Death Sentence: The Supreme Court on September 19 referred to a larger Bench issues relating to procedural norms for imposing the death sentence. The intervention is seen as a major step in plugging gaps in the way in which trial courts award the death sentence. Section 235 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) requires […]
Day: September 23, 2022
SPARSH Initiative
SPARSH Initiative: The Defence Accounts Department signed a MoU with Bank of Baroda and HDFC Bank, to onboard them as Service Centres under the System for Pension Administration (Raksha) (SPARSH) initiative, across more than 14,000 branches throughout India. SPARSH is a web-based system for processing the pension claims and crediting the pension directly into the […]
Ambedkar Circuit
Ambedkar Circuit: Union Tourism and Culture announced a special tourist train to cover the “Ambedkar Circuit”. The modalities — such as the date of journey, ticket price, number of passengers —are still in the works. The government had first proposed the Ambedkar Circuit, or Panchteerth, in 2016. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said the Panchteerth […]
