Muslim Personal Law Practices: A five-judge Constitution Bench on Tuesday impleaded the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the National Commission of Women (NCW) and the National Commission of Minorities as parties in a batch of petitions challenging the Muslim Personal Law practices such as polygamy and nikah halala. The Supreme Court also issued notice in […]
Category: Current Affairs
Inflation
Inflation: There are wide disparities in the pace of price rise experienced by consumers across the country, with a dozen States clocking an average inflation of less than 6% and another 12 States averaging more than 7% through 2022 so far. Headline inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index has averaged 6.8% in the first […]
Special Marriage Act, 1954 Challenge Dismissed
Special Marriage Act, 1954: The Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition challenging the Constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Special Marriage Act, 1954 under which couples seek refuge for inter-faith and inter-caste marriages. The petition challenged the Constitutional validity of certain provisions of the SMA, calling it violative of the right to privacy guaranteed […]
PAREKH
PAREKH: Union government is planning to set up a national regulator PAREKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) for achieving a benchmark framework to assess students at the secondary and higher secondary level. PARAKH, is also part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. PAREKH is a proposed regulator, which will […]
Cloud Seeding
Cloud Seeding: Countries in middle-east and north Africa are racing to develop chemicals to get rain drops out of the cloud. Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds by dispersing substances (such as silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice […]
Forensic Evidence
Forensic Evidence: Delhi Police has become the first police force in the country to make collection of forensic evidence mandatory in crimes punishable by more than six years. The order was issued hours after Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited the Police Headquarters here. Since Delhi is a Union Territory, its police force is under […]
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations General Assembly: The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), praised India for its contributions to the global body. He described India as a “source of pride” not only for South Asia but for all peace-loving democracies. India was 1st country to raise Apartheid issue at UN. More than 2 lakh troops […]
UN High Seas treaty
UN High Seas treaty: Negotiations involving 168 countries, including the European Union, to agree on a UN treaty for protecting oceans failed on August 27. Also referred to as the ‘Paris Agreement for the Ocean’, the treaty to deal with Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction has been under discussion for several years. The proposed treaty concerns […]
Scheme For Economic Empowerment Of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes.
Scheme For Economic Empowerment Of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes: The Union Social Justice Ministry received 402 applications online from across the country for benefits under the Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes. More than 10 crore Indians from 1,400 communities belong to these groups, show the latest estimates available with […]
Accidental Deaths & Suicides In India Report 2021
Accidental Deaths & Suicides In India Report 2021: Violent crimes such as rape, kidnapping, atrocities against children, and robberies registered across India increased in 2021, after the pandemic-related restrictions led to a decline in these severe offences in 2020. Murders, which did not come down even in 2020, continued to increase in 2021 too, according […]
