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The Supreme Court (SC) in Sushila Aggarwal v. State of NCT of Delhi (2020) case delivered a significant verdict, ruling that no time limit can be...
14 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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SC Order on Criminalisation of Politics
Why in News The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered political parties to publish the entire criminal history of their candidates for Assembly and Lok...
14 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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Why in News The Supreme Court has questioned the Andhra Pradesh government’s decision in 1988 to provide a 100% reservation to Scheduled...
13 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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SC Upholds Changes to SC/ST Atrocities Law
Why in News The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)...
11 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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Reservations in Promotion is Not a Fundamental Right: SC
Why in News The Supreme Court has recently ruled that the states are not bound to provide reservation in appointments and promotions and that there...
10 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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Why in News Recently, a debate on Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address was held in Lok Sabha. President’s Address Article 87...
07 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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Disqualification Powers of Speakers
This article is based on “Course correction for the Speaker’s office” which was published in The Hindu on 06/02/2020. It...
06 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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The Representation of the People Act : Part II
This is Part II of the TTP in continuation of Part I of TTP on The Representation of the People Acts. The Representation of the People Act...
06 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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The Representation of the People Act : Part I
Introduction The holding of free and fair elections is the sine-qua-non of democracy. To ensure the conduct of elections in free, fair and in an...
03 Feb 2020 Indian Polity
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SC’s Judgement on Anticipatory Bail
Why in News The Supreme Court has recently held that the protection of anticipatory or pre-arrest bail cannot be limited to any time frame or...
30 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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Guidelines to Monitor Sand Mining
Why in News For the first time, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has released guidelines to monitor and check...
29 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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The Big Picture: Electoral Politics- Need for Reform
Recently at a conference on ‘Money Power in Politics’, the Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu highlighted Indian experience with...
28 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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Andhra Pradesh to Scrap Legislative Council
Why in News The Andhra Pradesh (AP) assembly has passed a resolution to abolish the state’s Legislative Council. The Andhra Pradesh...
28 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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This article is based on “The four phases of constitutional interpretation” which was published in The Hindu on 27/01/2020. It talks...
27 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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Freedom of Speech and Expression on Social Media
Why in News The High Court of Tripura has held that posting on social media was virtually the same as a fundamental right applicable to all...
24 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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Proposal for Guidelines to Execute Death Penalty
Why in News The Central government has filed a petition before the Supreme Court, seeking a time limit of seven days for death row convicts to file...
23 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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Why in News India has slipped 10 places in the 2019 Democracy Index to 51st position. In 2018, India was ranked at 41. The Democracy Index (began...
23 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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Disqualification Powers of Speakers
Why in News The Supreme Court has recently held that disqualification petitions under the tenth schedule should be adjudicated by a mechanism...
22 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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The Big Picture- Article 131 - Special Powers of Supreme Court
Recently, the Kerala government filed a civil lawsuit in the Supreme Court (SC) challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, under the...
21 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
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Introduction A pressure group is a group of people who are organised actively for promoting and defending their common interest. It is called so,...
16 Jan 2020 Indian Polity
