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 […]
Category: Polity Current Affairs
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 […]
Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme (DILRMP)
Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme (DILRMP): The Ministry of Rural Development inaugurated ‘Bhumi Samvaad’ – National Workshop on Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme (DILRMP). The Ministry also launched the National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) portal and Dashboard. The DILRMP was approved by the Cabinet on 21st August, 2008. For modernization of land […]
Audit Diwas 2021
Audit Diwas: 1st Audit Diwas was celebrated on November 16. Audit Diwas is being celebrated to mark the historic origin of the institution of CAG and the contribution it has made to the governance, transparency and accountability over the past several years. About CAG: The Constitution of India provides for an independent office of the […]
Special Courts
Special Courts: The Supreme Court has decided to examine questions regarding the legal jurisdiction of the special courts set up to exclusively prosecute Members of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies for various offences. There are more than 4000 cases pending against legislators across the country. Of this, the number of cases against sitting Members of […]
