Freedom Of Religion: After six students were banned from entering a college in Karnataka’s Udupi district for wearing a hijab last month, the row over whether educational institutions can impose a strict dress code that could interfere with rights of students has spilled to other colleges in the state. The issue throws up legal […]
Category: Polity Current Affairs
Retrospective Amendment To The Income-Tax Act
Retrospective Amendment To The Income-Tax Act: The Union Budget 2022-23 brought in some amendments to the Income Tax Act that would be effective retrospectively. Making a retrospective amendment to the Income-tax Act from 2005-06, the Budget has clarified that cess and surcharge will not be allowed to be claimed as deductions in the form […]
Kerala Lokayukta Act, 1999 Amendment: Proposed Changes
Kerala Lokayukta Act, 1999 : Proposed Changes The Kerala government has proposed to amend the Kerala Lokayukta Act, 1999 with an ordinance, a move that has drawn criticism from the opposition. The proposed ordinance envisages to limit the powers of the anti-corruption watchdog. The Kerala cabinet has recommended to the Governor that he promulgates the […]
Contempt Of Court
Contempt Of Court: Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana has agreed to immediately list for hearing a petition to initiate contempt action against Haryana authorities for not reining in ‘hooligans’ who have created an ‘atmosphere of communal hatred and terror’ for worshippers offering Friday prayers in Gurugram. The petition condemned the inaction of the Haryana […]
Supreme Court on Suspension Of MLAs
Suspension Of MLAs: The Supreme Court has set aside the one-year suspension of 12 BJP MLAs from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The Supreme Court held that suspension for a year was ‘unconstitutional, substantively illegal and irrational’. The MLAs were suspended for misbehaviour in the Assembly pertaining to disclosure of data regarding OBCs. The challenge to […]
Supreme Court Refused To Lay Down The Yardstick For Reservation
Supreme Court (SC) Refused To Lay Down The Yardstick For Reservation: The Supreme Court (SC) refused to lay down the “yardstick” for determining the inadequacy of representation for granting reservation in promotions for Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates in government jobs. The court’s judgement came in a batch of petitions from across the country […]
Non-Renewal of FCRA Registration
Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA): The Supreme Court asked 6,000-odd NGOs to go back to the government for redressal of their grievances on non-renewal of their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration. The FCRA was enacted during the Emergency in 1976 in an atmosphere of apprehension that foreign powers were interfering in India’s affairs by […]
Draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 22: Delhi University
Draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 22: Delhi University The Delhi University (DU) on Friday released a draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 22 (UGCF-2022) keeping in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) and has invited feedback on it from stakeholders till January 30. The new UG curriculum will come into force from next year when the university […]
Criminal Justice Reform: Slow Pace
Criminal Justice Reforms: Experts have expressed “serious concerns over the slow pace of reforms in the criminal justice system to ensure speedy justice”. The delay in disposal of cases was leading to human rights violations of the under-trials and convicts. Despite the Supreme Court’s directions on police reforms, there had been hardly any changes on […]
Indian Environment Service (IES)
Indian Environment Service (IES): The Supreme Court asked the Centre to establish a dedicated Indian Environment Service (IES) at the all-India level. The creation of IES was recommended by a committee headed by former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian in 2014. It will act as an expert group in the public and quasi-governmental sectors over the […]
