This is why CAA is necessary Subject – Polity Context: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Purihad remarked that developments in Afghanistan are the reason why the enactment of the citizenship Amendment Act is necessary. Concept: Who is a refuge? Under the 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees and the subsequent 1967 Protocol, […]
National Register of Citizens (NRC) Subject – Polity Context – NRC is final, rules Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal Concept – While the Registrar General of India has not yet issued a notification on Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) to make it a legal document, a Foreigners’ Tribunal has gone ahead and recorded it […]
Constitutional Provisions regarding Education Subject – Polity Context – Across the Aisle: Inequity and injustice writ large, writes P Chidambaram Concept – ‘Education’ is a State List subject. List II (State List), Entry 11, as originally enacted, read: Education, including universities, subject to the provisions of entries 63, 64, 65 and 66 of […]
District Level Committees Subject – Polity Context – District Level Committees to be constituted which shall exercise oversight over all power related schemes of Government of India:Power Ministry. Concept – District Level Committees to be constituted which shall exercise oversight over all power related schemes of Government of India. Committees will also look […]
Transfer of High Court Judges Subject – Polity Context – Higher judiciary set for biggest reshuffle in recent times. Judges of 14 HCs may be transferred Concept – Article 222 of the Constitution makes provision for the transfer of a Judge (including Chief Justice) from one High Court to any other High Court. The initiation of the proposal for the transfer of a Judge should […]
SC Collegium Subject – Polity Context – SC Collegium on mission mode to fill vacancies Concept – To know about SC Collegium, please click here.
Sansad TV Subject – Polity Context – PM launches Sansad TV, calls it voice of the House Concept – Sansad TV, a news channel combining the Lok Sabha TV and the Rajya Sabha TV, was launched. Calling the Sansad TV the new voice of Parliament, the Prime Minister said this added another important […]