Queen Elizabeth II: Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch died after 70 years on the throne at the age of 96. After the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the reign was passed on to her eldest son Charles, the former Prince of Wales. He will henceforth be addressed as King Charles III and will be […]
Category: Polity Current Affairs
Kartavya Path
Kartavya Path: The Prime Minister inaugurated the ‘Kartavya Path’ and unveiled the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate. Kartavya Path symbolizes a shift from erstwhile Rajpath being an icon of power to Kartavya Path being an example of public ownership and empowerment. The statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose made of granite, […]
LGBTQIA+
LGBTQIA+: The National Medical Commission (NMC), has written to all State Medical Councils, banning conversion therapy of LGBTQIA+ Community and calling it a “professional misconduct”. The NMC by following a Madras High Court directive, said that conversion therapy is wrong, under the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquettes and Ethics) Regulations, 2002. The LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, […]
Liz Truss
Liz Truss: UK Foreign Minister Liz Truss has been elected as the next Prime Minister of United Kingdom and leader of the governing Conservative Party. Liz defeated her rival, former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399, after over a six-week-long grueling campaign. With the win, she becomes the third female Prime Minister […]
Preventive Detentions
Preventive Detentions: Preventive detentions in 2021 saw a rise by over 23.7% compared with the year before, with over 1.1 lakh people being placed under preventive detention, according to statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Of these, 483 were detentions under the National Security Act, of which almost half (241) were either […]
Sedition Laws
Sedition Laws: As per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports, Assam recorded the most number of Sedition cases in the country in the last eight years. Findings of the NCRB: Out of 475 sedition cases registered in the country between 2014 and 2021, Assam accounted for 69 cases (14.52%). After Assam, the most number of […]
Section 437 Of The Code Of Criminal Procedure
Section 437 Of The Code Of Criminal Procedure: Chief Justice of India, U.U. Lalit, in its order on activist Teesta Setalvad on September 2, made an oral observation that under Section 437 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), a woman is entitled to favourable treatment. He was referring to a provision that says being […]
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 – 2022) was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union. As the country’s head of state from 1988 to 1991, he served as […]
Muslim Personal Law Practices
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 […]
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 […]
