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SC Panel Recommendations on Prison Reforms
Why in News The Supreme Court appointed Justice Amitava Roy (retd.) Committee has given recommendations to reform prisons. The Court appointed...
06 Feb 2020 Judiciary
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Agrochemical Spraying through Drones Illegal
Why in News Recently, the Union Government has clarified that drone-spraying is illegal as per the Insecticides Act, 1968. This clarification has...
01 Feb 2020 Judiciary
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Fundamental Rights and OCI Cardholders
Why in News Recently, the Union government has told the Delhi High Court that Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders do not enjoy fundamental...
01 Feb 2020 Judiciary
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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 Judiciary
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Curbing Criminalisation of Politics
This article is based on “Crime and politics: on political candidates with criminal records” which was published in The Hindu on...
28 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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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 Judiciary
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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 Judiciary
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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 Judiciary
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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 Judiciary
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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 Judiciary
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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 Judiciary
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Why in News Recently, the fourth edition of ‘The Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics’ was published by Project 39A of National Law...
18 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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Kerala Challenges Constitutionality of CAA
Why in News Kerala has become the first state to move the Supreme Court challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 - CAA, 2019. The...
15 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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Why in News The Supreme Court has recently held that a citizen’s right to own private property is a human right. The case was of an...
13 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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SC’s Verdict on Curbs Imposed in J&K
Why in News The Supreme Court has recently given its ruling on the Kashmir lockdown and communications shutdown cases. The cases were also...
11 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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States’ Prerogative to Provide 10% Reservation
Why in News Recently, the Centre informed the Supreme Court that it would be the States’ prerogative to provide 10% economic reservation in...
10 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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Why in News Recently the two Nirbhaya case convicts have filed Curative petitions in the Supreme Court. Earlier, the convicts had filed a mercy...
10 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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Mandatory Re-grassing After Mining: SC
Why in News Recently, the Supreme Court of India ordered the government to include re-grassing of mined areas as a mandatory condition in every...
09 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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State can Regulate Minority Institutions: SC
Why in News Recently, the Supreme Court held that the state has the rights to introduce a regulatory regime in the national interest to provide...
07 Jan 2020 Judiciary
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Children Excluded from Assam NRC
Why in News The Supreme Court has ordered that children excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam but whose...
07 Jan 2020 Judiciary
