Indian Flag Subject – Polity Context – India celebrates 75th year of its Independence Concept – The Indian flag was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on July 22, 1947. The first national flag, which consisted of three horizontal stripes of red, yellow and green, is […]
Arunachal Pradesh ST list Subject – Polity Context – Parliament has passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill 2021. It seeks to amend the nomenclature of certain tribes from Arunachal Pradesh. Constitutional Provision – Article 342(A) provides, as in the case of SCs, that there will be a Presidential list issued first […]
National Commission for Protection of Child Right (NCPCR) Subject – Polity Context – First Twitter, now Insta: NCPCR wants FB to act on Rahul profile Concept – Set up in March 2007 under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005. It works under the administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child […]
Crypto tokens Subject: Polity Context : Hackers pulled off the biggest ever cryptocurrency heist on Tuesday, stealing $613 million in digital coins from token-swapping platform Poly Network, only to return $260 million worth of tokens less than 24 hours later, the company said Concept: Poly Network Poly Network is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform […]
Sovereign right to taxation Subject: Polity Context : Seven years after coming to power, the BJP-led government recently decided to withdraw the retrospective taxation amendment in the I-T Act introduced in March 2012, by Pranab Mukherjee, the then Finance Minister in the UPA government. Concept: Sovereign right to taxation In India, the Constitution gives […]
Adjournment Sine Die Subject: Polity Context: Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die Wednesday, two days before schedule, after a Monsoon Session that was continuously disrupted by Opposition protests over the Pegasus snooping row, farm laws and other issues. Concept: Adjournment An adjournment suspends the work in a sitting for a specified time, which […]
A conflicting picture between fundamental right of children and right of minority communities Subject: Polity Context: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has released a report — The “Impact of Exemption under Article 15 (5) with regards to Article 21A of the Constitution of India on Education of Children in […]