Safety Of Aadhaar: The Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) chose to withdraw its advisory two days after it was issued, encouraging users to desist from distributing photocopies of their Aadhaar Card. The notification has been withdrawn to avoid any misinterpretation UIDAI advisory say Holders should utilise a masked Aadhaar card instead of the […]
Category: Polity Current Affairs
Caste based Census : Bihar
Caste based Census : Bihar A multi-party meeting held in Bihar unanimously decided to start the caste-based census very soon after the proposal is placed in the Cabinet. All parties which have representation in the legislature attended the meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. It would be a “time-bound exercise and each and every […]
PARAM ANANTA India’s Latest Super Computer
PARAM ANANTA India’s Latest Super Computer PARAM ANANTA is India’s latest super computer. It has 838 TeraFlops supercomputing capability. It was commissioned at IIT Gandhinagar under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) It has been developed jointly by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Param Ananta will rank […]
Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021
Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021: A petition was filed before Delhi High Court, challenging the exclusion of a single man and a woman having a child from surrogacy and demanded the decriminalization of commercial surrogacy. The petitioners have challenged their exclusion from availing surrogacy under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 and Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, […]
Recognition Of Sex Work As a Profession : Supreme Court
Recognition Of Sex Work As a Profession : Supreme Court The Supreme Court, in a significant order has recognised sex work as a “profession” whose practitioners are entitled to dignity and equal protection under law. The Supreme Court has directed that police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers. […]
Inter-State Council
Inter-State Council: The Inter-State Council(ISC) has been reconstituted with the Prime Minister as Chairman and Chief Ministers of all States and six Union Ministers as members. Ten union ministers will be the permanent invitees to the Inter-State Council. The government has also reconstituted the standing committee of the Inter-State Council with Union Home as Chairman. […]
Defamation Suit Against Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut
Defamation Suit Against Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut: BJP leader Kirit Somaiya’s wife Medha has filed a civil defamation suit against Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut. Somaiya sought court to direct Raut either pay her Rs 100cr or deposit amount in CM relief fund. Raut had repeatedly made defamatory public statements against her and her husband, she […]
New Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Of Delhi :Vinai Kumar Saxena
New Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Of Delhi :Vinai Kumar Saxena Vinai Kumar Saxena, Chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission, has been appointed the new Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) of Delhi. President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignation of Anil Baijal from the post and appointed Vinai Kumar Saxena to be the Lt. Governor of National Capital Territory of […]
13th Annual Day Commemoration Of The Competition Commission Of India (CCI)
13th Annual Day Commemoration Of The Competition Commission Of India (CCI): Finance Minister participated in the 13th Annual Day commemoration of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Finance Minister also inaugurated the regional office at Kolkata and launched an upgraded website of CCI. Competition Commission of India (CCI) is a statutory body of the Government […]
Article 142
Article 142: In ordering the release of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A G Perarivalan on May 18, the Supreme Court invoked the extraordinary power conferred on the court under Article 142 of the Constitution. Article 142 of Constitution: Title: Enforcement of decrees, orders of Supreme Court and orders as to discovery, etc. This article […]
