Category: Polity Current Affairs

Special Marriage Act: Several interfaith couples including some celebrities chose to marry under a secular personal law i.e. through the Special Marriage Act, of 1954. The Special Marriage Act of 1954 (SMA) was passed by Parliament on October 9, 1954. It governs a civil marriage where the state sanctions the marriage rather than the religion. […]

Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) gas raised concern over the Deplorable Condition of many Mental Healthcare Institutions (MHIs) in India, violating Mental Healthcare Act (MHA), 2017. According to the NHRC, MHIs are “illegally” keeping patients long after their recovery, which not only violates Article 21 but also highlights failure of […]

Draft Geo-heritage Sites And Geo-relics (Preservation and Maintenance) Bill, 2022: The Ministry of Mines has notified Draft Geo-heritage Sites and Geo-relics (Preservation and Maintenance) Bill, 2022. The Bill is aimed at providing for the declaration, preservation, protection and maintenance of geo-heritage sites and geo-relics of national importance, for geological studies, education, research and awareness purposes. […]

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 […]