Category: Polity Current Affairs

The Missing Deputy Speaker: Supreme Court sought response from Centre on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that contends that not electing a Deputy Speaker to the 17th (present) Lok Sabha, since 2019, is “against the letter and spirit of the Constitution”. The post has also been lying vacant in the five state Assemblies including Rajasthan, […]

Uttarakhand’s Anti Cheating Law: On February 11 2023, a protest in Dehradun over paper leaks and scams in government recruitment tests turned violent. On the following day, the Uttarakhand Governor gave his assent to the Uttarakhand Competitive Examination (Measures for Control and Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Ordinance, 2023 to prevent the use of […]

New Governors Appointed: President Murmu recently appointed six new governors and reshuffled seven others. Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik is now the governor of Arunachal Pradesh. Lakshman Prasad Acharya has taken over as governor of Sikkim. C.P. Radhakrishnan has become the governor of Jharkhand. Shiv Pratap Shukla is the new governor of Himachal Pradesh. Gulab […]

Child Marriages In Assam : 2,000 People Arrested More than 2,000 people have been arrested in a statewide crackdown on child marriages that have taken place in the state of Assam. UN estimates suggest that 1.5 million girls get married before they turn 18 in India. According to the 2011 census, 44 per cent of […]

Left Wing Extremism : Decline In Violence The Union Home Minister in a meeting said that for the first time in 4 decades, the number of deaths of civilians and security forces in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) came down under 100 in 2022. Violence related to LWE had come down by 76% in 2022 as […]

New Haj Policy: The ministry of Minority Affairs has announced a new Haj policy under which the application forms have been made available for free and the package cost per pilgrim has been reduced by Rs 50,000. The reduction of Rs 50,000 comes primarily in the form of relaxation of norms for foreign currency ,earlier […]

What Is Res-Judicata: The Madras High Court recently dismissed a civil revision petition filed by a woman against an order of a lower court that had allowed a second divorce petition filed by her husband on the ground of res-judicata. The concept of res judicata has evolved from the English Common Law System. Res judicata […]

Parliament Is The “North Star” Of Democracy : Vice President The Vice President of India said Parliament is the “North Star” of democracy The North Star is also known as Pole Star. It is a very bright star — around 2,500 times more luminous than the Sun. It is part of the constellation Ursa Minor […]

e-Courts Integrated Mission Mode Project: The Government of India has launched the e-Courts Integrated Mission Mode Project in the country for computerization of District and subordinate courts with the objective of improving access to justice using technology. e-Courts Integrated Mission Mode Project As part of the National e-Governance Plan, the project is under implementation since […]

Judicial Majoritarianism: As the recent majority judgment of the Supreme Court on demonetisation comes under criticism, the minority judgment by J. Nagarathna is being hailed for its challenge to the RBI’s institutional acquiescence to the Central government. Judicial Majoritarianism: As opposed to standard matters heard by Division Benches consisting of two judges, numerical majorities are […]