cent of the MLAs across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Punjab, who recontested in the 2022 Assembly polls after switching parties saw their wealth grow between 2017 and 2022 Anti-Defection Law: […]
Governor’s assent to bill Subject: Polity Section: Federalism Context: The State of Tamil Nadu has been witnessing a confrontation between the elected government and the State Governor on the question of giving assent to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Bill passed by the State Assembly. Assent to bills under article 200 […]
Lokpal Subject: Polity Section: National Bodies Context: Lokpal to get a new office at World Trade Centre building Background: On March 19, 2019, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh was appointed India’s first Lokpal along with eight other members. The appointment itself was made five years after the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act was passed in […]