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 […]