2022-11-18T11:00:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: The Hindu|
Background A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Monday, in a 3:2 majority decision, upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, which provides 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) of society but excludes the “poorest of poor” among Scheduled Castes [...]
2022-11-08T15:23:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: The Indian Express|
Background Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, Gujarat on October 29 joined the list of BJP-ruled States that have called for implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). […]
2022-10-13T15:44:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Background The Supreme Court of India has sought the most recent position of the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order of 1950, which allows only members of Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist religions to be recognised as SCs. […]
2022-10-01T18:13:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The draft Telecommunication Bill, 2022 Background The Ministry of Communications released a draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 last week for public comments. Since then, the draft has generated a significant amount of discussion on various changes that it proposes to make to the current telecom regulatory framework. [...]
2022-08-22T21:12:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
In her first Independence Day address to the nation as President, Droupadi Murmu, the 15th President of India, said that the next milestone for the country would be to complete 100 years of Independence and that by the year 2047, India would give shape to the vision of our Constitution makers, including [...]
2022-07-25T14:21:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Context:-Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Saturday said the media is running “kangaroo courts” on issues even experienced judges find difficult to decide. He said. ill-informed, biased and agenda-driven debates in the media on issues pending in courts are affecting justice delivery Media has breached its responsibility, taking democracy [...]
2022-08-30T13:18:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
History of Sedition Law in India First introduced in 1870, the primary objective of the sedition law was to deal with “increasing Wahabi activities” in India during those times as they posed a challenge to the British colonial government […]
2021-10-06T21:02:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: Hindustan Times|
During the framing of India’s Constitution, multiple models of governance were proposed for the newly independent nation. The framers of the Constitution finally selected the model of “parliamentary democracy”. As the term suggests, there are two equally important constituent elements of this model — Parliament and democracy. […]
2021-10-06T20:46:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The official launch of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) started an initiative that will give every citizen a unique digital health ID, linked to a personal health record (PHR). The ID will also be linked to the Aadhaar. […]
