Category: Polity Current Affairs

The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022: Key Changes: The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 has been introduced that aims to improve regulatory set-up by increasing the CCI’s accountability, giving it flexibility and enforcement efficiency. Key Changes mentioned in the bill: A board with part-time members to supervise CCI activities. This would bring its regulatory architecture at par […]

What Is Flood Plain Zoning? The Ministry of Jal Shakti has informed the Rajya Sabha that the states of Manipur, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir had enacted the National Floodplains Zoning Policy. However, delineation and demarcation of flood plains is yet to be undertaken. Earlier, the Comptroller and Auditor General of […]

What Are Supplementary Demands For Grants? The government has sought approval from Parliament to spend an extra ₹1.07 lakh crore in the current fiscal year. The additional spending of Rs1.58 trillion is required for expenditure commitments towards settling loans taken from National Small Savings Funds for PM Awas Yojana and higher fertiliser subsidy outgo. The […]

New Guidelines On Abortion Care : WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) presented new guidelines on abortion care. These, it claimed, would prevent more than 25 million unsafe abortions annually. The new guidelines include recommendations on many simple interventions at the primary care level that improve the quality of abortion care provided to women and […]

What Is One Nation, One Election? Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra has said that the Election Commission is ready to hold simultaneous elections or ‘One Nation, One Election’. Earlier this year, on National Voters’ Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address had raised the topics of ‘One Nation, One Election’ and ‘One Nation, One […]

Amendments To The Mines And Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act: The Union Cabinet has approved amendments to the Second Schedule of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 for specifying the rate of royalty in respect of Glauconite, Potash, Emerald, Platinum Group of Metals (PGM), Andalusite, Sillimanite and Molybdenum. The approval would ensure […]

Governor’s Address: Controversy In West Bengal And Telangana The customary governor’s address on the opening day of the budget session of a state assembly was mired in controversy recently in West Bengal and Telangana. The governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar, was unable to deliver his address at the Vidhan Sabha on the first day […]

General Consent For The CBI: Withdrawn By Meghalaya Meghalaya has withdrawn consent to the CBI to investigate cases in the state, becoming the ninth state to have taken this step. Eight other states which had withdrawn consent to the CBI: Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Mizoram. In November last year, the […]