Subject: Polity Context: Discussions in parliamentary forums would have helped the government get feedback on the ground situation across the country and fine-tune its response. Concept: The first Parliamentary Forum on Water Conservation & Management was constituted on 12 August, 2005. Thereafter, four more Parliamentary Forums on Children, Youth, Population & Public Health and Global […]

Subject: Polity Context: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats notified that there will be no Question Hour during the Monsoon Session of Parliament in view of the Covid-19 pandemic, and that Zero Hour will be restricted in both Houses Concept: Question Hour The first hour of every parliamentary sitting is slotted for this. Question Hour is the liveliest hour […]

Subject: Polity Context: The Allahabad High Court revoked the charges under the National Security Act against Gorakhpur doctor Kafeel Khan, and asked the state government to release him immediately. Concept: History Preventive detention laws in India date back to early days of the colonial era when the Bengal Regulation III of 1818 was enacted to empower […]

Subject: Polity Context: The Supreme Court has given cogent reasons for a reconsideration of the verdict given by a five-judge Bench in 2004 that State legislatures have no power to create sub-classifications among the list of Scheduled Castes notified by the President Concept: The Bench has disagreed with the formulation in V. Chinnaiah vs. State of Andhra Pradesh (2004)that […]