Judicial Review In Matters Related To National Security: Supreme Court has made few observations regarding the applicability of judicial review in matters related to ‘National Security’ of the Country. The Court was responding to submissions made by Solicitor-General for the Centre, in the Pegasus snooping case. The government had refused the court’s repeated advice to […]
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Amendments To The Registration Of Births And Deaths Act, 1969
Amendments To The Registration Of Births And Deaths Act, 1969: The Centre has proposed amendments to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 that will enable it to “maintain the database of registered birth and deaths at the national level”. Presently, the registration of births and deaths is done by the local registrar appointed […]
Project Readiness Financing (PRF) Loan for Mizoram
Asian Development Bank (ADB): The Indian government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a USD 4.5 million Project Readiness Financing (PRF) loan to support urban mobility in Mizoram. Earlier, the ADB and the Government of India signed a USD 484 million loan to improve transport connectivity and industrial development in the Chennai – Kanyakumari […]
Barbados Has Elected Its First President
Barbados Has Elected Its First President: Barbados has elected its first President, a key step in preparations to become a republic and remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as head of state of the Caribbean island. Sandra Mason, the current governor-general, is set to be sworn in as President on November 30, the country’s 55th anniversary […]
Operation Red Rose
Operation Red Rose: In 2020, Punjab’s Excise Department launched Operation Red Rose to curb illicit liquor trading and nail excise-related crimes. A year-and-a-half later, with the use of precise tracking and monitoring systems to check illicit distillation and smuggling of liquor, the results in terms of the number of suspects booked for crimes, convictions and […]
National Fund To Control Drug Abuse
National Fund To Control Drug Abuse: The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry has recently recommended that the National Fund to Control Drug Abuse be used to carry out de-addiction programmes, rather than just policing activities National Fund to Control Drug Abuse: It was created in accordance with a provision of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic […]
Public Safety Act (PSA) – J&K
Public Safety Act (PSA): After the killings of non-locals in Jammu and Kashmir around 700 people have been detained in the union territory, a few under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA). Powers of government under the Public Safety Act: Also called the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978, it is a preventive […]
Prohibition Of Electronic Cigarettes Bill, 2019
E-Cigarette: An analysis by the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, has found that e-cigarette use — even on a daily basis — did not help smokers successfully stay off cigarettes. […]
Bhumiputra Bill In Goa
Bhumiputra Bill In Goa: Goa CM has clarified that the Bhumiputra Bill won’t be sent to Governor. The Goa Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill, 2021 that was passed in the Goa Assembly on July 30 had since been at the centre of a political storm. The Bill was aimed at giving the status of ‘Bhumiputra’ to a […]
Fugitive Economic Offender
Fugitive Economic Offender: Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi’s attempts to get the fraud allegations against him dismissed suffered a major setback after the bankruptcy court in New York dismissed his petition. UK High Court had granted fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi permission to appeal against a magistrates’ court order, in favour of extradition to India […]
