UP Anti-Conversion Law: The Uttar Pradesh Police have registered a total of 108 cases under a controversial ordinance that criminalises religious conversion by “force, undue influence, coercion, or allurement”. The Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, which was replaced by an Act earlier this year, completes a year. This law was passed by the […]
Category: Polity Current Affairs
Interpol: Delegate for Asia in its Executive Committee
Interpol: The Interpol has elected Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Director Praveen Sinha as a Delegate for Asia in its Executive Committee. Interpol Executive Committee has 13 members from different countries comprising the President of the Interpol, two Vice-Presidents and nine Delegates. It supervises the execution of the Interpol General Assembly’s decisions and the […]
Trade Unions Push For Repeal Of Labour Codes
Trade Unions Push For Repeal Of Labour Codes: Over a year since Parliament passed four labour codes (on wages, social security, occupational safety and industrial relations), the Centre is still in the process of notifying the rules to implement the laws and has not set a date for the roll-out. Trade unions, however, have planned […]
Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019
Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019: A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) has finalised and adopted the draft report on The Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019 by a majority. The Bill will be soon tabled in the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament. The JPC has got five extensions to submit a report on the Bill […]
Lateral Entry in UPSC
Lateral Entry: The recent recommendation of 31 candidates by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to be inducted into senior and mid-level positions in various union ministries is the second such attempt towards bringing specialists from private sector in the senior and middle level of bureaucracy. Earlier too, nine lateral entrants from private sector were […]
Kulbhushan Jadhav Case
Kulbhushan Jadhav Case: Pakistan’s Parliament has enacted a law to give Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav the right to file a review appeal against his conviction by a military court. The bill was enacted to implement an order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). However, India points out that the law has several “shortcomings”, […]
Repeal Of Three Contentious Farm Laws
Repeal Of Three Contentious Farm Laws: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on November 19 announced the repeal of three contentious farm laws. He assured farmer groups protesting against these laws that the legislative process for the repeal would be completed in the upcoming Winter Session of the Parliament. Three Farm […]
PESA Act
PESA Act: One Day National Conference was organized on the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA) to celebrate 25th year of PESA Act, as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. The Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 or PESA Act is a law enacted by the Government of […]
Protection Of Children From Sexual Offences Act (POCSO)
Protection Of Children From Sexual Offences Act (POCSO): The Supreme Court quashed a Bombay High Court decision to acquit a man charged with assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) solely on the grounds that he groped the child over her clothes without “skin-to-skin” contact. “The act of touching a sexual […]
Panchayats Extension To Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act 1996
Panchayats Extension To Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act 1996: The Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda and the Union Minister for Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh jointly inaugurated the one-day National Conference on provisions of the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act 1996 (PESA) in New Delhi. PESA seeks to protect the […]
